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6:52 p.m., October 25, 2022
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake was recorded Tuesday in the northern Philippines, the US Geological Survey said. The earthquake was felt as far away as the country’s capital, Manila.
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake was recorded Tuesday evening in the northern Philippines, said the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a member of which said it could have caused significant damage. . “We expect damage,” seismologist Charm Villamil told reporters of the earthquake, which hit the outskirts of the town of Dolores at 10:59 p.m. (1459 GMT).
An earthquake felt as far away as Manila
She specified that the impact on the buildings would depend on their solidity and the characteristics of the soils. The earthquake was felt as far away as the capital Manila, more than 330 kilometers to the south. In July, a magnitude 7 earthquake in the same area caused landslides in this mountainous region, killing eleven and injuring hundreds.
Earthquakes are common in the Philippines, which sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of volcanic activity that stretches from Japan to Southeast Asia and the Pacific Basin. The country’s Civil Defense services regularly organize exercises simulating earthquakes on the country’s active fault lines. In October 2013, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the central island of Bohol, killing over two hundred people.