Abra earthquake victims get P1-M aid from Baguio

BAGUIO CITY officials gave financial P1 million assistance from the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management quick response fund of the local government to Abra towns badly battered by the magnitude 7 earthquake on July 27.
    Ordinance 58, Series of 2022 granted financial assistance to Abra chargeable under the CDRRM quick response fund and approved for immediate release.
    On July 27, a magnitude 7 earthquake shook the northwestern part of Luzon.

    The quake's epicenter was recorded in the northwestern portion of Abra, with residents experiencing intensity 7 tremblors classified as destructive based on the criteria of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology intensity scale.
    After the major earthquake, the Abra provincial government reported that a number of roads were heavily damaged, with landslides and collapsed structures.
    The financial assistance will be given to the municipalities in Abra that were declared under a state of calamity.