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In October 2013, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Bohol Island in the central Philippines, killing more than 200 people and triggering a number of landslides. The Philippines is located on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, a 40,000km (25,000-mile) arc of intense seismic activity that stretches from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin. LOOK | Photos from Vigan, Ilocos Sur shows ancestral homes and properties damaged by the 7.3 magnitude #EarthquakePH. 📷: PRC Ilocos Sur Chapter, PRC Abra Chapter #AlwaysFirstAlwaysReadyAlwaysThere #PRCLifelineOfThePeople #Lindol /cZYxukLFEL Several houses and infrastructures in different locations are severely damaged after a 7.3 magnitude #earthquake shook #Luzon this morning. People in Manila were allowed to return to their homes and offices after they had been checked by officials. “This was an earthquake that was felt by millions of people – not only those in the northern Philippines.”

They were in traffic, on their way to work or already in their offices,” said Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Lo who is in the capital. In Manila, service on the city’s metro rail systems was temporarily suspended after the earthquake, while the Senate and many high-rise office buildings and residential towers were also evacuated. The Philippines Red Cross said its teams on the ground were assessing damage in the affected communities. Video shared on Twitter and Facebook showed the city’s Bantay Bell Tower beginning to crumble as onlookers flee. In Vigan City, in the nearby province of Ilocos Sur, centuries-old structures built during the Spanish colonial period were damaged. “We don’t have power supply because that’s automatically cut off due to danger,” Villamor told DZRH radio. But so far no casualties,” said Mayor Rovelyn Villamor in the town of Lagangilang. We have received reports of damages to houses. … Right now there are aftershocks so we are outside our home,” he added.Įlsewhere in Abra province, a hospital was evacuated after the building partially collapsed. “The quake was very strong,” Police Major Edwin Sergio told the AFP news agency people in Dolores, adding there were minor cracks in the police station building.Įric Singson, a congressman in the northern Ilocos Sur province, told DZMM radio: “The earthquake lasted 30 seconds or more. Rescuers and policemen retrieve a resident from a collapsed building following an earthquake in the northern Philippines Some cars were crushed by the debris and roads left crumpled and damaged.

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Pictures shared on social media by local officials and residents showed some buildings completely collapsed, with others leaning precariously, their windows shattered. USGS said the earthquake’s epicentre was about 11km (7 miles) east-southeast of the town of Dolores. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, whose home town is in the northern Philippines, ordered rescue and relief teams to be sent to Abra, and was initially planning to fly to the affected area, but later said he would hold off on the trip as not to disrupt the emergency respones. Villagers and rescue workers dig next to a chapel following a landslide caused by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in the northern Philippines, in the village of Mayag in Bauko Ī construction worker was also hit by debris and died in the strawberry-growing mountain town of La Trinidad in Benguet province, where some roads were shut by landslides and boulders. Those killed included a man who was hit by falling cement slabs in his house in Abra, where at least 25 others were injured and were mostly confined in hospitals, officials said. Still, the earthquake was strongest to have hit the Philippines in years. Phivolcs later revised the magnitude down to 7.0. The earthquake was measured at a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 by the US Geological Survey (USGS), 7.2 by the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) and 7.3 by the Philippines Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).

The tremors caused high-rise towers to shake more than 400km (249 miles) away in the capital, Manila, which is located on the south of the island. The 8:43am (00:43 GMT) quake on Wednesday struck the mountainous and lightly populated province of Abra on Luzon, the country’s main and most populous island, causing small landslides and collapsing some houses. At least five people have died and 60 others were injured by a powerful earthquake in the northern Philippines, according to authorities.