Survivors of the two powerful earthquakes that hit the southern Philippines yesterday Friday woke up today, among debris, as post -seismic vibrations continue – they were hundreds in a few hours.
Many residents on the coast of the island of Mintanao spent the night out, because of the fear that they would be buried if buildings collapsed due to aftershocks, after the two earthquakes, 7.4 and 6.7 degrees, which occurred in the maritime area yesterday.
The Philippine authorities refer to eight dead and say they are still valuing the extent of the damage.
In the municipality of Manai, residents cleaned the wreckage of buildings in the morning.
Our little house and our small store were destroyed, “said Ven Lupogan, who lives in the city. “We have nowhere to sleep. We do not have electricity. We have nothing to eat, “he said.
Already a strong earthquake, 6.9 degrees, had hit the Philippines’ island in late September, costing life to 75 people and destroying some 72,000 houses.
Most of the residents of Manai slept where they found – in tents, under linen, in hammocks, in their cars, or layers that laid on sidewalks – as aftershocks continued to shake the area of 1.8 million.
At Manai State Hospital, which suffered serious damage, patients were waiting for them to be careful of stretchers and beds that had been transported outdoors. Engineers estimated yesterday that the building was damaged, its use is dangerous.
A short distance, traders were gathering broken glasses and re -installed products on shelves, reporters from the French Agency found.
Vilma Lagnayo was in a hurry to gather clothes and other objects from her home. “Reconstruction (of the house) will be difficult (…) Money is a problem,” he said.
The Philippine Seismological and Volcanical Institute recorded more than 800 post -seismic vibrations after the main earthquake in Mindanao. The post -seismic activity is estimated to be continued for weeks.
Aesthetic earthquakes are recorded almost daily in the Philippines, archipelago on the so -called Pacific fire ring, an area with extremely intense seismicity extending from Southeast Asia to Japan, passing from the Basin of the Ocean and the West of the Ocean.
Source :Skai
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