{"id":46604,"date":"2025-10-01T14:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=46604"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:38:26","slug":"philippines-earthquake-death-toll-rises-to-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/10\/01\/philippines-earthquake-death-toll-rises-to-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines earthquake death toll rises to 100"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in the\u00a0Philippines\u00a0has risen to at least 69, with the number of patients overwhelming hospitals on the island of Cebu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Injured children cried and adults screamed as they were treated on beds beneath blue tents outside the Cebu provincial hospital. They had been wheeled outside as a precaution against waves of aftershocks overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shallow, magnitude-6.9 quake struck late on Tuesday in the north of Cebu, near Bogo, a city of 90,000 people, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agency said that by Wednesday evening, more than 700 aftershocks had been recorded, although it added most were minor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A drone shows rescue workers conducting a search operation at a collapsed building in Bogo. Photograph: Adrian Portugal\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe can expect aftershocks in the epicentral area,\u201d Phivolcs said. \u201cThese aftershocks could persist for several days to weeks, and some may be felt in nearby provinces.\u201dhttps:\/\/interactive.guim.co.uk\/uploader\/embed\/2025\/10\/quake-zip\/giv-32554wp39NoMQew0n\/?dark=false<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the Cebu provincial hospital, workers loaded black body bags into vans that took the dead to local mortuaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany of them were pinned down by debris, which caused their death,\u201d the Office of Civil Defense deputy administrator Rafaelito Alejandro said on local television, putting the updated death toll at 69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A car crushed by the debris of partly collapsed buildings in Bogo. Photograph: Anadolu\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Richard Guion, 39, his left elbow heavily bandaged, told how he and his wife, who broke her foot, were dug from under the collapsed concrete wall of their home by their 17-year-old son, who was playing outside when the quake struck. \u201cWhen the cement collapsed, I called out to him,\u201d said Guion, thankful his son ignored his order to go to bed early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The damaged shrine of Santa Rosa de Lima in Cebu. Photograph: AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thirty people were killed in Bogo, Alejandro said. In other municipalities near the quake\u2019s centre, 22 were killed in San Remigio, 10 in Medellin, five in Tabogon and one each in Sogod and Tabuelan, he said. The Bogo hospital put the number of injured at 186 so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teddy Fontillas, 56, told the Agence France-Presse news agency he had not slept while he helped transfer the injured to other hospitals. \u201cI\u2019m already struggling, but what we are doing is necessary to help our patients,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsewhere in Bogo, firefighters used excavators to drill holes into the collapsed heap of a two-storey motel, where two receptionists and a child were feared trapped beneath debris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A distraught Isagani Jilig, whose wife and child were among the missing, joined about 100 people watching the rescue. \u201cI will never leave this site until I find them again. As a father, I have to be strong now more than ever,\u201d said Jilig, 41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A firefighter, Erwin Castaneda, said they had been searching for five hours but \u201cwe cannot give up\u201d. \u201cWe are talking about lives here. We will do everything that we can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president, Ferdinand Marcos, pledged swift aid for victims. \u201cI offer my heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dashcam footage shows people rocked off their bikes as earthquake shakes the Philippines \u2013 video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dramatic footage filmed by residents on Bantayan Island, near the island of Cebu, showed a string of lightbulbs on an old Catholic church swaying wildly before the church\u2019s belfry tumbled into the courtyard. Local television showed riders dismounting from their motorcycles and holding on to railings as a Cebu bridge rocked violently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cebu provincial government has put out a call on its official Facebook page for medical volunteers to assist in the quake aftermath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local media reported that authorities had imposed price fixing on basic goods and fuel, to keep essential products available to people affected by the quake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Motorists pass a crack in the road along a major highway in Tabogon town, Cebu province. Photograph: Ted Aljibe\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Earthquakes are a near-daily occurrence in the Philippines, which is situated on the Pacific \u201cring of fire\u201d, an arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through south-east Asia and across the Pacific basin. Cebu is a seismically active area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most are too weak to be felt by humans but strong and destructive quakes come at random, with no technology available to predict when and where they might strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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