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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 ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — 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 ...
A 7.6 magnitude earthquake has hit the Philippines, triggering a tsunami warning.. The quake struck off the island of Mindanao late at night, with residents living on the eastern coast urged to ...
List of earthquakes in the Philippines This page was last edited on 26 March 2024, at 21:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
Mindanao, Philippines see December 2023 Mindanao earthquake: 8.527 126.416 3 7.6 M w (USGS) Centered 21.3km NE of Hinatuan, Caraga, Philippines, at a depth of 32.8km. [131] December 7, 2023 12:56 Vanuatu -20.659 169.206 0 7.1 M w (USGS) Centered 123km south of Isangel, Vanuatu, at a depth of 48.4km. [132] December 18, 2023 15:59
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.
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.
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 ...