Powerful earthquakes that hit PHL over the years

The Philippines isn't a stranger to earthquakes.

From small quivering underneath the ground to giant waves rolls through the earth, the country and the Filipinos have experienced them all.

According to Darlene Cay's report on GMA News' Balitanghali, then National Disaster Coordinating Council (now National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council or NDRRMC), estimated that more than 1,200 lives were lost; 3,000 were injured; and, more than 300 went missing on July 16, 1990 when the magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit almost the entire Luzon.

The disaster left damages worth more than P12 billion.

The earthquake was so powerful that the Presidential Management Staff of then President Cory Aquino said that its power was equivalent to over 45 Hiroshima atomic bombs that devastated Japan back in World War 2.

Years after, on March 6, 2002,  another earthquake hit the Philippines.

About 81 kilometers southwest of Isulan, Sultan Kudarat, the Palimbang earthquake hit the area with a magnitude of 6.8, killing 15 people.

In February 6, 2012, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit the Negros Oriental and other areas of Visayas.  At least 51 were killed.

More than a year later, another earthquake hit the country, this time taking the lives of 227 citizens.

It hit Visayas, including Bohol, with a magnitude of 7.2.

At least P2 billion worth of damages were reported. —Kaela Malig/Jessica Bartolome/LDF, GMA News