[ad_1]
Police officers guard the heavily damaged apartment building after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake in Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines, October 31, 2019. File photo: Lynn Daval Jr./Reuters
An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale rocked Davao Occidental Province in the southern Philippines on Tuesday.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said that the tectonic earthquake occurred 316 km southeast of Balut Island in Sarangani, at a depth of 10 km.
The institute warned of aftershocks.
There were no reports of injuries or material damage as a result of the earthquake.
The Philippines sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire where about 90 percent of the world’s earthquakes occur.
|
Sources 2/ https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/24/01/2023/strong-earthquake-hits-southern-philippines The mention sources can contact us to remove/changing this article |
[ad_2]