KUALA LUMPUR: A moderate earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale was detected in Mindanao, Philippines at 11.34 this morning.

The Meteorological Department, in a Facebook post, said that the epicentre of the quake was located at 7.5 degrees north and 126.2 degrees east, at a depth of 63 kilometres (km), which is 60 km east of Panabo, Philippines.

‘There is no tsunami threat to Malaysia,’ it said.

Source: BERNAMA News Agency