Published July 25, 2021, 10:58 AM
CALATAGAN, Batangas – A fissures surfaced in Sitio Putol, Barangay Bagong Silang while an incident of landslide was recorded in Barangay Luya, both in this municipality due to the 6.6-magnitude quake that occured at exactly 4:49 in the morning on Saturday, the Municipal Disaster and Risk Reduction Management Officer Ronald Torres reported.
Another incident of landslide beside a school building that is being built at the Miranda Elementary School in Talisay town was also reported but the MDRRMO here believed that the incident was triggered by the bad weather that uninterruptedly brought heavy rains and loosened the ground.
In the municipality of Taal, new fissures and sinkholes surfaced in barangays Lagile and Apacay, but Taal mayor Fulgencio Mercado cannot ascertain yet whether the ground movements were due to earthquake of to the recent eruption of Taal Volcano and the torrential rains brought by typhoon Fabian and the southwest monsoon or haba