More than 800 aftershocks of the earthquake registered this Wednesday in the north of the Philippines, which left five dead, forced the population to sleep outside their houses, for fear of a repeat of the violent earthquake of the previous day.
The previous balance pointed to four deaths in a region that is being visited by the newly sworn-in president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., to check the damage in the province of Abra.
The magnitude 7 earthquake on the Richter scale triggered landslides and damaged buildings.
The epicenter of the earthquake occurred in a mountainous area.
The Philippines sits along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of fault lines around the Pacific Ocean, where most of the world’s earthquakes occur.
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake killed nearly 2,000 people in the northern Philippines in 1990.
Source: Observadora
