Strong earthquakes shake Philippines, Indonesia
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 shook Mindanao island, the Philippines, at 20:09:37 GMT on February 7, according to the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences - the national research centre for Earth sciences in Germany.
Illustrative photo (Photo: NDTV)Hanoi (VNA) – An earthquake with a magnitude of
5.1 shook Mindanao island, the Philippines, at 20:09:37 GMT on February 7, according to the GFZ German Research
Centre for Geosciences - the national research centre for Earth sciences in
Germany.
Its focal depth was at
10 km, the centre said.
Meanwhile, earlier on the same day, the US Geological Survey
said that an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 occurred at 166km area West
Southwest of Fakfak town in Indonesia at 7:33pm on February 7.
The earthquake has a focal depth of 10km.
At the same time, the GFZ German Research Centre for
Geoscience recorded a magnitude 5.3 earthquake shaking the Indonesian island of
Seram which had a focal depth of 44.7km./.
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