00:01.
00:16Buildings swaying, people struggling to stand, and a 6.1 magnitude earthquake
00:22rolling through the Philippines felt across an entire region.
00:26Monday afternoon, eastern Samar Province in the Philippines, a 6.1 magnitude quake strikes
00:34without warning.
00:35The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology confirmed the epicenter was approximately
00:449 km northwest of San Julian in eastern Samar, shallow depth just 10 km underground.
00:53And that depth matters.
00:55The shallower the quake, the less earth absorbs the energy before it reaches the surface,
01:00which is exactly why residents across a massive area felt this one hard.
01:05Intensity 5, classified as strong, was recorded in Canavid and Dulac.
01:11At that level, standing upright becomes genuinely difficult, poorly built structures take damage,
01:18and the shaking isn't something you sleep through.
01:21Here's the scale of this.
01:23Cebu City residents felt it too.
01:26Cebu City is not next door.
01:28People there described buildings swaying, that unsettling few seconds where you're not sure if
01:34it's going to get worse.
01:35Many grabbed their phones immediately, social media lit up with people sharing their experiences,
01:42most expressing relief that the shaking didn't intensify further.
01:46Three aftershocks have already been recorded since the main event.
01:49P-H-I-V-O-L-C-S has warned there could be more.
01:54Two questions, everyone asks after a quake this size, tsunami and casualties.
02:00On both counts, so far, good news.
02:03Because the earthquake struck inland, authorities confirmed there is no tsunami threat,
02:08and as of the latest reports, no casualties have been confirmed.
02:13Local officials in Region 8, Eastern Visayas, have emergency response teams on standby,
02:19and damage assessments are actively underway.
02:22The Philippines sits directly on the Pacific Ring of Fire, the most seismically active zone on the planet.
02:28The country is at the convergence of multiple tectonic plates,
02:32and it records thousands of earthquakes every single year.
02:35Most are minor, some are not.
02:38And every significant event is a reminder that for millions of Filipinos,
02:42earthquakes aren't a rare disaster, they're a fact of life.
02:46No tsunami, no confirmed casualties, but assessments are ongoing, and aftershocks are expected.
02:59No tsunami, no tsunami, no tsunami, no tsunami, no tsunami.
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