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A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck disconnected the seashore of the confederate Philippines connected Wednesday (January 7, 2026), the United States Geological Survey said, but determination was nary tsunami informing oregon contiguous reports of damage.
The quake, archetypal reported arsenic a magnitude 6.7, deed astatine a extent of 58.5 kilometres (36 miles) astir 27 kilometres eastbound of the municipality of Santiago connected the land of Mindanao, according to the USGS.
Nash Paragas, a rescuer successful the eastbound state of Davao Oriental, told AFP there were nary contiguous reports of casualties oregon damage.
"There was shaking. I saw immoderate of the cars moving, but I deliberation it was lone for a abbreviated time, astir 5 seconds," helium said.
Eastern Mindanao was rocked by a brace of earthquakes of 7.4 and 6.7 magnitude successful October that killed astatine slightest 8 people.
These followed a magnitude 6.9 quake days earlier that killed 76 radical and destroyed oregon damaged 72,000 houses successful Cebu state successful cardinal Philippines, according to authorities figures.
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.
