MANILA (AFP): A deadly earthquake in the central Philippines on Tuesday highlighted the Southeast Asian archipelago's vulnerability to natural disasters.
The Philippines is located along a typhoon belt and the so-called Ring of Fire, a vast Pacific Ocean region where many of Earth's earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
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