Moro Gulf

The worst-hit area was Maguindanao’s Kusiong village, which lies between the foothills of Mount Minandar and the Moro Gulf.

Lying between the Moro Gulf and Mount Minandar, Kusiong was among the hardest hit by the 1976 catastrophe and the village never forgot the tragedy.

In August 1976, an 8.1-magnitude earthquake and a tsunami in the Moro Gulf that struck around midnight left thousands of people dead and devastated coastal provinces in one of the deadliest natural disasters in Philippine history.