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The epicentre of the 7.6 magnitude earthquake, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) A 7.6 magnitude earthquake has hit the Philippines , triggering a tsunami warning .
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]
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck Saturday off the southern Philippine coast, prompting many villagers to flee their homes in panic around midnight after Philippine ...
The earthquake struck at 8:43 a.m. Wednesday, local time, near the municipality of Tayum in the province of Abra, with a rather shallow depth of around 10 miles (17 km) below the earth's sur
United States Geological Survey shake map for the 2019 Luzon earthquake; a maximum Mercalli intensity scale value of 6.6 was observed in Gutad, Floridablanca, Pampanga. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) initially reported an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 striking at 17:11 PST with an epicenter two kilometers N 28° E of Castillejos, Zambales.
The 6.5 magnitude earthquake was recorded by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) to have occurred at 4:03:53 p.m. (16:03:53 UTC+8) and determined it to be of tectonic origin. PHIVOLCS recorded the depth of focus at 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) [3] and its epicenter 8 kilometers (5.0 mi) south of Jaro. [4]
The magnitude 6.7 quake was located 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Burias at the southern tip of the Philippines, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was centered at a depth of 78 kilometers (48 ...
Time‡ Place Magnitude Intensity Casualties Notes Sources 1601 January 16 16:00 Manila Several Earthquake duration lasted about 7 minutes. Aftershocks experienced the whole year. [10] [11] 1645 November 30: 20:00 Luzon: 7.5 X 600 dead, 3,000 injured Dubbed as the "most terrible earthquake" in the annals of the Philippines.