A magnitude-6.2 earthquake has struck off the country’s south, the US Geological Survey said, a week after a deadly quake in the same region killed at least 65 people.
The quake hit off the coast of Mindanao island at 5.18pm local time yesterday at a depth of 112km, the USGS reported.
No tsunami warning has been issued.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, Kaiser Cadiz, of the Davao Oriental provincial disaster office, said.
“Our priority now is to monitor the coast to determine if there are indications the water had receded (a warning of an impending tsunami),” she said, adding none had been observed so far.
The 7.8-magnitude tremor that hit Mindanao on June 8 brought down buildings, triggered landslides and displaced thousands on the southern island while setting off tsunami warnings across the region.
The national disaster agency yesterday raised the death toll from that quake to 65.
At least 36 people remain unaccounted for.
Eastern Mindanao was rocked by a pair of earthquakes of magnitudes 7.4 and 6.7 in October that killed at least eight people. — AFP
