Tag: Dinagat

‘A little aid would help’: Philippine typhoon survivors beg for food

by Ron LOPEZ Agence France-Presse SURIGAO CITY, Philippines (AFP) – Jennifer Vetonio stands on a road in the southern Philippines begging for money and food from passing drivers. A week after Super Typhoon Rai destroyed her house, she has not received a scrap of government aid. Hundreds of thousands of people are homeless after Rai cut a swathe through the vast archipelago last Thursday, knocking out power across entire islands and leaving desperate survivors pleading […]

3.0-magnitude quake hits off Dinagat

(Eagle News)–A 3.0-magnitude earthquake struck off Dinagat on Tuesday, Sept. 17. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, of tectonic origin, hit 31 kilometers southeast of Loreto at 10 a.m. Depth of focus was 18 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.