Zamboanga City led by Mayor Khymer Olaso deployed a 19-man team to Cebu province on Wednesday, Oct. 1, to help in earthquake rescue efforts. The team was composed of nine personnel from the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office, eight from the City Health Office, and two from the City...
BACOLOD CITY – Uniformed personnel from the Negros Island Region were sent to Cebu province to augment humanitarian assistance efforts in the aftermath of the magnitude-6.9 earthquake on Tuesday night, Sept. 30. Eighty personnel from the Police Regional Office (PRO)-NIR and search and rescue...
CEBU CITY – Still traumatized by the deadly 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck northern Cebu province late Tuesday night, Sept. 30, affected residents are opting to sleep in open areas. In Medellin, the town after Bogo City, the epicenter of the powerful quake, residents are opting to sleep by...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Greg Gasataya said that one classroom each in four public schools here are unsafe to be occupied by students following the 6.9 tremor that severely hit northern Cebu and also impacted Negros Island on Tuesday night, Sept. 30. In a media briefing on Wednesday, Oct. 1, Gasataya...
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) has mobilized immediate relief operations to assist communities devastated by the powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Cebu and nearby provinces earlier this week. Acting on the directive of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., PCSO General...
Aftershocks continued to occur following the magnitude 6.9 earthquake on Sept. 30, with the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) logging more than 2,000 aftershocks as of 6 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 2. Phivolcs reported 2,461 aftershocks, of which 498 were plotted by three or...
Vice President Sara Duterte visited the victims of the 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Cebu province to extend her sympathies amid the rising death toll and number of injured people. “Taos-pusong panalangin at pakikiramay sa lahat ng apektado ng lindol na yumanig sa Visayas (I wholeheartedly send my...
ILOILO CITY – The Office of Civil Defense-6 is seeking an assessment of the structural integrity of infrastructure across Western Visayas region following the 6.9-magnitude earthquake in nearby Cebu province. OCD-6 Regional Director Raul Fernandez urged national government agencies (NGAs), local...
CEBU CITY – The magnitude-6.9 earthquake that struck northern Cebu province on Tuesday night, Sept. 30, was strongly felt across Bohol province. Gov. Aris Aumentado convened an emergency meeting on Wednesday morning, Oct. 1, with disaster response agencies, law enforcement, health officials,...
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Wednesday, Oct. 1, warned that aftershocks from the magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck offshore northern Cebu on Sept. 30 may last for days or weeks. As of 10 a.m., Phivolcs recorded 848 aftershocks ranging from magnitude 1.4 to...
More members of the diplomatic community expressed their sympathies to the victims of the 6.9-magnitude earthquake that rocked Cebu province on Tuesday, Sept. 30. In separate posts on X (formerly Twitter), the ambassadors of Norway, France, and Germany sent their condolences to those affected by...
The magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck Cebu on Sept. 30 may have been triggered by a fault in the epicentral area that had not generated a strong tremor in the past 400 years, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The tremor’s epicenter was traced 19 kilometers...
