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12/4/2017 5.4-magnitude aftershock jolts Ormoc | Inquirer News SECTIONS Monday, December 4, 2017 TODAY'S PAPER NEWS OPINION SPORTS LIFESTYLE PREEN ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY GLOBAL NATION 2,017 SHARES NEWSINFO / REGIONS 5.4-magnitude aftershock jolts Ormoc By: Joey A. Gabieta - Correspondent / @joeygabietaINQ Inquirer Visayas / 1245 AM July 11, 2017 INQUIRER.net Like Page 3.5M likes Be the first of your friends to like this Follow @inquirerdotnet TRENDING Roque to Karapatan: Please file EJK complaints in local courts, not in the UN DECEMBER 3, 2017 A red dot points to the epicenter of the 5.4 magnitude aftershock that hit Leyte Monday morning, July It’s inflation that caused the rise 10, 2017. 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Wedding Moments Captured That Will After the buildings swayed for about five seconds at 9:41 a.m., students Leave You Surprised! rushed out of their schools, while customers and staff elbowed each other OMG! in getting out of business establishments. LOOK: John Lloyd Cruz, Ellen Adarna Patients were wheeled out of hospitals. share hugs and… Mayor hides under table Men, You Don't Need The Blue Pill If You More than 20 people who suffered anxiety attacks were given first aid at the Do This Once Daily http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/912444/strong-aftershock-rocks-leyte-cebu 1/8 12/4/2017 5.4-magnitude aftershock jolts Ormoc | Inquirer News p p y g advice.mensnewsnow.com treatSmECenTItO cNeSntMondaer in fyr, Decemberont of th e4, C2017ity Hall, according to City Administrator TODAY'S PAPER Vince Emnas. Slain students ‘full- time’ rebs Mayor Richard Gomez urged residents not to panic as the city was expected to experience more aftershocks following last week’s earthquake. Recommended by “I hid under the table,” Gomez said. Renato Solidum Jr., director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, said the people in Ormoc and the rest of Leyte could experience more aftershocks following last week’s quake. 1:14 1:18 Sports News No damage from the huge aftershock was reported. INQUIRER 7: Krizziah Inquirer Varsity Seven: Tabora San Beda's Robert… ADVERTISEMENT ‘It was so fast’ Some patients at Ormoc District Hospital refused to go back into the facility. 2:23 2:29 One of them was Mae Ann Carillo, 26, who gave birth to a baby girl on Sports Sports NCAA Season 93 NCAA Season 93 Friday, a day after the strong earthquake. Preview: San Beda Re… Preview: Arellano… The infant, however, died just hours after due to cord coil strangulation. “I’m afraid to return inside the hospital,” Carillo said. Jombert Orias, 18 and a student of Western Leyte College, said he and his 1:51 3:32 classmates were having an earthquake drill and psychosocial training in the Sports Sports school gym when they felt the ground move. NCAA Season 93 NCAA Season 93 Preview: Mapua… Preview: Perpetual… “It was so fast … All of us panicked and rushed to get out of the school Powered by premises,” he said. The school suspended classes. Aigili Keny Cuizon, 19 and a Grade 12 student at Western Leyte College, said she stumbled during the stampede that ensued. “I got some minor wounds in my right feet,” she said. The aftershock failed to stop the meeting on the second floor of Ormoc City Hall to discuss the damage in the city and nearby Kananga town caused by the July 6 tremor. Among those who attended the meeting were Energy Secretaries Alfonso Cusi, Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade, Public Works Secretary Mark Villar and Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, also the chair of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. Also in the meeting were presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella, Leyte Gov. Leopoldo Dominico Petilla, Leyte Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez and Kananga Mayor Rowena Codilla. Gomez said the July 6 earthquake damaged school buildings, roads, the airport runway and two bridges She placed the damage at P234 55 million http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/912444/strong-aftershock-rocks-leyte-cebu 2/8 12/4/2017 5.4-magnitude aftershock jolts Ormoc | Inquirer News airport runway and two bridges. She placed the damage at P234.55 million. SECTIONS Monday, December 4, 2017 TODAY'S PAPER At least 4,776 families were affected, 748 houses were destroyed and 1,174 others damaged. Lorenzana assured Gomez and Codilla that the national government would help rebuild their areas. Cusi said Energy Development Corp. (EDC) and National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) promised that power would be restored within 10 days. NGCP said if testing was successful, it would be able to deliver electricity from generators in Cebu province to the power-starved islands of Samar, Leyte, Biliran and Bohol. EDC expects to deliver to the grid a total of 317 MW in the next nine days. The company is still clearing landslide debris. CBB/rga/atm Subscribe to INQUIRER PLUS to get access to The Philippine Daily Inquirer & other 70+ titles, share up to 5 gadgets, listen to the news, download as early as 4am & share articles on social media. Call 896 6000. FROM AROUND THE WEB The Most "Doctors` [Gallery] Hilarious New Burt Photos Discovery: Reynolds My Daily www.dermacareadvices.comOMG! 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