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Residents of the Philippines will not envy - they will be covered by the typhoon, it starts flooding, or as this week, the earth tremble from the powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.2 and 5.9. The first earthquake occurred on October 15 at 08:13 local time. Within six hours after the experts have registered 192 aftershoka.

Experts call a series of recent shocks most powerful earthquake on record in the region for the past 23 years. The epicenter of the second major quake of magnitude 5.9 was in the sea off the southwest coast of the island of Bohol. Center lies at a depth of 20 kilometers under the seabed. According to experts, these aftershocks may continue for some time. The death toll reached 85 people, 57 of them - in the province Bohol.

After the Philippines held the Pacific "fire zone" - a strip of volcanoes and tectonic faults length of 40 000 km. It encircles the Pacific Ocean, passing around the coast of North and South America to southern Alaska, then turns to Japan and Indonesia, and ends near the island of New Guinea, New Zealand and the South-West Pacific. It is in the "ring of fire" is the vast majority of the planet's famous volcanoes. In the same place 90% of all earthquakes in Zemle.