{"id":171857,"date":"2025-10-01T03:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171857\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T03:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:06:09","slug":"philippines-earthquake-live-updates-cebu-province-declares-state-of-calamity-as-magnitude-6-9-quake-kills-at-least-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/171857\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines earthquake live updates: Cebu province declares &#8216;state of calamity&#8217; as Magnitude 6.9 quake kills at least 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where did the earthquake strike?published at 00:56 BST 1 October<\/p>\n<p>00:56 BST 1 October<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The earthquake hit the northern tip of Cebu island in the central Philippines, a region also known as the Visayas islands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It struck north-east of the coastal city of Bogo, around two hours by car from the provincial capital, also called Cebu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cebu is the economic and political center of the Visayas, home to an international airport and its sea ports connect carto and commuters to country&#8217;s main islands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Like most of the Visayas it is also home to white sand tourist beaches, diverse wildlife, and century-old Catholic churches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its residents, the Cebuanos, take pride in their own language and regional culture that is distinct from the capital, Manila.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where did the earthquake strike?published at 00:56 BST 1 October 00:56 BST 1 October The earthquake hit the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-171857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}