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  2. Bataan Nuclear Power Plant - Wikipedia

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    The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is a nuclear power plant on the Bataan Peninsula, 100 kilometers (62 mi) west of Manila, Philippines. Completed but never fueled, it is located on a 3.57 km 2 (1.38 sq mi) government reservation at Napot Point in Barangay Nagbalayong, Morong, Bataan. It was the Philippines' only attempt at building a ...

  3. Philippine fault system - Wikipedia

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    Mindanao Fault – a prominent NW-trending linear fracture zone on the western third of Mindanao Island and has 2 distinct segments, including that which separates the Daguma Range from the Cotabato Basin corresponding to the Cotabato Fault segment. This segment is highly linear and has features suggestive of normal faulting although it may ...

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    Another issues raisead regarding it was the proximity of a major geological fault line and of the then-dormant Mount Pinatubo. [34] By March 1975, Westinghouse's cost estimate ballooned to US$1.2 billion without much explanation. The final cost was $2.2 Billion for a single reactor producing half the power of the original proposal. [34]

  5. 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]

  6. Subduction tectonics of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The force of this plate convergence cannot be accommodated solely by the trench itself; therefore, the activity of the trench is coupled with the strike-slip Philippine Fault Zone. [1] It is believed that both the trench and fault zone formed together during early Pliocene, [2] and have since propagated southwards in a synchronized manner.

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    The site of the fault line before the quake, taken on 6 September 2019 (Maxar Technologies) Visible damage to the runway at the Hatay Airport in Turkey’s Hatay province can also be seen, with ...

  9. A California fault line remains relatively unknown. It caused ...

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    The Puente Hills thrust fault is the same overall fault network that produced the Whittier Narrows – which measured a 5.9 magnitude, killed eight people and caused some $358 million in damage in ...