A partially damaged building is seen amid debris in Masbate Province, August 18, 2020, after an earthquake struck the Philippines. Philippine Red Cros Masbate/ Handout via REUTERS
MANILA (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the Philippines on Tuesday, killing at least one person and damaging roads and buildings including a hospital and a sports complex being used as a novel coronavirus quarantine centre.
It was the strongest earthquake in eight months in the Philippines, which lies on the "Ring of Fire," a seismically active belt of volcanoes circling the Pacific Ocean.
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