Magnitude 6.2 earthquake rocks Catanduanes
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(3RD UPDATE) Phivolcs recommends that residents of Catanduanes, Northern Samar, and Eastern Samar ‘stay away from the beach and not go to the coast… until the cancellation of the advisory’
MANILA, Philippines – A magnitude 6.2 earthquake rocked Catanduanes at 8:54 pm, Tuesday, April 4, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
The initial report of Phivolcs said the earthquake was a magnitude 6.6.
Phivolcs issued Earthquake Information #2 at 10:25 pm and adjusted the quake to magnitude 6.2.
Phivolcs said the temblor was tectonic of origin and its epice
