Philippines: Earthquake hits Valencia City: 16 injured, mall, stores, hospital damaged
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Philippines: Earthquake hits Valencia City: 16 injured, mall, stores, hospital damaged
By MIKE U. CRISMUNDO
November 8, 2011, 11:55am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines – At least 16 persons were injured while a shopping mall and other department stores, grocery mart including a hospital were damaged when a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck Valencia city, a city bounded with mountains in Bukidnon province late Monday afternoon.
Identities of the injured persons were not immediately available as of this posting.
Sketchy report reaching this region’s frontier and capital city of Cagayan de Oro in Northern Mindanao said that the Roy Plaza Shopping Complex, Gaisano Mall, Baoseng Enterprises and the Valencia Sanitarium Hospital and some Grocery Marts and stores sustained building cracks and damages.
“At least 23 houses within the city proper were also reported affected by the tremor,” said Major Eugene Julio C. Osias lV, spokesman of the Army’s 4th Infantry (Diamond) Division.
He added that the Army’s 403rd Infantry Brigade based in Bukidnon was already directed to help in Valencia City.
Admitted patients at the Valencia Sanitarium Hospital were safely transferred to other hospitals in that city, it was reported by Valencia City Social Worker Jerrys Timogan.
However, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD-Region 10) cannot still establish as of press time the worth of damage brought about by the earthquake. Region 10 OCD Regional Director Carmelito Lupo already deployed its regional officials and personnel here, and OCD personnel in Bukidnon province and Valencia City for immediate assessment of damage.
Valencia City Mayor Leandro Jose H. Catarata already mobilized all city’s department heads to also assess the damage while directing the city’s social welfare office to extend initial assistance to the victims. He also ordered the deployment of social workers in Barangay Lumbayao, also that same city where a landslide also occurred.
The city Chief Executive already mobilized the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
Late Monday afternoon, a magnitude 5.2 quake hit Valencia City in Bukidnon province, the Philippine Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported.
The epicenter of the quake, which occurred at 5:43 p.m., was traced 32 kilometers southwest of Malaybalay City, Phivolcs said.
It was tectonic in origin, Phivolcs Cagayan de Oro reported.
The Phivolcs also traced the tremor at 86.2 kilometers southeast of Cagayan de Oro City at a depth of 12 kilometers.
The tremor was also felt in some parts in Northern Mibndanao and also northwest of Davao and northeast of Cotabato.
Philippines: Earthquake hits Valencia City: 16 injured, mall, stores, hospital damaged
By MIKE U. CRISMUNDO
November 8, 2011, 11:55am
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines – At least 16 persons were injured while a shopping mall and other department stores, grocery mart including a hospital were damaged when a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck Valencia city, a city bounded with mountains in Bukidnon province late Monday afternoon.
Identities of the injured persons were not immediately available as of this posting.
Sketchy report reaching this region’s frontier and capital city of Cagayan de Oro in Northern Mindanao said that the Roy Plaza Shopping Complex, Gaisano Mall, Baoseng Enterprises and the Valencia Sanitarium Hospital and some Grocery Marts and stores sustained building cracks and damages.
“At least 23 houses within the city proper were also reported affected by the tremor,” said Major Eugene Julio C. Osias lV, spokesman of the Army’s 4th Infantry (Diamond) Division.
He added that the Army’s 403rd Infantry Brigade based in Bukidnon was already directed to help in Valencia City.
Admitted patients at the Valencia Sanitarium Hospital were safely transferred to other hospitals in that city, it was reported by Valencia City Social Worker Jerrys Timogan.
However, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD-Region 10) cannot still establish as of press time the worth of damage brought about by the earthquake. Region 10 OCD Regional Director Carmelito Lupo already deployed its regional officials and personnel here, and OCD personnel in Bukidnon province and Valencia City for immediate assessment of damage.
Valencia City Mayor Leandro Jose H. Catarata already mobilized all city’s department heads to also assess the damage while directing the city’s social welfare office to extend initial assistance to the victims. He also ordered the deployment of social workers in Barangay Lumbayao, also that same city where a landslide also occurred.
The city Chief Executive already mobilized the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
Late Monday afternoon, a magnitude 5.2 quake hit Valencia City in Bukidnon province, the Philippine Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported.
The epicenter of the quake, which occurred at 5:43 p.m., was traced 32 kilometers southwest of Malaybalay City, Phivolcs said.
It was tectonic in origin, Phivolcs Cagayan de Oro reported.
The Phivolcs also traced the tremor at 86.2 kilometers southeast of Cagayan de Oro City at a depth of 12 kilometers.
The tremor was also felt in some parts in Northern Mibndanao and also northwest of Davao and northeast of Cotabato.
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