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Kidapawan hotel nearly collapses after magnitude 6.5 quake, several injured

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">LOOK | Eva&#x27;s Hotel in Kidapawan City has collapsed following the magnitude 6.5 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/earthquake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#earthquake</a> mid-morning on Thursday. Kidapawan City Mayor Joseph Evangelista (in black shirt) has given out orders for possible rescue operations. | via Edwin Fernandez/Photos: Kidapawan City CIO <a href="https://t.co/NL4EWyN7oe">pic.twitter.com/NL4EWyN7oe</a></p>— Phil News Agency (@pnagovph) <a href="https://twitter.com/pnagovph/status/1189721454490730496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2019</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>MANILA<strong> (2nd UPDATE)</strong> - A hotel in Kidapawan City nearly collapsed Thursday morning after a 6.5-magnitude quake jolted Cotabato less than a week after a powerful tremor rocked parts of Mindanao.</p><p>No one was inside the building when it gave way, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said.</p><p>Some patients from a clinic behind the building, however, were trapped but have since been evacuated to safe areas, it added.</p><p>&quot;Takbo nang takbo yung ating mga ambulance dahil apparently meron talagang mga malubhang nainjured,&quot; local disaster official Psalmer Bernalte told radio DZMM.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/idaMYj1s0B0?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>The building&#x27;s structure has yet to be reevaluated following the magnitude 6.3 quake last Tuesday, Bernalte said.</p><p>&quot;Ang ginawa ng city government kasi it&#x27;s a business establishment, &#x27;yung may portions lang na nasira &#x27;yun lang ang ni-restrict ng aming command post,&quot; he said.</p><p>The Thursday quake was the third temblor that hit southern Philippines this month.</p><p>The Philippines suffers regular tremors as part of the Pacific &quot;Ring of Fire&quot;, an arc of intense seismic activity that stretches from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.</p><p>The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has ruled out the possibility of a tsunami threat after the earthquake. <strong>- with a report from Arianne Apatan, ABS-CBN News, and Agence France-Presse</strong></p>

<p>MANILA (UPDATE) - A hotel in Kidapawan City nearly collapsed Thursday morning after a 6.5-magnitude quake jolted Cotabato less than a week after a powerful tremor rocked parts of Mindanao.</p>

MANILA (UPDATE) - A hotel in Kidapawan City nearly collapsed Thursday morning after a 6.5-magnitude quake jolted Cotabato less than a week after a powerful tremor rocked parts of Mindanao.