Philippines (AFP) – A major earthquake that hit the southern Philippines earlier this month toppled buildings, triggered landslides and killed at least 76 people on the southern island of Mindanao. It also thrust chunks of the island’s coastline upward in a phenomenon known as “coastal uplift”, leaving stretches of shore unrecognisable to families who have spent their whole lives there. “If the residents are waiting for the old coastline to return to ‘normal’, it won’t return,” says Nande Danlag of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.
