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The threat of a tsunami disappears after a powerful earthquake hits the Philippines
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The threat of a tsunami disappears after a powerful earthquake hits the Philippines

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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center lifted its tsunami alert for the Philippines, Palau and Indonesia on Friday, hours after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the southern Philippines.
“There is no longer a tsunami threat from this earthquake,” the US agency said in an advisory.
The earthquake struck about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Manay in the Mindanao region at 9:43 a.m. (11:43 a.m. AEDT), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.

Waves of up to three meters were forecast for threatened areas in the Philippines and waves of up to one meter in Palau and Indonesia, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration previously warned.

Children evacuated a school on Friday after a strong earthquake struck Davao City in the Philippines. Source: AP / Manman Dejeto

There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties from the earthquake, although police officer Dianne Lacorda said Davao Oriental province, which includes Manay, was expecting damage.

“Our cups on the table moved and fell,” she said, adding that power and communication lines have been cut and authorities cannot assess the potential damage in some areas.

‘The shaking was so strong’

Christine Sierte, a teacher in the town of Compostela near Manay, said she was in the middle of an online meeting when the violent shaking started.
“It was very slow at first, then it got stronger… that’s the longest time of my life. We couldn’t walk out of the building right away because it was shaking so much,” she said.
“The ceilings of some offices fell down, but fortunately no one was injured.”
Sierte said some of the school’s nearly 1,000 students were “suffering from panic attacks and difficulty breathing.”

Around the same time as the Philippine earthquake, USGS reported a shallow 6.2 magnitude quake just over 90 miles (140 km) southeast of Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.

A 99km deep earthquake also struck Tuesday near the second-largest city of Lae Island in the Pacific Ocean. No major damage was reported.
Earthquakes occur almost daily in the Philippines, located on the Pacific ‘Ring of Fire’, an arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific Basin.
This is a developing story and this article will be updated.

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