At 10:03pm on 10 February 2017, Friday, a strong earthquake of magnitude 6.7 shook Surigao city and its neighboring places.
The epicenter is located 16 km offshore northwest of Surigao City Strait at a depth of 10 km. The earthquake was generated by the movement of Surigao segment of the Philippine Fault.
Small magnitude earthquakes followed afterwards and there were 101 aftershocks have been recorded by PHIVOLCS seismic monitoring network
Photo slide of earthquake destruction:
Leave a Reply