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  2. Bohol fault system - Wikipedia

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    This fault system contains three segments: the newly found North Bohol Fault following the 2013 Bohol earthquake, [2] the South Offshore Fault, [3] and the East Bohol Fault. The North Bohol Fault is located in Inabanga and near Clarin. The South Offshore Fault affects the southern towns, while the East Bohol Fault starts at the SW part of Bohol ...

  3. Philippine fault system - Wikipedia

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    The Philippine fault system is a major inter-related system of geological faults throughout the whole of the Philippine Archipelago, [1] primarily caused by tectonic forces compressing the Philippines into what geophysicists call the Philippine Mobile Belt. [2] Some notable Philippine faults include the Guinayangan, Masbate and Leyte faults.

  4. 2013 Bohol earthquake - Wikipedia

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    The 2013 Bohol earthquake occurred on October 15 at 8:12:31 PST in Bohol, an island province located in Central Visayas, Philippines. [9] The magnitude of the earthquake was recorded at M w 7.2, with epicenter 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) S 24° W of Sagbayan , and its depth of focus was 12 kilometres (7.5 mi).

  5. 1990 Bohol Sea earthquake - Wikipedia

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    The Philippines is usually prone to earthquakes due to its location within the Pacific Ring of Fire, where most of the world's seismological events occur.The Bohol Sea is home to segments of the Philippine fault system, a system of fault line extending from the Northwestern province of Ilocos Sur, transversing through Quezon province, Masbate Island and the Eastern Visayas region, and ending ...

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  7. Researchers gain clearest picture yet of fault that threatens ...

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    To map the subduction zone, researchers at sea performed active source seismic imaging, a technique that sends sound to the ocean floor and then processes the echoes that return. The method is ...

  8. List of earthquakes in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    On Luzon, the fault zone splays out into a number of different faults, including the Digdig Fault. One of the largest historical earthquake on the fault zone was the 1990 Luzon M s 7.8 event that left nearly 2,000 people dead or missing. The same part of the fault zone is thought to have ruptured in the 1645 Luzon earthquake. [7]

  9. New Jersey earthquake calls attention to ancient, potentially ...

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    The fault that ruptured beneath New Jersey on Friday morning was likely an ancient, sleeping seam in the Earth, awakened by geologic forces in a region where earthquakes are rare and seismic risks ...