180270 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://mb.com.ph/2023/02/17/23-aftershocks-felt-after-6-0-magnitude-masbate-quake/The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has so far recorded over 300 aftershocks following the magnitude 6.0 earthquake that struck Batuan, Masbate on Feb. 16. As of 8 a.m., Friday, Feb. 17, Phivolcs had detected 329 aftershocks, with magnitudes ranging from 1.5 to 4.2.2023-02-17T03:50+0100mb-com-ph-b5d640f1af9a2af181ca86c278af247920230217035000https://www.manilatimes.net/2023/02/17/news/phivolcs-warns-vs-landslides-in-masbate/1879113Seismologists on Friday warned residents in Masbate to be vigilant against landslides and aftershocks following the magnitude 6.0 earthquake that jolted the province Thursday. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said areas adjacent to active river channels and coasts....2023-02-17T03:24+0100manilatimes-0e138c97ee414c43932b15b2d3f4336b20230217032400https://www.manilatimes.net/2023/02/17/opinion/columns/the-big-one/1879041WE are all seeing what happened in Turkey a week ago — two earthquakes 7.8 and 7.5 magnitude took place within a span of nine hours, affecting areas within a 50 kilometer radius. About 40,000 dead, cities razed to the ground, whether built up with high-rise buildings or smaller edifices.2023-02-17T01:20+0100manilatimes-be1d813c42a001b8b9f116c6b09f4c7620230217012000https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1731031/masbate-quake-forces-hospital-evacuationThe power supply was also down in the entire province of Masbate, including Ticao Island, on Thursday morning, while several government buildings were damaged, particularly the Magallanes Coliseum in Masbate City. “So far, the hardest hit by the quake was Masbate City, [but] no casualties were....2023-02-16T22:08+0100inquirer-f75ef10c84c7bc32ee1a5836efecb59b20230216220800