It occurred on November 30 at about 08:00 PM local time on Luzon Island in the northern part of the country.

[1] Aftershocks continued a few days, then on December 4 at 11:00 pm, another event (allegedly equal or stronger than November 30) hit the area, causing further death and destruction.

[2] In Manila, damage was entirely severe: it almost "crumbled" ten newly constructed cathedrals in the capital, residential villas and other buildings.

[5] Outside of Manila there was a general destruction of villas and other buildings which had been erected on both banks of the Pasig River.

From the farthest provinces in the north were reported great alterations of the surface with almost complete disappearance of some native villages, changes in the courses of rivers, subsidences of plains, eruptions of sand, etc.