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The 2017 Batangas earthquakes were an earthquake swarm [2] that occurred from early April to mid-August 2017, affecting the province of Batangas in the Philippines and other nearby areas. The first major earthquake occurred on April 4 at 8:58 pm Philippine Standard Time , with a surface-wave magnitude of 5.5 off the coast of Batangas.
One of the largest historical earthquake on the fault zone was the 1990 Luzon M s 7.8 event that left nearly 2,000 people dead or missing. The same part of the fault zone is thought to have ruptured in the 1645 Luzon earthquake. [7] Further south the fault ruptured during the 1973 Ragay Gulf earthquake.
An earthquake swarm occurred from early April 2017 to mid August 2017 in the province of Batangas. Four shocks in the 5.5–6.3 magnitude range (2017 Batangas earthquakes) caused damage in southern Luzon; they occurred at the beginning of the swarm: M s 5.5 (4 April), M s 5.6 and M s 6.0 (8 April), and M s 6.3 (11 April). [10]
United States Geological Survey shake map for the 2019 Luzon earthquake; a maximum Mercalli intensity scale value of 6.6 was observed in Gutad, Floridablanca, Pampanga. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) initially reported an earthquake of magnitude 5.7 striking at 17:11 PST with an epicenter two kilometers N 28° E of Castillejos, Zambales.
The northern and southern extensions of the Philippine Fault Zone experience infrequent earthquakes and often described as locked segments which are capable of larger magnitude earthquakes. The largest (M7.0) and most destructive earthquakes are generated along the Guinayangan fault every 30–100 years with slip rates of 20–33 mm/year as ...
Notably, on July 24, 2021, the fault was responsible for the Calatagan earthquake, which registered a magnitude of 6.6. The region's tectonic dynamics, marked by the lateral motion along this fault, contribute to the occurrence of significant seismic events such as the mentioned earthquake.
However, PHIVOLCS said that it was a separate earthquake. [10] On August 2, 2024, two M ww 6.8 and 6.3 earthquakes occurred within the area of the 2023 sequence. [11] [12] The December 2 earthquake was described as the first major earthquake in the area since a doublet 7.1 and 7.5 earthquake that also produced a tsunami in 1992. [13]
2017 Batangas earthquakes; 2017 Leyte earthquake; 2019 Batanes earthquake; 2019 Davao del Sur earthquake; 2019 Eastern Samar earthquake; C. 2019 Cotabato earthquakes; D.