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(Eagle News) — A 4.0-magnitude struck off Eastern Samar on Wednesday, Nov. 9. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the quake hit 106 kilometers northeast of Mercedes. It had a depth of focus of 39 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
(Eagle News)–A 3.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Eastern Samar early Sunday, June 12. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, the quake hit at 12:59 a.m. The epicenter was 8 kilometers northwest of Jipapad. The depth of focus was 27 kilometers. An instrumental intensity I was reported in Borongan, Eastern Samar. No damage to property nor aftershocks were reported.
Heavy rains forecast starting Sunday, April 18 (Eagle News) — Catanduanes in Luzon, and Samar, Eastern Samar and Northern Samar in Visayas were placed under Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 2 on Saturday at 5 p.m., as typhoon “Bising” (international name Surigae) slighly accelerated while moving west northwestward over the Philippine Sea. At 4 p.m. Saturday, April 17, the eye of typhoon Bising was at 460 kilometers east of Guian, Eastern Samar, moving west […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.2-magnitude earthquake struck off Eastern Samar early Thursday, July 30. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the epicenter of the quake, which hit at 3 a.m., was 74 kilometers northeast of San Policarpio. Depth of focus was 22 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck Eastern Samar early Wednesday, July 29. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 2:34 a.m., had its epicenter 17 kilometers southwest of Maydolong. It had a depth of 32 kilometers. An instrumental intensity I was felt in Palo, Leyte. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
These photos show the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Ambo’s fury after it barrelled its way in Eastern Visayas and Bicol region, making its first landfall in Eastern Samar on Thursday, May 14, 2020. Structures were almost flattened to the ground. Trees and poles were downed. The typhoon’s strong winds pummeled these structures and all those in its path. “Ambo” had made seven landfalls in the country since Thusday, May 14. The landfalls were […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.3-magnitude earthquake struck Eastern Samar today, April 29. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, which hit at 7:12 a.m., had its epicenter 53 kilometers northeast of Hernani. It had a depth of 56 kilometers. No damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News)–Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison is “responsible” for the Eastern Samar attack that left at least two dead, including a baby, and several injured on Friday, the Department of the Interior and Local Government said. For this, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año noted Sison “praised and applauded the massacre.” “We hold all of them responsible for this treachery against the people—Joma and his CPP for ordering this attack, its armed wing […]
(Eagle News) — At least two, including a police officer, were killed and several others were hurt in what authorities said was an ambush by members of the New People’s Army in Eastern Samar. A police report identified the policeman slain in the attack in Libutan in Borongan at 3 p.m. as Pat Rama. The report said the other fatality was a female civilian. Some of the injured were identified only by their surnames: […]
(Eagle News) – Six soldiers from the Philippine Army’s 14th infantry Battalion were killed while 20 others were wounded in an ambush by New People’s Army (NPA) rebels who used improvised explosives in Borongan City, Eastern Samar. The ambush happened late Monday afternoon, Nov. 11, when the NPA rebels detonated six explosives in a remote village called Pinanag-an. The Philippine soldiers from the three platoons of the Army’s 14th IB suffered heavy casualties following the […]
(Eagle News)–A 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck Eastern Samar on Thursday, May 9. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake, an aftershock of the 6.5-magnitude quake that hit the province on April 26, struck 77 kilometers northeast of San Julian at 2:38 p.m. The depth of focus was 36 kilometers. Intensity I was felt in Borongan City. PHIVOLCS said no damage to property nor aftershocks were recorded.
(Eagle News) — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) upgraded to magnitude 6.5 the quake that hit Eastern Samar earlier Tuesday afternoon, April 23, which it had earlier recorded at magnitude 6.2. The quake was located nine kilometers northwest of San Julian, Eastern Samar with a depth of 63 kilometers. Ishmael Narag, OIC of the Phivolcs Seismological Observation and Earthquake Prediction Division, said they raised the magnitude to 6.5 after receiving more […]
