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M5.8 Earthquake Strikes off Surigao Del Norte, Philippines

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A drum recorder of the kind that traces ground motion onto paper (illustrative)"Seismogram on historical seismometer at Institute of Geophysis of the Czech Academy of Science (12)" by Petr Brož (Czech Academy of Science), via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck at 03:19 UTC on Oct. 29, 2026, about 110 kilometers east-northeast of Barcelona, a municipality in Surigao del Norte province in the northeastern Philippines, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake's depth was 10 kilometers.

A magnitude 5.4 foreshock struck two minutes earlier, at 03:17 UTC. It was centered about 113 kilometers east-northeast of Barcelona, also at a depth of 10 kilometers, USGS said.

As of Oct. 29, 2026, USGS had received three reports from people who felt the M5.8 quake. USGS's loss estimate for the earthquake said, "There is a low likelihood of casualties and damage."

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By Kate AlbrekhtWriter

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