Students at Xavier University (XU) took the time out of their classes to raise funds for the earthquake survivors in North Cotabato.
The city goverment will allocate P4.2 million as donation for the earthquake affected residents of Davao del Sur and Cotabato provinces.
It was nine in the morning when people felt the strong tremors. In a split second, houses collapsed, and the trees were uprooted.
The national disaster agency said that it was a 6.6 magnitude tremor in Mindanao that killed at least eight people on October 29.
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio is mulling requiring building proposals to have earthquake resistance mechanisms.
Environmental watchdog EcoWaste Coalition on Thursday lauded the efforts of the Bureau of Customs-10 (BOC-10) and the provincial government of Misamis Oriental to ship back the remaining 5,177 metric tons of mostly plastic trash to South Korea before the year ends.
Authorities have reported at least four dead, while many buildings were seriously damaged because of the Magnitude 6.5 earthquake that hit parts of Mindanao in the morning of October 31, 2019.
At least one person was killed, while several others injured and buildings were heavily damaged following the third strong quake that jolted Mindanao this month.
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake again rocked parts of Mindanao at around 9:11 AM, Thursday (Oct. 31), according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
Strong earthquake once again shook parts of Mindanao on Tuesday morning, causing two deaths and scores of injuries.
More than 300 individuals, including children, have been affected by massive flooding after torrential rains hit some of the southern areas of the city Thursday evening.
