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SAN PEDRO CITY – Batangas province officials on Thursday (October 29) reported that there were no injuries or casualties following a series of earthquakes in the city of Mabini.
Lito Castro, head of the Batangas Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, said the earthquakes were different from the 2017 swarm of earthquakes that were longer lasting and of greater magnitude.
In a telephone interview, Castro said that the Mabini disaster risk reduction council did not report any “adverse incidents” during the earthquake.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) recorded a magnitude 5 earthquake in Mabini at 1:25 pm Another tremor, recorded at a magnitude of 2.3, occurred two minutes later. At 3:23 pm, a 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck the city again.
Gerville Luistro, Mabini’s municipal manager, in a Facebook post, asked residents to stay safe.
“We are facing a pandemic, a typhoon and now, (an) earthquake,” he said.
Mabini, a popular dive town, was badly hit by Typhoon “Quinta” last Monday, which damaged several dive boats just as tourism was picking up since the coronavirus shutdown began in March.
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