NewzVille Exclusive
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck in the island of Cebu in central Phillipines on late Tuesday. The quake hit in the water, was the deadliest in the decade killing more than 69 and dozens of others injured.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey Phillipines faces an average of 1000 quakes in a year. The southeast Asian country is one of the seismically vulnerable in the world.
According to a global monitoring agency data on earthquake by USGA, in the past decade Phillipines has experienced an earthquake in every 10 hours.
Indonesia tops the list with 2053 quakes per year, followed by 1,777 in Mexico, 1,025 in Japan, 734 in Papua New Guinea.
According the quake list U.S. faces 176 per year. The Philippines is a country lies on tectonic subsystem that forms the part of Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’, an earthquake prone areas with volcanos.
Two of the deadliest quake happened in the Philippines were in 1976 (8 magnitude) and in 1990 (7.8 magnitude). The casualties were 5000 and 1600 people died.
