Hanoi (VNA) – An earthquake with a magnitude of5.1 shook Mindanao island, the Philippines, at 20:09:37 GMT on February 7, according to the GFZ German ResearchCentre for Geosciences - the national research centre for Earth sciences inGermany.
Its focal depth was at10 km, the centre said.
Meanwhile, earlier on the same day, the US Geological Surveysaid that an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 occurred at 166km area WestSouthwest 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 forGeoscience recorded a magnitude 5.3 earthquake shaking the Indonesian island ofSeram which had a focal depth of 44.7km./.
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