A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 99 kilometers (62 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.786 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000npha. Unique identifier: us6000npha. Exact location of event, depth 9.786 km, 126.3621° East, 5.322° North. The temblor was detected at 13:36:41 / 1:36 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 03/09/24 / 2024-09-03 13:36:41 / September 3, 2024 @ 1:36 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Sarangani. Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 100 km (62 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 99 km E of Sarangani, Philippines.
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