Quake creates a rock wall in the Philippines
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A deadly earthquake that struck the Philippines last week created a spectacular rocky wall that stretches for kilometers through farmlands, geologists said yesterday.
Dramatic pictures of the Earth-altering power of the 7.1-magnitide quake have emerged as the government worked to mend the broken central island of Bohol, ground zero of the destruction.
A “ground rupture” pushed up a stretch of ground by up to 3 meters, creating a wall of rock above the epicenter, said Maria Isabel Abigania, a geologist at the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.
“Our people have walked 5 kilometers so far and not found the end of this wall,” she said, as experts from the institute surveyed the damage.
“So far we have not gotten any reports of people getting swallowed up in these cracks. The fault runs along a less-populated area.”
A photograph on the institute’s website showed part of the rock wall rising on farmland behind an unscathed bamboo hut.
Another house was shown lodged in a crack of the Earth, while a big hole on the ground opened up at a banana farm.
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