Philippines picks up the pieces after strongest earthquake in decades - The Guardian

7.8-magnitude quake hit the southern island of Mindanao killing at least 55 people and leaving a trail of destruction. It was just before midnight when the rescue team pulled the body from the rubble of a grocery store destroyed by the most powerful quake to hit the Philippines in half a century. For days rescuers have trawled through the wreckage in General Santos City on the nation’s second-most populous island of Mindanao after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the region, triggered a tsunami