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2019 Luzon earthquake. / 14.99°N 120.35°E / 14.99; 120.35. On April 22, 2019, at 05:11:09 p.m. ( PST ), an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1M w [6] struck the island of Luzon in the Philippines, leaving at least 18 dead, three missing and injuring at least 256 others. Despite the fact that the epicenter was in Zambales, most of the ...
The Bataan Death March[ a] was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 75,000 [ 1] American and Filipino prisoners of war (POW) from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando . The transfer began on 9 April 1942 after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines ...
Typhoon Imbudo (Harurot) impacting northern Luzon on July 22, 2003. May 26–28, 2003: Tropical Storm Linfa (Chedeng) and its slow moment caused severe flooding and torrential rainfall to most of Luzon. 41 people died in total from the storm. June 2, 2003: Tropical Storm Nangka (Dodong) passes the extreme Northern Luzon.
April 7 – Roxanne Baeyens, a 22-year-old Filipino-Belgian beauty representing Baguio, is crowned Face of Tourism Philippines 2019. [ 343 ] April 17 – Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is named Time magazine 's most influential people of 2019, along with some prominent music personalities, government officials and world leaders.
At 14:11 PST (06:11 UTC) on December 15, 2019, the province of Davao del Sur on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines was struck by an earthquake measuring 6.8 Mww. It had a maximum perceived intensity of VII ( Very strong) on the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale. [ 2] At least 13 people were killed and another 210 injured.
Taal Volcano in Batangas, Philippines began to erupt on January 12, 2020, when a phreatomagmatic eruption from its main crater spewed ashes over Calabarzon, Metro Manila, and some parts of Central Luzon and Ilocos Region, resulting in the suspension of school classes, work schedules, and flights in the area, as well as temporarily drying up Taal Main Crater Lake and destroying Vulcan Point, an ...
It envisions the Philippines to go "fully migrated to digital TV" in three to five years (2019-2021). [68] February 2017. The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) officially started the switchover from Analog to Digital. DICT also moves the schedule for the total shut-off of analog TV services to the year 2023. [1] [2]
For Senate and party-list elections: February 12 to May 11, 2019. For district congressional and local elections: March 29 to May 11, 2019. Substitution of candidates: November 30 to 12:00 p.m. of May 13, 2019. Election silence: April 18 to 19 and May 12 to 13, 2019. Election day: May 13, 2019. Deadline of filing of expenses: June 12, 2019.