CEBU PROVINCE, The Philippines — Jane Lita Baquilta and her family lived in a house they thought would keep them safe from the natural disasters that frequently batter the Philippines. Instead, it became her grave.

Her husband, Jeffrey Crisostomo, 39, remembers the hope they felt when he and Baquilta, 38, moved in with their son and two daughters after being displaced by a typhoon in 2013. The house was part of SM Cares Village, a relocation site built for survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest ever recorded. It had destroyed their home in Sitio Tabla, a village on the island of Cebu, about 360 miles south of the capital, Manila.

“She was excited to move to that house because it was made of concrete, unlike our shanties here in the fields,” Crisostomo said.

The 6.9-magn

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