The death toll in a powerful earthquake that hit the central Philippines late on Tuesday has risen to 72 with nearly 300 others injured. Filipino seismologists say the earthquake in the Bogo area of Cebu province was triggered by a shallow undersea fault line that has not moved for at least 400 years. Damaged homes after a landslide caused by the earthquake struck (Aaron Favila/AP) (Aaron Favila/AP)The earthquake damaged or destroyed 87 buildings and nearly 600 houses in Bogo, a relatively new and progressive coastal city of about 90,000, and outlying towns. Bryan Sinangote was watching a basketball game with fewer than 100 spectators in San Remigio town, just outside Bogo when the quake hit. “It’s heartbreaking to hear what happened to Bogo city,” Mr Sinangote said, adding that Filipinos have no option but to learn to live side by side with calamities.