A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Sarangani in Philippines. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.2688 East, latitude 5.2413 North, depth = 196.43 km. The temblor was reported at 01:34:56 / 1:34 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/11/20 / 2020-11-12 01:34:56 / November 12, 2020 @ 1:34 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 196.43 km (122 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000cg4d. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000cg4d.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Suyan, Lun Pequeño, Caburan (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop). The epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Glan (c. 24 300 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Malapatan (c. 19 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Caburan (c. 12 600 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Lun Pequeño (c. 11 500 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Sapu Padidu (c. 9 800 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Sarangani (c. 7 500 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 28 km SW of Sarangani, Philippines. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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