A 6-magnitude earthquake struck the Samar region of the Philippines on Monday, according to Reuters citing data from the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ).
The quake hit a depth of 73.3 kilometres, around nine kilometres from the province's coastal town of San Julian, United States Geological Survey reported.
A local police officer described the tremors as “strong and sudden”, with no immediate reports of injury.
“Here at the police station, one of the beams where our roof was attached was broken ... I saw some furniture moving,” the police officer told AFP.
The Philippines is prone to earthquakes due to its location on the Pacific “ring of fire”, an arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.
Recent earthquakes in the Philippines include a pair of quakes in Eastern Mindanao last October, which resulted in at least eight deaths, and a magnitude 6.9 quake in Cebu province that killed 76 people and destroyed or damaged 72,000 houses.
