Overview

• Local police said all five fatalities occurred in San Remigio, north of Cebu, after the magnitude 6.9 quake struck Tuesday night.
• ABS-CBN reported four bodies were recovered from a sports center in San Remigio and a child was killed by falling debris elsewhere in the town.
• Rescue operations are underway in San Remigio and in nearby Bogo as officials warn people may be trapped under rubble.
• A commercial building and a school in Bantayan collapsed and rural roads were damaged, while the national grid operator assessed outages across Cebu and neighboring islands.
• USGS logged four aftershocks of magnitude 5.0 or greater and revised the main shock from 7.0 to 6.9, as reports differed on the epicenter location between offshore Bogo and near Calape in Bohol; PTWC reported no tsunami threat and local seismologists urged people to keep away from the shore.