MANILA: More than 1,600 aftershocks have jolted a southern Philippine province following a magnitude-7.4 earthquake that left at least one dead and hundreds of houses and buildings damaged, officials said on Monday (Dec 4).
The aftershocks included a magnitude-6.8 quake that struck at 3:49am on Monday (1949 GMT Sunday) in Cagwait town in Surigao del Sur province, about 100km from Hinatuan town, the epicentre of Saturday’s tremor.
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