At least seven people were killed in the southern Philippines after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake occurred off the island of Mindanao on Friday, the Philippine Civil Defense Office said.
Authorities said six people died in the central Mindanao region and one in Davao Occidental, and indicated that the damage is still being assessed, so the death toll could rise.
Images and videos posted on social media show scenes of panic inside a shopping mall in Davao City during the earthquake, with glass breaking and objects falling from the ceiling, as people seek shelter.
The United States Geological Survey, which monitors seismic activity around the world, located the hypocenter of this earthquake at a depth of 77 kilometers and the epicenter about 26.7 kilometers south of the city of Burias, where about four people live. a thousand people.
The Philippines is located on the so-called “ring of fire” of the Pacific, an area of great seismic and volcanic activity, where around seven thousand earthquakes are recorded every year, most of them moderate.
Source: TSF
