DHAKA: A deadly earthquake that struck the Philippines last week created a spectacular rocky wall that stretches for kilometres through farmlands.

Astounded geologists said, reports The Straits Times.

Dramatic pictures of the Earth-altering power of the 7.1-magnitude quake have emerged as the government worked to mend the broken central island of Bohol, ground zero of the destruction.

A ‘ground rupture’ pushed up a stretch of ground by up to three metres, creating a wall of rock above the epicentre, Maria Isabel Abigania, a geologist at the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, told media on Thursday.

‘Our people have walked five kilometres so far and not found the end of this wall,’ she said, as experts from the institute surveyed the damage.

BDST: 1854 HRS, OCT 24, 2013
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