KIDAPAWAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / July 25, 2012) – A moderate earthquake shook the southern Philippines late Wednesday, the US Geological Survey reported.
It said the 4.8-magnitude quake occurred at around 9.27 p.m. near Caburan, a village in Jose Abad Santos town in the province Davao Del Sur.
USGS said the quake was 136 kilometers deep and about 95 kilometer ease-southeast of Caburan.
It was not immediately known if there were reports of damage on small buildings or structure on the land.
The Philippines sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a 40,000-kilometer area where large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. It has more than 400 volcanoes and sometimes called the circum-Pacific seismic belt. (Mindanao Examiner)
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