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UPDATE: 5.3 quake sends people fleeing buildings, halts trains and classes
MANILA, Philippines — A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck off Polillo Island in Quezon and shook a large swath of Luzon, sending panicked people fleeing from buildings in Metro Manila.
Train services were halted for more than two hours in the nation’s capital region as authorities made safety checks of facilities. Some evening classes were suspended.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injury from the tremor that centered 39 kilometers northeast of Burdeos on Polillo Island at 4:28 p.m.
“This is a moderate-sized earthquake and we don’t expect damage so far based on the intensity reports that we received,” Renato Solidum, director of the nation’s seismology institute, told CNN Philippines.
Though there did not appear to be any destruction the intense shaking at the epicenter rattled locals.
“Everyone rushed out of the buildings. We were terrified,” Rezil Golbin, a civilian employee at the police office on Polillo Island told Agence France-Presse.
In the metropolis, office workers, some wearing hard hats, poured out of buildings and guests moved out of hotels, and several shoppers in a supermarket yelled in panic as the ground shook.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) initially placed the magnitude at 5.5.
The quake of tectonic origin had a depth of 62 kilometers.
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