DAVAO CITY—No significant damage has so far been reported after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck southeast of Jose Abad Santos, Davao Occidental Thursday night.
Officials from Jose Abad Santos and the cities of Davao, General Santos and Digos said they made a quick assessment of existing structures, especially those that already incurred damages from the series of quakes that rocked this part of Mindanao in 2019, but did not notice any serious damage.
Last Thursday’s earthquake, which the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismography (Phivolcs) found to be tectonic in origin and had a depth of focus of 116 kilometers, occured more than a year after…
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