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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 23 april 2019

Philippine quake knocks over building; at least 3 dead

By BULLIT MARQUEZ The four-story building residents ran out of houses.
Associated Press crashed down when the Dozens of aftershocks were
PORAC, Philippines (AP) — 6.1 magnitude quake recorded. The Philippines,
A strong earthquake killed shook Pampanga as well one of the world's most
three people and trapped as several other provinces disaster-prone countries,
at several others Monday and the capital, Manila, has frequent earthquakes
in a collapsed building that on the main northern island and volcanic eruptions be-
housed a supermarket in of Luzon. The quake was cause of its location on the
a northern Philippine prov- caused by movement in Pacific "Ring of Fire," a seis-
ince, where an interna- a local fault at a depth of mically active arc of volca-
tional airport terminal was 12 kilometers (8 miles) near nos and fault lines in the Pa-
closed due to damage, of- the northwestern town cific Basin. A magnitude 7.7 Workers continue rescue operations on people still trapped in-
ficials said. of Castillejos in Zambales quake killed nearly 2,000 side a collapsed building at Porac town, Pampanga province,
Mayor Condralito dela province, said Renato Soli- people in the northern Phil- northern Philippines Monday, April 22, 2019.
Cruz of Porac town in Pam- dum, who heads the Philip- ippines in 1990.q Associated Press
panga province, north of pine Institute of Volcanol-
Manila, said rescuers pulled ogy and Seismology.
two survivors from the col- "People told me that the
lapsed building, where oth- ground moved like waves,"
er trapped people could Lapid said.
be heard screaming for The U.S. Geological Survey's
help as rescuers struggled preliminary estimate is that
to save them. more than 49 million peo-
An Associated Press pho- ple were exposed to some
tographer saw a third sur- shaking from the earth-
vivor and the body of a quake, with more than 14
woman being extricated million people likely to feel
by rescuers from the rubble moderate shaking or more.
late Monday. The rescue Pampanga Gov. Lilia Pine-
work picked up pace after da told DZMM radio that
four cranes arrived at the she had received reports
scene, where Red Cross that the quake left at least
volunteers, police and sol- eight people dead in her
diers helped out. province, a rice-growing
A child was one of two agricultural region, but
dead people pulled out could not provide details.
from the rubble earlier in Cellphone signals were er-
the day. The leg of one of ratic in the province.
the two survivors had to The quake also damaged
be amputated to extricate an airport terminal at Clark
him, Porac Councilor May- freeport, a former U.S. Air
nard Lapid said, adding Force base, and an old
that at least eight trapped Roman Catholic church in
people could be heard Pampanga, and caused
pleading for help at one cracks in highways and
point. bridges, Pineda and other
"One of the trapped was officials said.
seen waving for help from Clark airport was closed
behind a glass window but temporarily because of
we cannot see him now," damaged check-in coun-
Lapid told The Associated ters, ceilings and parts of
Press by telephone. the departure area, airport
At least 31 people re- official Jaime Melo said,
mained unaccounted for adding that seven people
at the collapsed Chuzon were slightly injured and
supermarket, based on more than 100 flights were
a rough accounting of canceled.
its employees, although In Manila, hundreds of of-
some could have been fice workers dashed out of
elsewhere when the earth- buildings in panic, some
quake struck, Lapid said. wearing hard hats, and