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At 16:14 PST (08:14 UTC) on November 17, 2023, the province of Sarangani on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines was struck by an earthquake measuring 6.7 Mww. It had a maximum perceived intensity of VIII ( Severe) on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. At least eleven people were killed and another 730 were treated for injuries.
The Philippine Trench which runs east of the Philippine islands represents a major subduction zone where the Philippine Sea Plate subducts westwards. At its southern portion, it runs north–south from the eastern coast of Mindanao to the northern part of Halmahera Island. [4] The convergence rate along the trench varies from 3.2–5.4 cm (1.3–2.1 in) per year. Large earthquakes occurring ...
List of earthquakes in the Philippines. Earthquakes in the Philippines. Tectonic map of the Philippines. Largest. Mw 8.3 1918 Celebes Sea earthquake. Deadliest. M w 8.0 1976 Moro Gulf earthquake 5,000–8,000 killed. The Philippines lies within the zone of complex interaction between several tectonic plates, involving multiple subduction zones ...
MANILA (Reuters) -Evacuations were under way in the Philippines after a quake of at least magnitude 7.5 struck the southern region of Mindanao on Saturday night, triggering tsunami warnings in the ...
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The Office of Civil Defense told TIME in an email that “information on the number of casualties is all subject to validation.”
The Philippine seismology agency had a different reading, saying it was a magnitude 5.9 earthquake with a depth of 27 km (16.8 miles). The Philippine agency also said in a bulletin it was ...
The Philippines islands were formed in evolutionary processes involving Subductions, and collisions. Earthquakes are frequent there as a result of collision processes between the Philippine Sea Plate (PSP) and the Sunda Plate (SP). The slip convergence between PSP and the SP boundary is obliquely accommodated by the Philippine fault system, which is a major left-lateral strike-slip fault ...