Explainer: Why Central Leyte is vulnerable to a 7.1 earthquake

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines — Central Leyte sits on a long, locked fault segment that has not moved for more than a century. It is an extended period of seismic “silence” that scientists say is allowing energy to build toward a potentially destructive magnitude 7.1 earthquake. This is the core of the warning issued by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and its attached agency, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), which called on communities in Eastern Visayas to prepare for strong ground shaking. READ: Central Leyte Fault ‘ripe’ for magnitude 7.1 quake, DOST warns A ‘locked’ fault […]... Keep on reading: Explainer: Why Central Leyte is vulnerable to a 7.1 earthquake

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