Four people were killed and several more were injured on Wednesday after a violent earthquake with a 7-magnitude hit the northern Philippine island of Luzon.
Hospital patients were evacuated from the city, while panicked citizens fled outdoors.
According to USGS, its epicenter was 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) beneath the surface, around 13 kilometers (8 miles) southeast of the tiny town of Dolores.
Earthquakes that are shallower likely to be more destructive. Frightened individuals fled their buildings in Dolores, which felt the full force of the earthquake, and the market’s windows were broken.
Due to its location on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a region of extremely active seismic activity that spans from Japan to Southeast Asia and throughout the Pacific basin, the Philippines is frequently shaken by earthquakes.
Plate tectonics, especially the movement, collision, and destruction of lithospheric plates beneath and around the Pacific Ocean, is the primary cause of the Ring of Fire.
As a result of the collisions, an almost endless sequence of subduction zones have formed, causing earthquakes and the eruption of volcanoes. Oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, back-arc basins, and volcanic belts have all been created as a result of the consumption of oceanic lithosphere along these convergent plate borders.
The earthquake that struck the Philippines on Wednesday was the biggest one in years.
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Hope they recover soon
May the souls rest in peace 😥
Such an unfortunate circumstance. Mother nature sometimes is truly unforgiving. Always tough to live around the Ring of Fire. Quite an apt name for the region. Must be tough dealing with volcanoes and tsunamis often. Prayers to the people 🙏
Hope the others are fine out there. Feels bad when we come across such tragic incidents.
And may the departed ones’ souls rest in peace💔