The US Geological Survey said that the quake hit near Tagbilaran, Bohol, Philippines–an area that was ravaged by an earthquake last month.
The quake struck 41 miles south-southeast of Cebu, 72 miles east of Dumaguete, and 400 miles south of Manila.
It had a depth of 42.7 miles.
It is unclear if the quake caused any injuries or damage.
No tsunami warning was issued for the area.
According to reports sent to the US Geological Survey, people in Cebu, Danao, and Bohol said they felt weak to moderate shaking.
The quake struck in the same area as last month’s earthquake that displaced tens of thousands of people–located just south of where devastating Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) just hit over the weekend. The typhoon leveled several cities and is believed to have killed thousands of people.
The storm Zoraida brought sustained winds of 34 miles an hour, far weaker than Haiyan's 146-mile-an-hour sustained winds, the state weather bureau, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration, or PAGASA, reported.
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Areas of the Philippines devastated by one of the world's strongest typhoons were hit by more heavy rain Tuesday, as the authorities vowed to step up relief efforts for millions of survivors in need of food and water. A tropical depression crossed the southern Philippines with maximum winds of 55 kilometres per hour, the weather bureau said.
Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said the weather pattern had brought heavy rains over Leyte province, one of the regions hardest hit by Typhoon Haiyan. Thousands are feared to have been killed in the storm.
Speaking to Manila-based DZMM radio, Roxas said disaster relief teams were redoubling their efforts to hasten the delivery of food, water, medicines and other supplies to millions of people affected.
EU Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said meanwhile that the European Union would allocate an additional 10 million euros (13.4 million US dollars) in assistance for areas devastated by Haiyan, on top of 3 million euros announced previously.
The super-typhoon that tore through the Philippines and left a feared five-figure death toll touched down in central Vietnam early Monday, already ranking as one of Asia’s most destructive natural disasters in recent decades.
As rescue workers struggled to reach some areas along a heavily damaged chain of Philippine islands, survivors described a toll that this impoverished country will be contending with for years.
Entire regions are without food and water, and bodies are strewn on the streets, after a typhoon that had much the look of a tsunami, with waves as high as two-story buildings. Photos and videos showed towns ground to a pulp.
President Benigno Aquino III, who traveled by helicopter to Tacloban on Sunday, said the government had deployed several hundred soldiers to "show the strength of the state and deter further looting," according to his official Web site.
As of Sunday evening, the government had confirmed only 229 deaths, but Aquino said the official numbers will rise "substantially."
With unconfirmed wire service reports of about 10,000 dead in Tacloban alone, Typhoon Haiyan threatened to become the deadliest disaster in Philippine history, surpassing Tropical Storm Thelma, which killed 5,000 people in 1991. With sustained wind speeds of 150 to 170 mph, Haiyan is among the strongest storms on record.
"Tacloban is totally destroyed," schoolteacher Andrew Pomeda told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. "Some people are losing their minds from hunger or from losing their families. People are becoming violent. They are looting business establishments, the malls, just to find food. I’m afraid that in one week, people will be killing from hunger."
The latest Philippine government estimates suggest that 9.5 million people — about 10 percent of the country — have been affected, with more than 600,000 displaced from their homes. Many roads remain impassable, according to the UN office responsible for humanitarian affairs, and some of the injured have no access to medical care. Even in Tacloban, one of the first areas accessed by aid workers, it takes six hours to make the 14-mile round trip between the airport and the city because of the damage, officials said.
"It is vital that we reach those who are stranded in isolated areas as they are at risk of further threats such as malnutrition, exposure to bad weather and unsafe drinking water," said Luiza Car­valho, a UN humanitarian coordinator for the Philippines.
President Benigno Aquino III on Monday declared a state of national calamity following the devastation caused by super typhoon Yolanda (aka Haiyan) in the Philippines.
Aquino made the announcement during a televised message on Monday night, a day after coming back from his visit to typhoon-hit Tacloban.
In a national address, delivered on prime time television on Monday November 11, Aquino said, "We declare a state of national calamity "to hasten the action of the government to rescue, provide help, and rehabilitate the provinces affected by Yolanda".
"This is important not just to control prices of primary products and services needed by our countrymen, but also to avoid overpricing and hoarding of important goods," he said.
