A strong earthquake struck offshore in the southern Philippines in early August, jolting coastal communities and reminding one of the most seismically restless nations on Earth of the fault system it lives on top of.

Thousands have died in powerful earthquakes this year. Six such events show that the magnitude of the quake is not the only factor determining the scale of the disaster.

MANILA: A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck off the southern Philippines on Wednesday (Aug 5), the United States Geological Survey said.The quake, which hit 32km southwest of the small island of Sarangani at 12.

The devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck the Philippines last week, killing 61 people and injuring hundreds, was so powerful that it extended the country's shoreline and lifted the sea bed, a new aerial survey reveals. The earthquake's ...

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MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 5.2 earthquake jolted Don Marcelino town in Davao Occidental on Thursday afternoon, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. In its earthquake bulletin,

MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 5.4 earthquake jolted Occidental Mindoro yesterday morning, with intensities felt in some areas of Metro Manila. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the temblor occurred at 10:38 a.m ...