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http://www.drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1976Phillipines.html

Midnight killer: The 1976 Moro Gulf tsunami Gwen Cruz - https://www.rappler.com/moveph/issues/disasters/102827-1976-moro-gulf-earthquake-tsunami

Five of Asia's most devastating earthquakes https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia Pacific/2011/0315/Five-of-Asia-s-most-devastating-earthquakes/The-Philippines-1976

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Technology to prevent further Disasters. 

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Technology to prevent further Disasters. 

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Earthquake Prevention:
- Laser beams are being tested to predict plate movement.
- Seismometer picks up vibrations in Earth's crust.

Tsunami:
-Ocean based sensors put on the ocean floor.
-Warning Centers located in the Northern Pacific closer to Asia.

Government Help:
The wealthy countries government surrounding 3rd world countries shroud help the people where the disaster just occurred.

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Results:
- the results of the destruction from the Earthquake and Tsunami would be from poor construction or inadequate foundations due to being a 3rd world country. Evidence from the disaster shows ground Liquefaction was found in many areas where mud bubbles had reached the surface.
Costs:
- The damage costs reached about $3.1 billion with around 127,000 houses costs and building destroyed

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Estimated casualties=5000
-Estimated missing 2200
-Estimated Injured= 9500
- with a total of 93,000 people homeless.
- Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4ELV9ExP0
- Coconut trees were uprooted, fishing boats were sunk.
-Most buildings bridges and roads were destroyed from both the Earthquake and the Tsunami that followed.
Cities Effected:
-Cotabato
-Pagadian
-Zamboanga
Provinces Effected:
-Baslin
-Lanao de Norte
-Lanao de Sur
-Maguindanao
-Sulten Kudarat
-Sulu
- Zamboanga Del Sur

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Duration:
- the disaster took 1 day with a Earthquake on the and a massive Tsunami happening moments later.
Intensity/Magnitude
- The earthquake was 7.9 in magnitude and the Tsunami has waves about 9 meters high that travelled down the coast as far was 700km.
-Within a few minutes later after the Earthquake the water was receding as far as 2km from the coast.
-Pagadian city was hit the Hardest by the Tsunami.

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- On August 16 1976 at
12:11am a earthquake hit the island and areas surrounding it.
- Sudden movements of the earth produced mass destruction to Cotabato where nearly 1500 people we buried under collapsed buildings.
- Deep within the Moro Gulf giant waves emerged as a result from the earthquake that took places moments ago. As they moved in different directions the slowed down when approaching the surface.