BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews / 28 December) – The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has identified the Philippine Fault-Agusan Marsh segment as the likely source of the earthquake that struck Talacogon, Agusan del Sur on December 26.
In a briefer published on Friday, Phivolcs said the magnitude 5.3 earthquake, with a depth of 12 km, that struck Talacogon, showed strike-slip faulting or horizontal motion along the fault, with the Philippine Fault-Agusan Marsh segment identified as the likely source.
The tremor generated aftershocks, including a…