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On March 5, 2002, an earthquake in Mindanao, Philippines, kills 15 people and injures more than 100. The year's #1 song was "How You Remind Me" by Nickelback. Jake Fraser-McGurk, Karl Hein, Sadie Sink would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · March 5, 2002
The 2002 Mindanao earthquake struck the Philippines at 05:16:09 Philippine Standard Time on March 6. 5 and was a megathrust earthquake. It originated near the Cotabato Trench, a zone of deformation situated between the Philippine Sea plate and the Sunda plate, and occurred very near to the Philippines' strongest earthquake for the 20th century, the 1918 Celebes Sea earthquake.
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2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2002nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 2nd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 3rd year of the 2000s decade.
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Magnitude 7.5 earthquake in the southern Philippines
The 2002 Mindanao earthquake struck the Philippines at 05:16:09 Philippine Standard Time on March 6. 5 and was a megathrust earthquake. It originated near the Cotabato Trench, a zone of deformation situated between the Philippine Sea plate and the Sunda plate, and occurred very near to the Philippines' strongest earthquake for the 20th century, the 1918 Celebes Sea earthquake.
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