A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines on Tuesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000ndar. Unique identifier: us7000ndar. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 04:14:09 / 4:14 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/08/24 / 2024-08-20 04:14:09 / August 20, 2024 @ 4:14 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 126.1398 East, latitude 4.9744 North, depth = 10 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sarangani (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). Event epicenter was 89 km (55 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days fourteen and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 88 km ESE of Sarangani, Philippines. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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