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Ten deadliest recorded earthquakes in the Philippines since the 1600s Magnitude Origin Location Date Mortality Missing Injured Damages Source 1 7.9 Tectonic Moro Gulf: August 16, 1976 4791 2288 9928 2 7.8 Tectonic Luzon Island: July 16, 1990 1621 1000 More than 3000 ₱10 billion 3 7.5 Tectonic Luzon Island: November 30, 1645 More than 600
Maritime Vessel Shipping line 1 Date Deaths 1 Missing 1 Survivors 1 Remarks SS Corregidor: Compania Maritima 17 December 1941 900-1,200 [1]: Unknown 282 The ferry was sailing to the Visayas and was carrying around 1200-1500 passengers, mostly refugees fleeing the bombing of Manila by the Japanese during the Second World War, when it struck a mine off Corregidor Island and sank in five minutes.
The 5-member Philippines Board of Marine Inquiry, in its 65-page report dated August 25, 2008 (submitted to the Maritime Industry Authority or Marina), found PSACC and its captain liable for the MV Princess of the Stars June 21 maritime tragedy. The BMI recommended that Marina “consider the suspension of the Certificate of Public Convenience ...
17 March 2018 – 2018 Philippines Piper PA-23 crash. A Piper PA-23 Apache crashed into a residential area in Plaridel, Bulacan, killing all five people (three passengers and two pilots) on board and five others on the ground. [26] [27] 1 September 2019 – 2019 Philippines Beechcraft King Air crash.
On January 6, 1967, two Catholic pilgrimage buses collided on a mountainous road near a reinforced timber bridge in the rural town of Indang, Cavite, Philippines.. Subsequently, they plunged off a cliff, killing more than 80 people, [b] the majority being women and children, and injuring the remaining passengers, making it one of the world's worst road accidents and disasters and the worst in ...
The Bocaue pagoda tragedy was a fatal accident that occurred on July 2, 1993, during the Bocaue Pagoda Festival in Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines.The accident was the result of the festivities' centerpiece – a floating pagoda – sinking, which led to the deaths of more than 200 people.
The Resorts World Manila attack was an attack that took place at the Resorts World Manila (now Newport World Resorts) entertainment complex in Newport City, Pasay, Philippines. 38 were killed and 70 were injured when a gunman caused a stampede after he set fire to casino tables and slot machine chairs around midnight on June 2, 2017.
About 6,000 U.S. Army and Marine Corps troops were in the Philippines for an annual bilateral exercise. [7] The US government also donated $100,000 worth of disaster equipment to the Philippine National Red Cross. USAID turned over 29 million pesos (about $560,000) worth of food and non-food items. [8]