natural disaster
Major earthquake shakes the Philippines
People in Quezon evacuate their office building. photo
© Gerard Carreon/AP/dpa
Many buildings and bridges are damaged, some areas without electricity. Even in Manila, hundreds of kilometers away, the tremors were felt.
The north of the Philippines has been shaken by a violent earthquake. The Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Philippines (Phivolcs) initially put the quake, which struck shortly before 9 a.m. (local time) on Wednesday morning, at a magnitude of 7.3. The value was later revised to 7. The epicenter was in the town of Lagangilang in Abra province. The region is located in the north of the island of Luzon, 335 kilometers north of the capital Manila. There was no tsunami warning.