NORTH COTABATO – Local government officials continue to ask for donations for victims of the recent earthquake that hit the province and areas nearby and displaced many residents.
Authorities in North Cotabato said at least 10 people died from the Magnitude 6.7 tremor, whose epicenter was traced in Tulunan town which was hit by another earthquake recently. Hundreds of aftershocks or smaller tremors have been detected in the region, according to government volcanologists.
The number of casualties may still increase after several people in other provinces were reported missing. It was the third powerful earthquake to hit central Mindanao.
Last month, the Magnitude 6.3 triggered landslides and killed several people. The Philippines sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a 40,000-kilometer area where large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. It has more than 400 volcanoes and sometimes called the circum-Pacific seismic belt. (Rhoderick Beñez)
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