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Quakes rattle N. Cotabato

John Unson, Pia Lee-Brago - The Philippine Star
September 21, 2014 | 12:00am

NORTH COTABATO, Philippines – Earthquakes of magnitudes 5 and 4.7 rattled parts of North Cotabato yesterday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.

Milo Tabique, assistant chief of Phivolcs office in Central Mindanao, said the magnitude-4.7 quake was recorded at 5:59 a.m. some 15 kilometers southeast of Makilala town.

The second occurred at 12:26 p.m., some 14 kilometers southwest of Kidapawan City.

Both quakes were tectonic in origin.

No one was reported injured or killed in the tremors.  

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