Mindanao
\nThe death toll from a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao rose to at least 32 on Monday, with dozens more injured, disaster officials said, as search and rescue operations intensified.
\nThe quake struck early in the morning about 20 km (12.4 miles) off Sarangani province and triggered tsunami warnings across several countries. Tremors were felt strongly across Mindanao and as far as Manado in Indonesia\u2019s Sulawesi island, 420 km (261 miles) away.
\nPhilippine authorities, backed by military and disaster response teams, said they were verifying reports of 32 dead and 134 injured across Mindanao, mostly due to falling debris and landslides.
\nTsunami warnings were later cancelled after more than six hours in the southern Philippines, northern Indonesia, and Malaysia\u2019s Sabah state on Borneo, where coastal residents had been ordered to evacuate to higher ground.
\nThe disaster struck eight months after the Philippines\u2019 deadliest quake in 12 years, when a 6.9-magnitude tremor hit Cebu, killing 79 people. Two more strong quakes later struck Mindanao, the strongest measuring 7.4.
\n\u2018We will not leave Mindanao behind,\u2019 president says
\nPresident Ferdinand Marcos Jr ordered an immediate disaster response in Mindanao, an island the size of South Korea, with agencies directed to prepare relief supplies and evacuation centres and be ready for possible rescue operations.
\n\u201cThe national government is moving and we will not leave Mindanao behind,\u201d he said in \u200ba statement.
\nIt comes eight months after the Philippines suffered its deadliest remor in 12 years, when a shallow 6.9 magnitude quake hit off the island of Cebu, killing 79 people. Two powerful quakes struck Mindanao two weeks later, the strongest at a magnitude 7.4.
\nThe Philippines and Indonesia experience hundreds of quakes each year and sit on tectonically complex parts of the \u201cPacific Ring of Fire\u201d, a seismically active belt stretching from South America to the Russian Far East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mindanao The death toll from a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao rose to at least 32 on Monday, with dozens more injured, disaster officials said, as search and rescue operations intensified. The quake struck early in the morning about 20 km (12.4 miles) off Sarangani province and triggered tsunami warnings …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":98772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98805,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98791\/revisions\/98805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}