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UPDATE 2-Strong quake in Philippines kills one, damages quarantine centre

Published 08/18/2020, 09:15 AM
Updated 08/18/2020, 02:20 PM

* Strongest Philippine quake in eight months
* One retired police officer killed
* Hospital, sports complex damaged

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By Neil Jerome Morales
MANILA, Aug 18 (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck
the Philippines on Tuesday, killing at least one person and
damaging roads and buildings including a hospital and a sports
complex being used as a novel coronavirus quarantine centre.
It was the strongest earthquake in eight months in the
Philippines, which lies on the "Ring of Fire," a seismically
active belt of volcanoes circling the Pacific Ocean.
"My things at home fell down and my neighbours' walls
cracked and some collapsed," Rodrigo Gonhuran, 30, told Reuters
from the central town of Cataingan, which has a population of
more than 50,000 people and is near the epicentre.
One man, a retired police colonel, was killed when his
three-storey house collapsed, while four people suffered minor
injuries, provincial administrator Rino Revalo told DZMM radio
station.
Patients were moved out of a hospital into tents because of
cracks in the building, Revalo said.
Engineers were checking a damaged sports complex to see if
it was safe to accommodate people staying there in quarantine
after moving back from the capital, Manila, he said.
People returning to their homes in the provinces from the
capital have to spend time in quarantine.
The Philippines, which has a population of 107 million, has
the most coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia with more than
164,000 confirmed infections and 2,681 deaths.
The quake struck at sea at a depth of 30 km (18.64 miles),
the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said.
The Philippine seismology agency said there was no risk of a
tsunami but warned of aftershocks.

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