4.1 quake jolts Zambales
By Bong Lozada
Zambales may be more than a hundred kilometers away from Quezon City, yet tremors were still felt in the metropolitan area.
Zambales may be more than a hundred kilometers away from Quezon City, yet tremors were still felt in the metropolitan area.
Residents of a local government housing project in Pasig City are fearing the collapse of their 10-story building, after they were roused from sleep and thrown into panic by tremors in the wee hours of Friday.
A powerful magnitude-6.2 earthquake rocked parts of Mindanao past noon Saturday triggering panic but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
A strong earthquake struck a sparsely populated area in the mountains of western Mexico on Wednesday, and caused tall buildings to sway more than 200 miles away in Mexico City. People evacuated some buildings in the capital, but the city government said helicopter flights detected no signs of damage.
A 5.4 magnitude quake hit Northern Luzon shortly before noon Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Siesmology (Phivolcs) said.
