TACLOBAN CITY: A magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook Northern Samar before noon on Monday, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) said, adding that no major damage resulted from the temblor.
The temblor struck 34 kilometers north of Pambujan town at 11:39 a.m. Different areas in Eastern Visayas felt the ground shaking.
Rei Josiah Echano, head of the Northern Samar PDRRMO, said the earthquake was strong, but there were no reported major damage or casualties after the shaking, except for broken glasses at a restaurant inside a major shop in Catarman.
‘Northern Samar is safe from tsunami after 30 minutes without rupture and physical movement of waters along the coastlines affected by a magnitude 6 earthquake,’ Echano said in a phone interview.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the quake was tectonic in origin, which means the tremor was produced by sudden movement along faults and plate boundaries.
Phivolcs recorded intensities I to V in differe
nt parts of Northern Samar, Samar, Eastern Samar Leyte, Southern Leyte, Sorsogon, Albay, Catanduanes, Camarines Sur, Masbate, Cebu, and as far as Capiz.
Magnitude measures the energy released from the source of the quake, while intensity gives out the strength of shaking produced by the earthquake at a certain location.
After the major quake, five other earthquakes hit Pambujan town between 11:41 a.m. to 11:57 a.m. with a magnitude of 1.4 to 3.8.
Source: Philippines News Agency
