{"id":98498,"date":"2017-04-15T22:59:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T02:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=98498"},"modified":"2025-03-07T09:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:51:24","slug":"magnitude-5-2-quake-jolts-wao-lanao-del-sur-on-easter-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/15\/magnitude-5-2-quake-jolts-wao-lanao-del-sur-on-easter-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 5.2 quake jolts Wao, Lanao del Sur on Easter Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98499\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ph_locator_map_lanao_del_sur.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98499\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ph_locator_map_lanao_del_sur.png\" alt=\"In its bulletin, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the strongest among the seven aftershocks of the magnitude 6.0 earthquake on Holy Wednesday occurred at 4:40 a.m. Sunday, recorded at magnitude 5.<\/p srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ph_locator_map_lanao_del_sur.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ph_locator_map_lanao_del_sur-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cefixime online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islington-chiropractic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cefixime.html\">https:\/\/www.islington-chiropractic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cefixime.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy strattera online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islington-chiropractic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/strattera.html\">https:\/\/www.islington-chiropractic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/strattera.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>2. (Photo: Eugene Alvin Villar\/ Wikipedia)&#8221; width=&#8221;300&#8243; height=&#8221;440&#8243; \/><\/a> In its bulletin, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the strongest among the seven aftershocks of the magnitude 6.0 earthquake on Holy Wednesday occurred at 4:40 a.m. Sunday, recorded at magnitude 5.2. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\">Eugene Alvin Villar\/ Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>COTABATO CITY\u2013Seven more aftershocks greeted the people of Wao, Lanao del Sur and its surrounding areas on Easter Sunday, with the first happening at 1:26 a.m. with magnitude 2.3, the state volcanology office said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cipro online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islington-chiropractic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cipro.html\">https:\/\/www.islington-chiropractic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cipro.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In its bulletin, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the strongest among the seven aftershocks of the magnitude 6.0 earthquake on Holy Wednesday occurred at 4:40 a.m. Sunday, recorded at magnitude 5.2.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this, the seismologists recorded a magnitude 4.3 at 4:37 a.m. immediately followed by magnitude 3.3 at 4:48 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>All were tectonic in origin and traced between 12 to 24 kilometers from Wao.<\/p>\n<p>The magnitude 5.2 was felt at Intensity 5 in Wao, Lanao Del Sur; Intensity 4 &#8211; Kalilangan, Bukidnon; Intensity III &#8211; Cotabato City; Intensity 2 &#8211; Cagayan De Oro City; Pangantucan, Maramag, Valencia City and Quezon, Bukidnon<\/p>\n<p>Phivolcs said no casualty was reported and more aftershocks are expected.<\/p>\n<p>Since Wednesday&#8217;s temblor, more than 320 aftershocks were recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Wao, a town in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is about three hours drive from Cotabato City via the Alamada-Banisilan-Wao route.<\/p>\n<p>At least 100 houses, two mosques, hospitals and school buildings were damaged by the quake.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the people prefer to stay in an open field for fear of more aftershocks happening.<\/p>\n<p>On Black Saturday, workers of the Office of Civil Defense in the ARMM distributed tents and water containers for the displaced families.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Church in Wao has appealed to the public for safe drinking water for the quake victims as sources of water had been affected by small landslides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COTABATO CITY\u2013Seven more aftershocks greeted the people of Wao, Lanao del Sur and its surrounding areas on Easter Sunday, with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":98499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[15055,417,10966,17970],"class_list":["post-98498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-aftershocks","tag-earthquake","tag-lanao-del-sur","tag-wao","mauthors-edwin-o-fernandez","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98498","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287588,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98498\/revisions\/287588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}