A 2.5 magnitude tremor was recorded off the municipality of Alegria in Cebu on Wednesday morning. A bulletin published by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the earthquake was recorded at 7:08 a.m. on…
NORCIA, Italy — Italy’s most powerful earthquake in 36 years struck the country’s mountainous center Sunday, panicking shell-shocked residents for the third time in two months and flattening a world famous 600-year-old basilica. Remarkably, there were no…
AN earthquake measuring 3.8 on the Richter scale was felt in Metro Cebu at 5:02 am Tuesday. Robinson Gorgio of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the quake’s origin was located six kilometers deep…
Minamiaso, Japan — Searchers digging in a mountainous area of southern Japan where twin earthquakes triggered landslides found another body yesterday, raising the likely death toll to 45. Some 100,000 evacuees, some sleeping outdoors or in their…
PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador — President Rafael Correa said the death toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake has risen to at least 272. He gave the new count early Monday after visiting affected areas and said it would “surely rise,…
Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama yesterday said he was not in favor of giving tax breaks to owners of old buildings that would need retrofitting to withstand a powerful earthquake. “When you talk about tax-free, ipanghatag ang…
4.7 magnitude quake disrupts courts, office work in Cebu City A brief but strong 4.7 magnitude earthquake shook Cebu yesterday morning, forcing people to run out of buildings and disrupting court trials and some graduation rites. However,…
