GLENDALE, California - For the past two days, it has been difficult for RD Alba to log on to Facebook, seeing landmarks from his hometown of Bohol in ruins after a powerful 7.2 earthquake hit the Visayas and Mindanao regions.
He said his mother is safe, with the family's home suffering minimal damage.
"It's just kind of unreal because my family lives there and I'm just glad that my mom is fine. It's the older structures that are really, like, broken down, like the old churches. Thankfully, our place is fine, small cracks here and there, but nothing major," said Alba.
Alba, who spent his childhood and teenage years in Bohol, felt the 1996 earthquake as a youth. But he said the '96 quake does not compare to the devastation he's seen that has left over a hundred dead.
"It's really one of the rare things that happen in Bohol because it's one of the biggest earthquakes that happened. I was there during the '96 earthquake. I was still like in 3rd high school," he said.
While Alba breathes a sigh of relief, Akima Abrahan is still holding his, as he's waiting to hear from his nephew and his family who live and work in Cebu.
"I'd like to contact them tonight. I wrote them yesterday, Facebook and they haven't responded to my message. So I don't know their condition," said Abrahan.
The magnitude 7.2 earthquake that hit Bohol is the most powerful in three years.
Meanwhile, a pair of magnitude 5.1 aftershocks hit Bohol on Wednesday morning.
source: www.abs-cbnnews.com
