Phivolcs records the strong aftershock at 3:49 am Monday, some 63 kilometers south-southeast of Cagwait town, also in Surigao del Sur. It had a depth of 10 kilometers.
After two consecutive earthquakes jolted parts of the Philippines' Mindanao island in August, a warning of a bigger quake supposedly issued by the country's seismology and disaster agencies was shared tens of thousands of times on Facebook. However, the agencies separately denied issuing the advisory, which has circulated online for years. While earthquakes cannot be