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Five dead, dozens injured as 7.0-magnitude earthquake hits Philippines

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Updated July 28, 2022 at 12:56 a.m. EDT|Published July 27, 2022 at 7:23 a.m. EDT
Damaged buildings after an earthquake in Santiago, in the Ilocos region of the Philippines, on July 27. (Bureau of Fire Protection/Reuters)
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MANILA — A major earthquake struck the northern Philippines on Wednesday morning, killing five, injuring dozens and damaging more than a hundred buildings across the region.

The 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the province of Abra at 8:43 a.m. local time, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, which originally had listed the earthquake’s magnitude at 7.3. The U.S. Geological Survey listed its depth at 10 kilometers (six miles).