A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Moro_Gulf_earthquake" id="mwAak" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1976 Moro Gulf earthquake">magnitude 7.9 earthquake</a> hits off the coast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindanao" id="mwAao" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mindanao">Mindanao</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" id="mwAas" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000-8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless.<sup about="#mwt85" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-14"}}' id="cite_ref-14" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_17#cite_note-14" id="mwAaw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 14;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAa0">[14]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt89" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-15"}}' id="cite_ref-15" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_17#cite_note-15" id="mwAa4" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 15;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAa8">[15]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-14"><cite about="#mwt82" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFStaff_of_the_Academy_of_Sciences_of_the_USS1997">Staff of the Academy of Sciences of the USS (1997). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=umZ--INFYEEC&amp;pg=PA103" id="mwB6E" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB6I">Catalog of Tsunamis in the Pacific 1969–1982</i></a>. Diane Pub. pp.<span id="mwB6M" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>103, 104. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB6Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB6U" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-7881393-1-4" id="mwB6Y" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7881393-1-4"><bdi id="mwB6c">978-0-7881393-1-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt82" class="Z3988" id="mwB6g" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Catalog+of+Tsunamis+in+the+Pacific+1969%E2%80%931982&amp;rft.pages=103%2C+104&amp;rft.pub=Diane+Pub&amp;rft.date=1997&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-7881393-1-4&amp;rft.au=Staff+of+the+Academy+of+Sciences+of+the+USS&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DumZ--INFYEEC%26pg%3DPA103&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+17"></span></span>