Their topography is full of tall mountains and large plains that provide the cultivation of sugarcane and rice.

Their location in the Visayas sea provides fishing opportunities for the island to obtain more food in a sustainable way.

Common produce also grown here includes maize, coconuts, bananas, tobacco, and various root crops.

The multiple trenches indicate the many subduction zones around the Philippines creating these large magnitude earthquakes.

While it was technically possible that another earthquake of a higher magnitude could have occurred at this same location, it was extremely unlikely and did not end up happening, confirming that the 6.5 Mw event was the mainshock.

"[12] Many of the buildings near the epicenters were not built properly to withstand high magnitude earthquakes; things like tiles fell off of the ceilings and walls if they were not secured enough.