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Strong earthquake hits southern Philippines

By VNA / DA NANG Today
October 17, 2019, 09:23 [GMT+7]

 A 6.4-magnitude quake hit Mindanao in the south of the Philippines on 16 October.

A workshop is damaged after a quake in the Philippines (Illustrative image. Source: The Pioneer)
A workshop is damaged after a quake in the Philippines (Illustrative image. Source: The Pioneer)

There were no immediate reports of casualties from the earthquake.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake struck 69km north-northwest of General Santos, Mindanao.

No tsunami warning was issued after the earthquake by the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre.

The Philippines is regularly hit by quakes as the country is on the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” a horse-shoe shaped band of volcanoes and fault lines circling the edges of the Pacific Ocean.

(Source: VNA)

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