Affected families in northern Luzon now over 100k as strong aftershocks continue This handout photo taken from the Facebook page of La Trinidad Municipal Police Station shows a rescue team at the site of a collapsed building in La Trinidad, in the province of Benguet on July 27, 2022, after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the northern Philippines. – A 25-year-old construction worker in La Trinidad, the capital of the landlocked province Benguet, died when the […]
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Surigao Del Norte Governor Sol Matugas appeals for potable water, says quake death toll now at 8
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — In an interview in Net 25’s Agila Balita Alas Dose, Governor Sol Matugas of Surigao Del Norte gives an update on the situation in Surigao city after a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the city. The governor appealed to the public, asking for potable water to be given to their province. She said that aftershocks continue to be felt in the province, the latest of which was at 3 a.m. […]
Taiwan quake toll rises
(Reuters) — People in Taiwan’s southern city of Tainan awoke on the first day of the Lunar New Year on Monday (February 8) to the news that the death toll from Saturday’s (February 6) earthquake had risen to at least 35. Rescue work continued after a woman was pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building on Monday morning and another man was found alive, trapped inside the debris for more than 48 […]





