Disaster drills helped prevent more deaths when powerful quake hit the southern Philippines
Officials say disaster drills helped limit casualties as the quake displaced more than 45,000 people and damaged over 29,000 homes.
- On Monday, June 8, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Sarangani, leaving 55 people dead and 31 missing. The powerful tremor affected southern Mindanao, damaging more than 12,600 houses across farming towns and cities.
- The Philippines, located along the Pacific Ring of Fire, experiences frequent seismic activity. Officials noted that mandatory disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent higher casualties, with schools training staff on incident management.
- According to the Department of Social Welfare and Development, 430,379 individuals across Mindanao were affected by the disaster. The earthquake damaged 29,509 houses and injured about 1,120 people during the tremor.
- Thousands of aftershocks have followed the initial quake, leaving many residents too traumatized to return home. Thousands of individuals remain in 25 evacuation centers, with others staying with relatives and friends.
- Officials expressed concern over the collapse of buildings that should have withstood the quake if construction standards were followed. This event underscores the critical importance of earthquake preparedness and regular disaster-response drills for communities.
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Disaster drills helped prevent more deaths when powerful quake hit the southern Philippines
Philippine officials say that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the south and left 55 people dead with 31 others still missing.
Disaster drills helped prevent more deaths when powerful quake hit the Philippines
Philippine officials say that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the south and left 55 people dead with 31 others still missing
More than 30 people are still missing, according to official information
Over 430,000 Mindanao folk affected by magnitude 7.8 quake
ILOILO CITY — More than 430,000 persons across Mindanao have been affected by the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck off Maasim, Sarangani on June 8, with thousands of families still displaced and more than 29,000 houses damaged, according to the latest report from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). In its Disaster Response Operations Monitoring and Information Center (DROMIC) Report No. 7 released at 6a.m. Thursday, the …
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