People don't die from earthquakes.
People die from collapsed buildings.
Buildings collapse due to shortcuts around building code standards.
Shortcuts done by the construction industry with permission from bureaucrats.
JUST IN: The earthquake caused the separation of Leyte, Samar, and portion of Bohol grid from the Cebu-Negros-Panay grid per the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines.
As of 11 p.m., NGCP identified damage to its Daanbantayan Substation, located near the earthquake epicenter, and recorded the tripping of four 230kV transmission lines in Visayas. #KuryentePatrol | via @feanneperez