Quote Originally Posted by Yatta View Post
Both of them neither got it right nor wrong. Phivolcs already got the plot/location right but could not decide if it was correct because the fault that was historically known to cause a large earthquake and tsunami in the 90s was farther away. Thats why it was called a blind fault, no earthquake has occurred in the area since the 1900s when observational seismology was applied in the Philippines by the Jesuits and Americans.

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The problem is everytime there is a major earthquake we always tie it up with the nearest major fault as the culprit.
The Phivolcs data (as you claimed) is telling you that the epicenter is 90 kilometers off Carmen and yet Phivolcs made a press release contrary to the facts.
It will be impossible to mitigate nor predict an earthquake if all our data analysis is tunneled vision. We should start looking outside of the box, technology is improving.

I was in Cebu during the Bohol earthquake, and I didn't believe that earthquake could be caused by a major fault that recently moved.
Thats 7.2 magnitude, do you know how long it will take to stressed a fault to produce that magnitude? Considering that fault is already ruptured and will move even before it reaches the stress level that correspond to a magnitude 7.2.