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  1. 5 days ago · A few minutes after the last stroke of midnight on August 17, 1976, a violent earthquake occurred in the island of Mindanao spawning a tsunami that devastated more than 700 kms of coastline bordering Moro Gulf in the North Celebes Sea.

  2. 1 day ago · August 16, 1976: The city was one of the hardest hit areas in the Moro Gulf earthquake and tsunami of 1976, considered as the most devastating tsunami disaster in the Philippines in recent times. Pagadian was the major city in the area that was struck by both the earthquake and tsunami and sustained the greatest number of casualties.

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  4. www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph › index › tsunamiIntroduction to Tsunami

    1 day ago · On 17 August 1976, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake in Moro Gulf produced up to 9-meter high tsunamis which devastated the southwest coast of Mindanao and left more than 3,000 people dead, with at least 1,000 people missing. Also on 15 November 1994 Mindoro Earthquake also generated tsunamis that left 49 casualties.

  5. Sep 14, 2024 · 1976 seismic swarm A strong earthquake swarm occurred near Musuan volcano in 1976.

  6. 2 hours ago · Find out if there are any earthquakes near you in the Philippines in the past 24 hours. See the list, stats and map of quakes of magnitudes up to 4.6 and how they compare to the long-term average.

  7. Sep 5, 2024 · For example, the tsunamis caused by the 1976 Mindanao earthquake [7], the 2004 Sumatra earthquake [8], and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake [9] caused many casualties in the coastal areas of East and Southeast Asia.