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                    [Title] => Strong quake jolts Zambo
                    [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — A strong earthquake hit this southern port city and nearby provinces before dawn yesterday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.


No damages were reported though.

Engineer Allan Labayog, Phivolcs officer for Western Mindanao, said the quake, which struck at about 3:42 a.m., registered a magnitude of 4.9 on the Richter scale.

Phivolcs said the quake was felt at Intensity 5 in Sikun, Zamboanga del Norte, Intensity 4 in Zamboanga City, and Intensity 3 in Ipil and Pagadian City in Zamboanga del Sur.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 339266 [Title] => White collar crime doesn't pay in the USA! [Summary] => For tonight's topic on our talkshow on Straight from the Sky, we bring you a topic worthy of the title of our talkshow as we literally talk about looking at the sky! Tonight we have the honor and the privilege to have with us, Mr. Christopher Go, a Cebuano planetary imager and an amateur astronomer and member of the Astronomical League of the Philippines, Inc. (ALP) who became an instant celebrity when he discovered another red spot in Jupiter last Feb. 24, 2006. [DatePublished] => 2006-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 339013 [Title] => A good cup in Java [Summary] => YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia – Flying east across the Java Sea on the way to Bali, everyone on our side of the plane cranes to get a better look: an angry-looking plume is rising above the cone of Mt. Merapi. It is a majestic thing, and watching its slow fuming should make any thoughtful observer living close by consider packing up and moving far, far away.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 336667 [Title] => If you join the PCGG, is it true you strike it rich? [Summary] => Tropical storm "Caloy", turning into a typhoon as it churned into the South China Sea, left a trail of damage, deaths and drownings, but what can anybody do about Mother Nature’s rages?

On the island of Java in Indonesia, hundreds of thousands of farmers and their families on the slopes and in the foothills of towering Mount Merapi were yesterday forcibly ordered to evacuate by the authorities in Jakarta as that volcano began spewing forth lava and flame at its crest.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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