President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered a 24/7 response to the victims of Sunday’s earthquake in Davao del Sur “to make sure that everyone is safe and are ready for possible aftershocks.”
Rescuers search for survivors of a collapsed building after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Padada town, Davao del Sur province in the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines on December 16, 2019. - A powerful earthquake hit the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on December 15, killing a child and damaging buildings in an area still recovering from a string of deadly quakes in October. (Photo by Ferdinandh CABRERA / AFP)