1 of 2 | A collapsed building in General Santos City on Mindanao island in the southern Philippines after a deadly 7.8 magnitude struck the region early Monday. Photo by Emil Elbert P. Prudente/EPA
June 7 (UPI) -- At least 19 people were killed, 134 injured and a dozen unaccounted for after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines on Monday morning.
The powerful quake at 7:37 a.m. local time was centered about 20 miles off the coast of Maasim in Sarangani province in the southern Soccsksargen region at a depth of 20 miles, with General Santos City and the neighboring provinces of South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat also badly hit.
More than 130 aftershocks have been recorded since, ranging from magnitude 1.3 to 6.7.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said all of the casualties so far were in the Soccsksargen region, with 16 people killed, 129 injured and 12 missing, and Davao region in the west of the island, with three killed and five injured.
