Overview

• Officials reported 70 dead and 559 injured from the magnitude 6.9 earthquake centered near Bogo in northern Cebu.
• More than 457,000 people were affected, with over 18,000 houses and 500-plus infrastructure assets damaged, including roads and bridges.
• PHIVOLCS has logged more than 5,000 aftershocks, keeping residents in open spaces and improvised tents rather than returning to damaged homes.
• The government said all residents have been accounted for and formally transitioned from search-and-retrieval to relief, early recovery and rehabilitation.
• Survivors in hard-to-reach barangays report scarce food, water, tents and sanitation as analysts renew criticism of weak building-code enforcement and underfunded disaster science.