More than 31 people were killed and several others were injured due to powerful earthquake of 6.9 magnitude in the Philippines. Officials said many buildings and houses were damaged, causing the local residents to get out of the houses and drown in the dark as the power supply was disrupted due to strong shakes. This earthquake is one of the most destructive disasters in the country this year. Earthquakes on the coast of Sebu city of Visay region between the Philippines at 10 pm on Tuesday night (1400 GMT) caused electricity to the area and the buildings were damaged.
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Disaster Mitigen Officer Rex Yagot told the Associated Press over telephone that the center of the earthquake, which came due to a local fault, was about 17 kilometers north-east from the coastal city of Bogo, a population of about 90,000 in Sebu province, where at least 14 inhabitants died. There is a possibility of increasing the death toll in Bogo. He said that the workers were trying to take a backho to expedite the search and rescue operations in a group of slums in a hill village affected by landslides and rocks.
Another disaster-mammary officer Glenn Ursl told AP, “It is difficult to visit this area because there are threats here.” He further stated that some survivors have been taken to the hospital.
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Six people killed in San Remegio town
Six separate people were killed in the San Ramigio town, south of Bogo, including three Coast Guard personnel, a fire personnel and a child. The town’s deputy mahapour Alfi Rains told DizzedMM Radio Network without explaining how the victims died.
Rains appealed for food and water, saying that the water system of San Ramigio has been damaged by the earthquake. Martham Paullan, a 25 -year -old resident of the resort town of Bantayan, located near the center of the earthquake, reported that he was at the town’s square near a church, which was damaged by the earthquake.
He told AFP, “I heard a loud thunderous sound from the church and then I saw stones falling from the building. Fortunately no one was hurt.” “I was in shock and also in nervousness, but my body was not able to move, I was just waiting for the vibration to stop.”
A career living in Bantayan, Agnes Merza, said that his kitchen tiles were broken. 65 -year -old told AFP “It felt as if we all fall. I have experienced this for the first time. All the neighbors ran out of their homes. My two teenagers hid under a table because they were taught in the boy scouts.
The Sebu Provincial Government said that a commercial building and a school collapsed in Bantayan, while a fast food restaurant in Bogo suffered heavy damage. In a live video message on his official Facebook account, Sebu Provincial Governor Pamela Barikuatro urged the residents to “remain calm and go to open areas; stay away from falling walls or structures and to be cautious to the post -earthquake tremors”.
The USGS reported a 7.0 intensity, which was later reduced, while the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no threat to a tsunami from the earthquake.
Earthquakes in the Philippines are almost daily, located on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, which is an arc of acute seismic activity extending from Japan to South-East Asia to the Pacific Basin. Most of the earthquakes are so weak that humans cannot be felt, but fast and destructive earthquakes come randomly, and there is no such technique available to estimate when and where they will come.
Heart-wrenching footage from the Philippines A powerful 6.9 quake rocked Cebu damaging historic churches and forcing residents to flee homes amid booming noises and falling debris. At least 6 confirmed deaths so far.Let’s amplify Filipino voices and donate to relief.#earthquake pic.twitter.com/gmxtaExikX
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