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See also http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/oct/15/dead-philippines-earthquake-video
Deadly earthquake hits PhilippinesBuilding collapses claim lives in Cebu province during magnitude 7.2 quake centred deep under Boho island
Kate Hodal, south-east Asia correspondent
theguardian.com, Tuesday 15 October 2013 05.53 BST
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake in the central Philippines has killed at least 32 people and caused widespread damage to buildings and markets.
The quake was centred within 2 miles of Carmen town on the popular beach island of Bohol, north of Mindanao. Five people died in a stampede in nearby Cebu, where the belltower of the country's oldest church collapsed.
Five more people were killed when part of a fish market collapsed in Cebu city, just across the strait from the quake's epicentre. Two more died and 19 were injured when the roof of a market in Mandaue caved in. Dozens more were injured.
Pictures broadcast on local TV stations showed a collapsed two-storey concrete building with media reporting that an eight-month-old baby and another person had been pulled out alive.
Many of the central Philippines' historic buildings were damaged. In Loboc town, south-west of Carmen, a 17th-century limestone church was left in ruins, while in Bohol a 400-year-old tower collapsed on to surrounding buildings*1. Other Spanish colonial churches, including Cebu's 16th-century Basilica of the Holy Child – the Philippines' oldest church, which lost its belltower – were also reportedly damaged.
Authorities initially struggled to reach areas affected by the quake, local media said, as power lines were knocked down and phone networks taken out.
Cebu province and nearby Bohol are home to nearly 4 million people combined and are popular with local and foreign tourists, who visit the region's beaches and Chocolate Hills.
Authorities said casualties may have been limited by Tuesday being a national holiday. "It's fortunate that many offices and schools are closed due to the holiday," said Jade Ponce, assistant mayor of Cebu city.
Patients in the city's hospitals – some of whom ran into the streets during aftershocks – had been evacuated to open spaces including basketball courts, Ponce said. They would be moved back in "as soon as the buildings are declared safe".
Vilma Yorong, a Bohol provincial government employee, said she was in a village hall in Maribojoc town when "the lights suddenly went out and we felt the earthquake".
"We ran out of the building, and outside we hugged trees because the tremors were so strong," she told Associated Press by phone. "When the shaking stopped I ran to the street and there I saw several injured people. Some were saying their church [had] collapsed."
She and the others ran up a mountain, fearing a tsunami would follow the quake. "Minutes after the earthquake people were pushing each other to go up the hill," she said.
Earthquakes are common in the Philippines, an archipelago of more than 7,100 islands that lies on the Pacific "ring of fire". Three other earthquakes have struck Bohol in recent years, the largest being a 6.9-magnitude quake last year.
Experts warned that while there was no threat of a resulting tsunami, residents should beware of landslides, particularly in the south-west of Bohol.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/15/philippines-earthquake-magnitude-7-4-kills
震源地のボホール島については、
ボホール州政府
http://www.bohol.gov.ph/ *2
Wikipedia（英語）
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohol_%28island%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohol_Province
（日本語）
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E5%B3%B6
日本での報道。『日刊スポーツ』（共同通信）；
最初に引用した『ガーディアン』の記事と比べて、「マグニチュード」が0.1少ない。
フィリピン南部でＭ７・１の地震
米地質調査所（ＵＳＧＳ）によると、フィリピン南部ボホール島で１５日午前８時１２分（日本時間同９時１２分）、マグニチュード（Ｍ）７・１の地震があった。震源の深さは推定２０キロ。ＵＳＧＳは当初、地震の規模をＭ７・４としていた。
ロイター通信は災害当局の情報として、地震の後、ボホール島でビルが崩壊し、４人が死亡したと伝えた。ただ、ビルが崩壊したのはセブ島だとの情報もある。
在マニラの日本大使館によると、１５日午前１０時（日本時間同１１時）すぎの時点で、日本人の死者やけが人は確認されていない。
ボホール島では地震件発生後、電話がかかりにくくなっている。震源地から北に約１００キロ離れたセブ島のセブ市で英会話学校を経営する藤岡頼光さん（４８）は「突然突き上げるような揺れがあり、学校が入居するビルの天井パネルが落ちてきたり、トイレのタイルが一部崩壊したりした。生徒の一部が動揺したが、ビルから全員避難し無事だった」と話している。（共同）
［2013年10月15日11時29分］
http://www.nikkansports.com/general/news/f-gn-tp1-20131015-1204443.html
