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CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — Mayor Rolando Uy suspended classes from kindergarten to elementary levels and ordered immediate structural inspections of public buildings after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake, initially recorded as magnitude 7.0, struck parts of Mindanao early Monday morning.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the 7:37 a.m. tectonic tremor had its epicenter 32 kilometers southwest of Maasim, General Santos City, at a depth of 33 kilometers.
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Although offshore, the quake was felt at Intensity III in Cagayan de Oro City.
