On March 17th...
M7.5 - Luzon, Philippines, 1973
This earthquake killed 14, injured 100, and caused an estimated $2 million in damage. The cities of Lopez and Calauag were hardest hit with 78 buildings destroyed. Two people were killed at Hondagua when a concrete wall of a movie house collapsed. Crowds in movie houses elsewhere stampeded. The Philippine National Railroad suspended operations along its Manila to Legaspi line due to damage. In Manila some plaster fell and guests of a major hotel ran into the streets. One man was injured leaping from his second-story apartment.
Philippine fault ruptured across Tayabas Bay with left-lateral displacement of 1.85 m on the north side 4 km east of Calauag and 3.2 m on the south side whre it crossed the shoreline south of Guinayangran.
From Significant Earthquakes of the World 1973, Earthquake Information Bulletin, Volume 5, Number 3, and United States Earthquakes, 1973.
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