Batangas town logs successive minor tremors

Batangas town logs successive minor tremors

LUCENA CITY—Two successive minor earthquakes rattled Calatagan town in Batangas province on Tuesday morning. In its bulletin, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said a magnitude 3.0 quake struck at 7:42 a.m., with its epicenter located 20 kilometers southwest of the municipality at a depth of 116 km. Earlier, at 5:45 a.m., a magnitude 1.7 tremor was recorded 19 km southwest of the town, with a depth of 58 km. Both …