Magnitude 7.0 quake shakes Abra, northern Luzon

Abra, Philippines – A 7.0-magnitude earthquake shook Abra and nearby provinces at 8:43 AM this Wednesday morning, July 27, 2022, causing alarm and panic.

The quake was centered in the hard-hit municipality of Lagangilang, Abra, Phivolcs reports.

The temblor is said to be the largest earthquake in the country this year.

The tremors were felt in nearby provinces and in other parts of Luzon, including Metro Manila.

Phivolcs said Intensity IV was felt in Kalinga, Quezon City, Pasig City among others while Intensity VI was experienced in Vigan City; San Esteban, Ilocos Sur; Laoac, Pangasinan; and Baguio City.

Meanwhile, Bucloc and Manabo, Abra felt Intensity VII.

The temblor set off landslides causing road closures and damaged buildings and churches in the said province and elsewhere.

In a statement, Vice-Governor Joy Bernos of Abra said 70 houses were damaged while more than 20 government buildings and at least three bridges were destroyed by the earthquake. Initial reports stated that around 64 individuals were injured in Abra.

Further, authorities in the province said that a villager died after he was hit by falling cement slabs of his house.

Casualties in other provinces in CAR

In Balbalan Kalinga, a worker of rockfall netting at Sitio Bulalayao, Pantikian died while 6 others were injured after being hit by a falling boulder.

In Benguet province, two men died in the towns of La Trinidad and Tuba after being hit by falling debris, says the PDRRMO.

The Philippines is regularly rocked by quakes as it lies along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a long horseshoe-shaped seismically active belt of earthquake epicenters, volcanoes, and tectonic plate boundaries that fringes the Pacific basin.

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