VIEW ON THE GROUND Photo taken on June 8 shows infrastructure damage on one street in Glan, Saranggani. —PHOTO FROM VICE MAYOR JAMES YAP JR. FACEBOOK PAGE
A strong aftershock shook Sarangani province on Saturday morning, even as government agencies scrambled to attend to the effects of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that destroyed or damaged private structures and public infrastructure in parts of Mindanao on June 8.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said in its last report that the latest magnitude 5.3 earthquake was tectonic in origin and struck at 10:05 a.m. Saturday, with its epicenter located 30 kilometers off the coast of Glan town in Sarangani at a depth of 17 km.
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