Aquino said the government also approved 1.1 billion pesos to add to the Quick Response Fund jointly run by the Department of Social Welfare and Development and the Department of Public Works and Highways, "to immediately provide the support needed to help our countrymen recover from this tragedy".
The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan,which smashed into the Philippines last weekend, has reached 942, according to the national disaster management agency in contrast to earlier reports that Typhoon caused at least 10,000 deaths.
"This is the official information about the dead. Another 275 people are missing. We can't confirm the information about 10,000 dead," an agency official stated.
On Saturday, a Philippines Red Cross official claimed 1,200 people had died. At the same time numerous mass media reports suggested 10,000 fatalaties with another 2,000 missing.
At the moment Super Typhoon is heading north-west.
Vietnam and Laos are expected to be hit next.
The Philippine government on Monday calls for calm after one of the world's strongest typhoons left survivors desperate for food and water in areas devastated by the storm.
More aid workers and relief supplies were being poured into eastern provinces hit by Typhoon Hainan, which aid agencies and officials estimate has left thousands dead, and staggering destruction in its wake.
President Benigno Aquino told survivors that the government was stepping up relief efforts and called for cooperation amid reports of looting in Tacloban City, the capital of Leyte province, one of the worst-hit areas.
"The national government will be taking over (from the local governments) on a temporary basis and we will be putting in more people to fill positions that were vacated suddenly," he said after visiting Tacloban on Sunday.
Thousands were feared dead in Leyte and nearby Samar province. According to the Philippines Daily Inquirer, at least 709 were confirmed killed, mostly drowned by tsunami-like sea waves that flattened towns.
American military search-and-rescue helicopters, surveillance planes and Marines streamed toward the central Philippines on Sunday to survey the devastation and assist survivors whose homes were washed away by one of the largest Pacific storms on record.
Typhoon Haiyan, known as Yolanda to Filipinos, may have killed more than 10,000 people, officials said Sunday, as it lashed the island chain with winds over 200 miles per hour and caused widespread flooding.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel directed the US Pacific Command to deploy rescue teams, helicopters for airlifts, logistics officers and cargo planes to assist in the relief efforts.
At the request of the Philippine armed forces, the US Navy was flying two P-3 Orion surveillance planes above the islands to help rescuers locate the most severely damaged areas and find survivors.
In a statement released Sunday, President Obama said that he and First Lady Michelle “are deeply saddened by the loss of life and extensive damage done by Super Typhoon Yolanda”.
“I know the incredible resiliency of the Philippine people, and I am confident that the spirit ofbayanihan will see you though this tragedy,” Obama said, adopting a term commonly used in the Philippines that means communal cooperation.
On Sunday, some 80 Marines from the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Brigade stationed in Okinawa, Japan, boarded two KC-130 cargo planes bound for the Philippines, Col. Brad Bartelt, a Marine Corps spokesman, said in a statement. They were taking supplies and communications equipment.
The Marine Corps will also be sending MV-22 Osprey aircraft. The Osprey is shaped like a cargo plane, but can rotate its propellers vertically like a helicopter to land and take off without a long runway.
Assessment teams deployed by the US Agency for International Development determined the damage is “severe in multiple locations,” according to a news release. In some parts of the central Philippines, 90% of the housing is gone, USAID teams have determined.
Typhoon Haiyan has made landfall in Vietnam after causing devastation across the Philippines, forecasters said Sunday. The storm was located about 155 kilometres east-south-east of Hanoi at 2100 GMT, the US Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Hawaii said.
Haiyan had weakened considerably since striking the Philippines and was expected to cross northeastern Vietnam and into China, the Weather Channel reported.
The storm, which had weakened significantly since scything through the Philippines over the weekend, made landfall with sustained winds of 75 miles (120 kilometres) per hour, said the JTWC, a joint US Navy and Air Force task force located in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
More than 600,000 people were evacuated on the weekend as Haiyan bore down on Vietnam.
Residents of Hanoi were braced for heavy rains and flooding, while tens of thousands of people in coastal areas were ordered to take shelter.
"We have evacuated more than 174,000 households, which is equivalent to more than 600,000 people," said an official report by Vietnam's flood and storm control department.
The storm changed course on Sunday, prompting further mass evacuations of about 52,000 people in northern provinces by the coast.
The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations has opened a hotline, for citizens to learn details about the recent typhoon in the Philippines or share information about Russians who may have been in the area of the calamity.
The hotline number is 8-800-775-17-17.
