Quake in Philippines

While we were busy discussing the outcome of the Superbowl....did anyone even hear of the large earthquake that hit the Philippines?  Seriously....these large quakes are coming so often that few people in the rest of the world even know about them.

Philippine officials conceded Wednesday that there was little hope of finding any survivors among 71 people still buried in landslides set off by a powerful earthquake, as jittery residents stayed away from their homes amid a flurry of aftershocks.

Soldiers, rescue volunteers and villagers using picks and shovels have not found anyone alive under concrete rubble and tons of rocks and mountain soil since the magnitude-6.9 quake struck two townships in central Negros Oriental province on Monday. So far, 26 bodies have been recovered and identified.

Ramos said many jittery villagers refused to return to their houses, fearing more damage from numerous aftershocks and opting instead to sleep in vacant fields and parks.

"We could see how severe nature's wrath was," Aquino said. "The aftershocks are enlarging the cracks of the roads."

With more bodies expected to be recovered, Guihulngan Mayor Ernesto Reyes said his town of 100,000 people might run out of coffins. At least 23 people were still missing there.

Here;  http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0208/Negros-earthquake-President-Aquino-criticizes-shoddy-road-building