{"id":225639,"date":"2019-08-04T05:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T09:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=225639"},"modified":"2019-08-04T05:07:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T09:07:27","slug":"aftershocks-possible-from-davocc-n-samar-quakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/04\/aftershocks-possible-from-davocc-n-samar-quakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Aftershocks possible from DavOcc, N. Samar quakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_225640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225640\" style=\"width: 617px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2019_0804_0610_B1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-225640\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2019_0804_0610_B1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"617\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2019_0804_0610_B1.jpg 617w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2019_0804_0610_B1-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Intensity 3 was reported in Don Marcelino, Davao Occidental; Kiamba, Sarangani; Intensity 3 in General Santos City; Alabel and Malapatan, Sarangani, and Intensity 1 in Davao City. (<a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph\/2019_Earthquake_Information\/August\/2019_0804_0610_B1.html?fbclid=IwAR3n6abc54fOOm2RGVojO16AstOSogxGSeHmopDKFvWvsybFhZFbRdwpNfg\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/earthquake.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph\/\">PHIVOLCS\/Website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Aftershocks are possible from the magnitude 5.6 and magnitude 5 earthquakes that jolted Davao Occidental and Northern Samar on Saturday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.<\/p>\n<p>The quake of tectonic origin struck 48 kilometers northeast of the municipality of Jose Abad Santos at 12:10 a.m. It had a depth of 144 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>Intensity 3 was reported in Don Marcelino, Davao Occidental; Kiamba, Sarangani; Intensity 3 in General Santos City; Alabel and Malapatan, Sarangani, and Intensity 1 in Davao City.<\/p>\n<p>In Northern Samar, the quake struck 33 kilometers northeast of Pambujan at 1:28 a.m. The magnitude 5 quake had a depth of 20 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>Intensity 4 was felt in Pambujan, Catarman, Mondragon and Bobon in Northern Samar and Intensity 3 was recorded in Virac, Catanduanes; Mapanas, Northern Samar, while Intensity II was reported in Legazpi City and Sorsogon City.<\/p>\n<p>Phivolcs said it is not expecting any damage from the two quakes.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, aftershocks were recorded in Batanes on Saturday, exactly a week after the magnitudes 5.4 and 5.9 earthquakes jolted the province, according to Phivolcs.<\/p>\n<p>At 7:55 a.m., a magnitude 3.4 quake struck 28 kilometers southeast of Itbayat, where Intensity 4 was felt. It was followed by a magnitude 2.8 quake at 8:30 a.m. and Intensity 3 was recorded in the same area.<\/p>\n<p>A magnitude 2.1 quake of tectonic origin struck at 10:11 a.m. and Intensity 2 was also felt in Ibayat, the worst-hit town by the twin earthquakes that killed nine people on July 28.<\/p>\n<p>Phivolcs also said it is not expecting any damage from the three aftershocks.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines is located along the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire surrounded by numerous active faults and trenches on both sides of the archipelago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Aftershocks are possible from the magnitude 5.6 and magnitude 5 earthquakes that jolted Davao Occidental and Northern Samar on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":225640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ma-cristina-arayata","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225641,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225639\/revisions\/225641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}