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Sources of Earthquake Information for the Philippines

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This morning, around 1AM, here in the Philippines, an earthquake has just once more shaken our country. I honestly didn't feel it, we were already asleep that time. My sister in law, wide-awake at that moment, said she felt it at UP-Ayala Technohub while making a call. And while reading my friends' post in Facebook, I get to confirm, that indeed there was again a shaking in the Island of Luzon. This island feels some shaking not quite often. So when it moves, it would surely be a fuss! The terror of the 1990 Luzon quake, which devastated most structures in Luzon, along with the fear for the BIG-ONE set to happen anytime in Metro Manila has always been the cause of mass agitation regarding this sudden ground shaking. On times like these, my usual notion is to check where the epicenter was. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) is the government agency mandated to issue a bulletin regarding the latest earthquake information in the Ph