Over 1,000 aftershocks recorded in wake of Abra quake

This handout photo taken from the Facebook page of La Trinidad Municipal Police Station shows a rescue team at the site of a collapsed building in La Trinidad, in the province of Benguet on July 27, 2022, after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the northern Philippines. A 25-year-old construction worker in La Trinidad, the capital of the landlocked province Benguet, died when the three-storey building he was working on collapsed, police said.

Handout / La Trinidad Municipal Police Station / AFP

MANILA, Philippines — The Phivolcs has so far recorded 1,071 aftershocks two days after a shallow magnitude-7 earthquake hit Abra, which killed 6 and injured 116 others.

The aftershocks were recorded in the quake epicenter Lagangilang, as well as Tayum, Bangued, Bucay, Bucloc, Danglas, Dolores, La Paz, Licuan-Baay, Luba, Malibcong, Manabo, Peñarrubia, Pilar, Sallapadan, San Juan and Abra.

According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, 19,486 families or 79,260 people from the Ilocos region and the Cordillera Administrative Region are affected by the quake.

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