The director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said years of disaster-preparedness drills helped people anticipate and brace for extreme events like Monday's quake, one of the strongest to hit the archipelago in a half-century. https://to.pbs.org/4v9WmWN
Philippine officials said Friday that years of disaster-preparedness drills helped prevent a larger casualty toll when one of the strongest earthquakes in 50 years struck the south and left 46 people ...
