
On Thursday, a slightly strong earthquake near Northern Philippine Mountain City, sending people fleeing buildings and forced schools to close, informed AFP and quoted officials.
The earthquake, which occurred at 10:30 (0230 GMT), hit the city of 366,000 people, which caused employees to leave office buildings. This tremor came just 10 days after a strong earthquake in the middle Philippines, which killed more than 70 people, the residents said by phone.
“We are going to check for damage,” said Ralph Cabuag AFP manager as more than 300 employees and patients who were given from the three -storey Baguio City healthcare office.
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The government seismological office previously built the size of 4.8 and said it “expected damage”, but subsequently reduced the number to 4.4.
The mayor of Baguio Benjamin Magalong closed the elementary and secondary schools of the city, said the public information office on Facebook.
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The state seismological office said the epicenter was placed in Pugo near Baguia.
An earthquake of 7.8 Magnitude in July 1990 demanded the lives of about 1600 people in Baguiu and its surroundings, the city at the top of the mountains, which is also one of the best tourist destinations of the Philippines.
The shocks are almost daily in the Philippines, which lie along the Pacific “Fire Ring”, an arc of intensive seismic activity that ranges from Japan through Southeast Asia and through the Pacific.
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We will check the damage.
Mayor of Baguio Benjamin Magalong closed the elementary and secondary schools of the city.
On Thursday, the government updated the number of victims since the recent CEBA earthquake to 74, with two other deaths reported in Medellin and Tabogon on the island of Ceb. According to disasters, the earthquake was destroyed or damaged by approximately 72,000 houses and left 1,058 other injured.
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