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A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck disconnected the confederate Philippines connected Monday (June 15, 2026), the United States Geological Survey said, a week aft a deadly quake successful the aforesaid portion killed astatine slightest 65 people.
The quake deed disconnected the seashore of Mindanao land astatine 5:18 p.m. (0918 GMT) astatine a extent of 112 kilometres (69.5 miles), the USGS reported. No tsunami informing has been issued.
There were nary contiguous reports of injuries oregon damage, Kaiser Cadiz, of the Davao Oriental provincial catastrophe office, told AFP.
"Our precedence present is to show the seashore to find if determination are indications the h2o had receded (a informing of an impending tsunami)," she said, adding nary had been observed truthful far.
The 7.8-magnitude tremor that deed Mindanao connected June 8 brought down buildings, triggered landslides, and displaced thousands connected the confederate land portion mounting disconnected tsunami warnings crossed the region.
The nationalist catastrophe bureau connected Monday (June 15, 2026) raised the decease toll from that quake to 65. At slightest 36 radical stay unaccounted for.
Earthquakes are a near-daily occurrence successful the Philippines, which is situated connected the Pacific "Ring of Fire", an arc of aggravated seismic enactment stretching from Japan done Southeast Asia and crossed the Pacific basin.
Eastern Mindanao was rocked by a brace of earthquakes of magintudes 7.4 and 6.7 successful October that killed astatine slightest 8 people.
