4.8 magnitude earthquake hits Batangas, felt in parts of Metro Manila

By AFP
4.8 magnitude earthquake hits Batangas, felt in parts of Metro Manila
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A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck the province of Batangas just after midnight on Wednesday, shaking parts of Luzon, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).

The tremor hit at 12.43am (local time), its epicenter traced to two kilometers northeast of Calaca town. The quake was shallow, only five kilometers deep, which explains why the shaking was sharp even if the magnitude wasn’t unusually high.