A COUPLE was killed when a concrete wall collapsed at the height of a Magnitude 6.8 earthquake (earlier reported by Phivolcs as Magnitude 7.2) rocked the southern Mindanao region Friday afternoon.
Police identified the fatalities as Danny Ginung, 26, and his partner Jane Ginung, 20, both from Barangay Sinawal, Gen. Santos City.
A power outage hit here and Sarangani for more than two hours after the earthquake.
Capt. Danny Balofiños, chief of Gen. Santos City Police Station 4, said minutes after the earthquake his office received a report about a couple buried by fallen concrete walls in Barangay San Isidro.
Disaster officials reported that a landslide closed the national highway going to tourist destination areas in Glan, Sarangani.
Despite the earthquake, the Office of the Civil Defense in the South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Sarangani, and General Santos area said there was no threat of a tsunami in the coastal areas of this city and Sarangani. With reports ndbc news
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