42 injured in latest Surigao quake
A 65-YEAR-OLD woman died while 42 persons were injured in a magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck Surigao City, Sunday morning, March 5.
The victim was identified as Socorro Celis, a resident of Narciso corner Lopez Jaena Street, the City Information Office (CIO) reported.
Annette Villaces, CIO officer, said responders found her with no pulse when they reached her house. She died of cardiac arrest.
As of 6 p.m., Sunday, the CIO reported 42 injured persons in which 31 are out patient in Caraga Regional Hospital, one admitted in the same hospital, six are out patient at the Surigao Medical Hospital while 3 were admitted in the same hospital, according to Anna Dagcuta, Information Officer of the government hospital.
One was rescued by the City Rescue Team at the City Hardware.
Eleven residential houses and two government buildings were destroyed, City Information Officer Annette Villaces said.
Classes in all levels in Surigao City are also suspended starting tomorrow March 6, 2017
as per declaration of Provincial Governor Sol F. Matugas, Villaces said.
Power supply was also restored, she added but the public has been alerted on the possible flashflood and landslide due to continuous rainshower brought by a low pressure area.
Broken glassdoor panels at the Surigao City Port were reported by Lieutenant Al Caturla of the Philippine Ports Authority of Surigao.
However, he added there were no reported injuries and all passengers and port users are safe.
The city Bureau of Fire Protection said an acetylene and oxygen leakage was reported at Narciso P. Reyes Street when the valve of a tank fell due to the quake. There were no injuries reported.
A video posted in Facebook by Lorenz Burgos Cadavis, who is from Tacloban City, show the damage in a warehouse of a soda company. Cadavis said he was only visiting the city Sunday when the quake happened and took this video upon leaving the city.
Facebook user Che Che Laput in her Facebook post showed their damaged house at corner Narciso P. Reyes street where her relatives including her grandfather, cousin and nephew were trapped.
Their neighbors helped rescue her relatives who are now safe.
Laput said she is grateful and thankful to God that her relatives are safe and her children were not around the house when the quake happened.
“I also am relieved that my children were not there when the quake happened because they are usually around that area where you can see the fallen bricks,” she said.
Last February 10, the city and and the province of Surigao del Norte was rocked by a magnitude 6.7 quake that damage about P700 million in infrastructure, killed eight people and affected 1, 790 families.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) recorded the epicenter of the earthquake 13 kilometers west of Surigao City, at a depth of 13 kilometers.
It was felt at Intensity VI in Surigao City, Intensity IV in Limasawa and San Ricardo, Southern Leyte, Intensity III in San Juan and San Francisco, Southern Leyte and Intensity II in General Luna, Surigao del Norte and Ormoc City while an instrumental Intensity VII was recorded in Surigao City and instrumental Intensity I in Borongan, Eastern Samar, and Palo, Leyte.
Phivolcs said the tremor is an aftershock of the 6.7-magnitude earthquake last month.