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  2. December 2023 Mindanao earthquake - Wikipedia

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    The earthquake occurred as a result of shallow oblique-thrust faulting likely along the subduction interface of the Philippine Trench. At this location, the Philippine Sea plate moves west-northwest at a rate of about 103 mm (4.1 in) per year with respect to the Sunda plate. A finite fault model suggests rupture occurred around an elliptical ...

  3. Hinatuan - Wikipedia

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    Hinatuan is a municipality in the province of Surigao del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 43,841 people. [3] Hinatuan is approximately 44 kilometers (27 miles) north of Bislig, a city in the same province and 132.7 km (approximately 82.5 miles) north of Tandag, the provincial capital.

  4. List of earthquakes in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The subduction zones that surround most of the archipelago are the source of many of the larger earthquakes that strike the Philippines. This includes both faulting along the plate interfaces and within the subducting slabs. For the Philippine Trench, examples of those on the plate interface are the 1988 M w 7.3 and the 2023 M7.6 events.

  5. 2002 Mindanao earthquake - Wikipedia

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    The 2002 Mindanao earthquake struck the Philippines at 05:16 Philippine Standard Time on March 6 (21:16 Coordinated Universal Time on March 5). The world's sixth most powerful earthquake of the year, it registered a magnitude of 7.5 and was a megathrust earthquake.

  6. Philippine Trench - Wikipedia

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    The trench is located in the Philippine sea of the western North Pacific Ocean and continues NNW-SSE. [1] It has a length of approximately 1,320 kilometres (820 miles) and a width of about 30 km (19 mi) from the center of the Philippine island of Luzon trending southeast to the northern Maluku island of Halmahera in Indonesia. At its deepest ...

  7. 2017 Surigao earthquake - Wikipedia

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    The earthquake was recorded by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) on February 10, 2017, at 10:03:42 PM (UTC+8). According to PHIVOLCS, the epicenter of the 6.7 magnitude-earthquake was at or 16 kilometers, north west of Surigao

  8. 1976 Moro Gulf earthquake - Wikipedia

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    Tsunami damage at Barangay Tibpuan, Lebak, Mindanao. Several fault zones in the region are capable of producing major earthquakes and destructive local tsunamis. The two major fault zones that are most dangerous are the Sulu Trench in the Sulu Sea and the Cotabato Trench, a region of subduction that crosses the Celebes Sea and the Moro Gulf in Southern Mindanao.

  9. Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean , it consists of 7,641 islands , with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon , Visayas , and ...