Senator Francis Tolentino on Sunday, February 12 reiterated his call for a review of the country’s National Building Code in anticipation of the so-called the ‘The Big One’ amid the deadly earthquake that recently hit Turkey and Syria. Tolentino said that strengthening the existing provisions...
More than 50 Filipinos were evacuated to shelter in Ankara, Turkiye following the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake. Filipino evacuees in Ankara, Turkiye (Photo courtesy of the Philippine Embassy in Turkiye) Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Ma. Teresita Daza said 53 Filipinos, including their...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez has never forgotten his debt of gratitude to the good people of Turkey when typhoon "Yolanda" (Haiyan) struck his province of Leyte nearly a decade ago. House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) As such, the House of Representatives, through the Speaker’s...
This aerial view shows collapsed buildings during the ongoing rescue operation in Kahramanmaras, the epicentre of the first 7.8-magnitude tremor five days ago, in southeastern Türkiye, on February 10, 2023. OZAN KOSE / AFP ISTANBUL, Türkiye -- Turkish police have detained 12 people over...
ISTANBUL, Türkiye -- A border crossing between Armenia and Türkiye opened for the first time in 35 years on Saturday, to allow humanitarian aid through after a massive earthquake hit the region, an official said. Five trucks with aid including food and water arrived in Türkiye from the...
An aerial picture shows a makeshift shelter for people who were left homeless, near the rebel-held town of Jindayris on February 9, 2023, two days after a deadly earthquake hit Türkiye and Syria. The death toll from the massive earthquake that struck Türkiye and Syria on February 6 rose above...
ANTAKYA, Türkiye -- Softly patting the ground, the tearful mourner bids farewell to the deceased -- one among 1,000 resting in a hastily-made cemetery that used to be a cotton field in southern Türkiye. All he has to identify his loved one who died in Monday's massive quake is a concrete slab...
A Syrian boy searches building rubble for items to salvage in the regime-controlled town of Jableh in the province of Latakia, northwest of the capital, on February 10, 2023, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake. Karim SAHIB / AFP JABLEH, Syria -- Syria's coastal city of Jableh, a regime...
State seismologists on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 11, said an earthquake with a magnitude measuring 6.0 jolted waters off Davao Occidental. (Phivolcs) The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the seismic event occurred at around 4:55 p.m. on Saturday. It was recorded...
The Philippine Embassy in Turkiye on Saturday, Feb. 11, said four Filipino families were evacuated from the city of Gaziantep and they were brought to shelter in the Turkish capital of Ankara as the country suffers from the devastating impact of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake early last week....
Five days after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkiye and Syria, the Philippine inter-agency response team deployed to Ankara conducted a “hasty search” operation on Saturday, Feb. 11, to find survivors beneath the rubbles of collapsed buildings. Photo: Office of Civil Defense / OCD Hasty...
The remains of overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Wilma Abulad Tezcan, who died in the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkiye, will be brought to the Philippines, the Philippine Embassy in Turkiye said on Saturday, Feb. 11. Rescue workers look for survivors amid the rubble of a building in the rebel-held...
