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Phivolcs: 1,250 aftershocks after 6.8 magnitude earquake in Cagwait, Surigao del Sur

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/ 10:23 AM December 07, 2023

Phivolcs monitors 2,491 aftershocks in Surigao del Sur after strong quake earthquake mindoro big one

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MANILA, Philippines — State seismologists logged 1,250 aftershocks on Thursday after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake jolted the area off Cagwait town in Surigao del Sur last December 4.

Citing a previous report of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), the figure is over 300 higher than the 887 logged on Wednesday.

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According to the agency’s 6 a.m. report, the strength of the 1,250 aftershocks ranges from 1.4 to 5.8 magnitude.

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Earlier, Phivolcs said that the 6.8 magnitude quake struck 63 kilometers off east-southeast of Cagwait on Monday morning with a shallow depth of focus of one kilometer.

Before this earthquake, a magnitude 7.4 tremor, which so far killed three people and injured 48 others, hit waters off Surigao del Sur’s Hinatuan town last December 2.

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