Ministry of Emergency Situations representative, Irina Rossius, says that, according to data from her ministry and the Rosturism tourist agency, there may be from 110 to 150 Russians in the area, but no information is yet available about whether or not any of them have suffered harm.
The first instances of looting were reported in the typhoon-ravaged archipelago country of Philippines in South Asia early on Sunday, with the majority of reports coming from Leyte province, where homes have been flattened by the record storm surge that accompanied Super Typhoon Haiyan.
In the province’s capital city of Tacloban, which has been hit the worst, residents could be seen scrambling through the debris in search of what little food remained in ruined shops.
On Sunday, a group of unknown looters overran a truck that had brought provisions to the storm-devastated area. The vehicle was reportedly shipped to the Philippines by sea and contained enough food to feed 5,000 families.
Richard Gordon, chairman of the Philippines Red Cross, told reporters the police were impossible to reach and called on authorities to put an end to massive pillage.
Philippine National Police (PNP) spokesman Reuben Sindac vowed that police presence would be boosted in the Leyte province. They will both carry out search and rescue operations and reinstate order, he said.
About 500 police forces, including over 200 emergency response troops, were sent to the region on Sunday, with 300 more personnel on stand-by.
The PNP admitted however that local police and military forces in Leyte were unable to cope with the situation on their own.
As many as 10,000 people are feared to have died and many more have been made homeless in Tacloban, which lay in the path of the storm.
Up to 150 Russians could possibly have been staying in the Philippines when super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) devastated central parts of the country, Irina Rossius, official spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Emergencies, said on Sunday.
"Between 110 and 150 Russians might have been in the disaster area, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry and Federal Agency for Tourism. So far, it’s unclear whether any of them were injured," she said.
Earlier, the Reuters news agency reported, with reference to the Philippines' police, that the super typhoon had claimed at least 10,000 lives in the Leyte province.
A minimum of 10,000 people have died in the central Philippine province of Leyte after Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall, lashed the province, swallowing coastal towns, a senior police official said on Sunday.
About 70 to 80 percent of the area in the path of Haiyan in Leyte province was destroyed, said Chief Superintendent Elmer Soria.
"We had a meeting last night with the governor and the other officials. The governor said based on their estimate, 10,000 died," Soria told Reuters.
One of the strongest typhoons ever to make landfall devastated the central Philippines, killing more than 1,000 people in one city alone and 200 in another province, the Red Cross estimated on Saturday, as reports of high casualties began to emerge.
A day after Typhoon Haiyan churned through the Philippine archipelago in a straight line from east to west, rescue teams struggled to reach far-flung regions, hampered by washed out roads, many choked with debris and fallen trees.
The death toll is expected to rise sharply from the fast-moving storm, whose circumference eclipsed the whole country and which late on Saturday was heading for Vietnam.
Among the hardest hit was coastal Tacloban in central Leyte province, where preliminary estimates suggest more than 1,000 people were killed, said Gwendolyn Pang, secretary general of thePhilippine Red Cross, as water surges rushed through the city.
"An estimated more than 1,000 bodies were seen floating in Tacloban as reported by our Red Crossteams," she told Reuters. "In Samar, about 200 deaths. Validation is ongoing."
She expected a more exact number to emerge after a more precise body count on the ground in those regions.
Witnesses said corpses covered in plastic were lying on the streets. Television footage shows cars piled atop each other.
"The last time I saw something of this scale was in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami," said Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, head of the UN Disaster Assessment Coordination Team sent to Tacloban, referring to the 2004 earthquake and tsunami.
"This is destruction on a massive scale. There are cars thrown like tumbleweed and the streets are strewn with debris."
The category 5 "super typhoon" weakened to a category 4 on Saturday, though forecasters said it could strengthen again over the South China Sea en route to Vietnam.
Authorities in 15 provinces in Vietnam have started to call back boats and prepare for possible landslides. Nearly 300,000 people were moved to safer areas in two provinces alone, Da Nang and Quang Nam, according to the government's website.
The Philippines has yet to restore communications with officials in Tacloban, a city of about 220,000. A government official estimated at least 100 were killed and more than 100 wounded, but conceded the toll would likely rise sharply.
The national disaster agency has yet to confirm the toll as broken power poles, trees, bent tin roofs and splintered houses littered the streets of the city about 360 miles southeast of Manila.
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