Catalogue of Violent and Destructive Earthquakes in the Philippines
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Catalogue of Violent and Destructive Earthquakes in the Philippines with an Appendix: Earthquakes in the Marianas Islands 1599-1909, this book is on basis of destructive earthquakes in philipines also related of earthquakes in Marianas Islands in 1599- 1909 time periods .This is an incomplete list of earthquakes in the Philippines of having a magnitude of 6.0 or higher, an intensity of VII or higher, and of any significant earthquake which had caused major damages, deaths, and injured people during its occurrence. The Philippines lies along the Pacific Ring of Fire, which causes the country to have frequent seismic and volcanic activity. Much larger numbers of earthquakes of smaller magnitude occur very regularly due to the meeting of major tectonic plates in the region.