Tsunami Warning after Earthquake Hits Philippinessss
NEW DELHI, Dec 2: The US tsunami warning system issued a tsunami warning after an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 struck Mindanao, Philippines on Saturday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
The quake was at a depth of 63 km, EMSC added. Earlier last month, a magnitude 6.7 offshore earthquake in the southern Philippines killed eight people.
The deaths in the November 17 quake were reported from Sarangani, South Cotabato and Davao Occidental provinces, while 13 people were injured from the tremor, which sent scores of people into panic and damaged more than 50 houses and other buildings.
Earthquakes are frequent in the Philippines, lying in the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, which the U.S. Geological Survey describes as the “most seismically and volcanically active zone in the world.”
(Manas Dasgupta)
