{"id":2277,"date":"2023-11-18T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2023-12-19T21:29:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T13:29:04","slug":"powerful-quake-in-mindanao-kills-gensan-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2023\/11\/18\/powerful-quake-in-mindanao-kills-gensan-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"POWERFUL QUAKE IN MINDANAO KILLS GENSAN COUPLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>THE magnitude 6.8 earthquake that hit parts of Mindanao on Friday has claimed the lives of a couple in General Santos City.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Police identified the fatalities as Danny Ginung, 26, and his wife, Jane, 18, of Bgy. Sinawal in the city.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The couple died when a concrete wall collapsed on their shanty when the tremor struck.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a video showed terrified shoppers in a mal in General Santos City hiding under fast-food restaurant tables while screaming as the buiding shook.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The video also showed some pieces of the ceiling falling.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>People were seen running for safety.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Reports said a power outage hit General Santos City and Sarangani.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Disaster officials reported that a landslide closed the national highway going to tourist destination areas in Glan, Sarangani.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), the tremor hit the waters 30 kilometers southwest of Sarangani town at 4:14 p.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Phivolcs said damage and aftershocks are expected,<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>However, the Agency said there was no tsunami threat.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE magnitude 6.8 earthquake that hit parts of Mindanao on Friday has claimed the lives of a couple in General Santos City. Police identified the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}