This handout photograph taken by Vince Sylvan A. Toring, on September 30, 2025 shows a destroyed church after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the town of Daanbantayan, Cebu province, central Philippines. (Photo by Handout / Vince Sylvan A. Toring / AFP)
A powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake jolted the central Philippines late Tuesday, collapsing buildings and killing people on the island of Cebu, authorities said.
The shallow quake struck at 9:50 p.m. off the island’s northern end near Bogo, a city of 90,000 people, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
According to the Cebu Provincial Information Office, the confirmed death toll has risen to 19 following the earthquake that struck late Tuesday night.
Call center employees surf mobile phones as they gather outside their office building after earthquake tremors at Cebu in central Philippines on September 30, 202
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