An earthquake measuring 6.2 jolted the Banda Sea at 7:43 p.m. Monday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
The epicenter, with a depth of about 20 km, was at 4.4 degrees south latitude and 129.2 degrees east longitude.
Written by Joe Espiritu Four persons died in a treasure hunting accident last week. They died for nothing. Many had lost their shirts in the venture, the propensity for Filipinos to get rich quick attribute to the treasure hunting mania. The sad part is that only the ignorant venture on the search, those in the know, being sure that nothing will come out of the effort would not think of investing money, time and effort – this time lives – in a fruitless enterprise. There had been stories of people getting rich uncovering treasure troves in unlikely places. Most stories are false. Ancient graves of archeological and anthropological value had been desecrated by treasure hunters. They had found nothing. Those people may have struck it rich but not from some hidden riches. Contrary to what other people say, there are no buried treasures in Bohol . If there had been, they were unearthed years ago. If one ...
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