The devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar last March 28 and successive mild tremors in the Philippines have made many Filipinos fearful of the possibility of the “Big One.” The earthquake in Myanmar had its epicenter near Mandalay, its second largest city. United Nations aid officials put the latest casualty figures at 3,354 people killed...
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Digging for clues to Abra’s earthquakes
Last Oct. 25 at about 11 p.m., my earthquake alert app sounded while I was finalizing the visual material for my presentation at NIGSCON 2022 in two days. I would be discussing the magnitude-7 temblor that struck the province of Abra three months ago at the annual conference of the University of the Philippines’ National...
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Abra quake was less destructive but a complex seismic event
A magnitude-7 earthquake has long been associated with a nightmarish aftermath: massive devastation and hundreds of deaths. But more than two weeks after one such temblor jolted Abra province and its vicinity last July 27, disaster response officials reported only 11 fatalities so far and a little over P2 billion in damage to infrastructure and...
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Fear and trembling in Abra
Like any other tragedy, the earthquake struck when no one expected it.“It was a sunny morning,” Carla Manganteng, 29, told CoverStory by phone from Lagangilang, Abra. “I was in my neighbor’s house when suddenly the ground shook so violently. We immediately called everyone, told them to run outside, to a nearby open area.” Lagangilang is...