Nearly 18,000 evacuees housed in centers after Mindanao earthquake

ILOILO CITY — Nearly 18,000 people were staying in evacuation centers on Monday evening, June 8, following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck off Maasim, Sarangani earlier in the day, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) reported.

The DSWD’s Disaster Response Operations Monitoring and Information Center (DROMIC) said the powerful quake affected 56 ...