MANILA: The death toll from a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck off the central Philippines late on Tuesday (Sep 30) has risen to 72, the civil defence agency said.

The Philippines, located on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, is brutally familiar with natural disasters. However, the tremor that struck on Tuesday, September 30, has proven to be the ...

Pope Leo XIV has offered his prayers and sympathies to the victims of the powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake that rocked Cebu on Tuesday evening and left scores of Filipinos dead. According to a report ...

Tuesday’s quake is the deadliest the country has experienced since October 2013, when more than 200 people died in the Philippines’ central region after a 7.2-magnitude quake struck the neighboring ...

The death toll from a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck off the central Philippines late on Tuesday has risen to 72, the civil defence agency said.

Rescuers are using backhoes and sniffer dogs to look for survivors in collapsed houses and other damaged buildings in the central Philippines. At least 72 people died and toll was ...

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The epicenter of the earthquake, which was set off by movement in an undersea fault line at a dangerously shallow depth of 5 kilometers (3 miles), was about 19 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Bogo, ...