July 16 An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale kills more than 1,600 in the Philippines.

There is also a divergent boundary between the Philippine Sea Plate and the small Mariana Plate which carries the Mariana Islands.

Moreover, China s bullying of the Philippines included not only the dispatch of warships to Scarborough Shoals, but also the sudden imposition of import restrictions on Filipino produce.

Tremors, mostly non lethal can be felt in Malaysia, caused by earthquakes in Sumatra islands of Indonesia and the Philippines.

Yet on that same day, the headlines in Chinese papers were blasting the Philippines for its historic claim to ownership of the Spratly Islands.

They are located northeast of Sulawesi between the Celebes Sea and the Molucca Sea, roughly halfway between Sulawesi and Mindanao, in the Philippines the Sangihes form the eastern limit of the Celebes Sea.

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TOKYO China is now engaged in bitter disputes with the Philippines over Scarborough Shoal and Japan over the Senkaku Islands, both located far beyond China s 200 mile wide territorial waters in the South China Sea.

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For example, China has not only escalated its challenge to Japan s decades old control of the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands, but is also facing off against the Philippines since taking effective control of Scarborough Shoal last year.

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