Earthquake Philippines
MANILA A strong earthquake hit the northern Philippines on Wednesday morning killing at least four people causing dozens of landslides and severely damaging buildings officials said. The strongest earthquake in the Philippines past week occurred 2 days ago. Vwataqlfy9ar5m The Philippines lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire an arc of faults around the Pacific Ocean where most of the worlds earthquakes occur per The Associated Press. . An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 61 jolted Batangas province on the main Philippine island of Luzon on Sunday the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said. 19 earthquakes in the past 30 days. The quakes epicenter was at sea at a depth of 656 km. The event parameters hypocenter time and magnitude are determined using incoming data from the Philippine Seismic Network. A magnitude 77 quake killed nearly 2000 people in the northern Philippines in 1990. 18 earthquakes in