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The 2010 Mindanao earthquakes occurred in the southern Philippines in the Moro Gulf. This was a complex sequence of events including three main events (a triplet earthquake ) of M w magnitude 7.3 or greater on the 23rd of July, and two significant aftershocks of magnitude 6.6 on the 24th and 29th.
Ten deadliest recorded earthquakes in the Philippines since the 1600s Magnitude Location Date Deaths Missing Injured Damage Source 1 8.0 Moro Gulf: August 16, 1976 4,791 2,288 9,928 2 7.8 Luzon Island: July 16, 1990 1,621 1,000 >3,000 ₱ 10 billion 3 6.4 Manila: June 3, 1863 1,000 [11] [37] 4 7.5 Luzon Island: November 30, 1645 >600 >3,000 ...
The following is a list of significant earthquakes for the period 2011–2020, listing earthquakes of magnitude 7 and above, or which caused fatalities. Deaths due to earthquake-caused tsunamis are included.
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At 16:14 PST (08:14 UTC) on November 17, 2023, the province of Sarangani on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines was struck by an earthquake measuring 6.7 M ww. It had a maximum perceived intensity of VIII (Severe) on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. At least eleven people were killed and another 730 were treated for injuries.
However, PHIVOLCS said that it was a separate earthquake. [10] On August 2, 2024, two M ww 6.8 and 6.3 earthquakes occurred within the area of the 2023 sequence. [11] [12] The December 2 earthquake was described as the first major earthquake in the area since a doublet 7.1 and 7.5 earthquake that also produced a tsunami in 1992. [13]
The 2019 Eastern Samar Earthquake struck the islands of Visayas in the Philippines on April 23, 2019, at 1:37:51 p.m. (). [3] It had a moment magnitude of 6.5 [3] (M ww 6.4 by USGS) [4] and a local magnitude of 6.2 [5] with a max intensity of VI based on the PHIVOLCS earthquake intensity scale (PEIS). [3]
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