A earthquake quantities 6.7 this Friday the waters south of the island shook Mindanao, in the southern region of the city Philippines, without authorities initially reporting the damage or sounding a fire alarm. tsunami.

Geological Survey USA, which records seismic activity around the world, had a hypocenter at a depth of 77 kilometers and approximately 26.7 kilometers south of the city Burias, with a population of about 4 thousand inhabitants.

Through social networks, Internet users shared videos taken as the Earth moved. One of them shows how the earthquake violently shakes the interior of a shopping center. As people run, pieces of the ceiling fall from the ceiling.

In its turn, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) noted in a message on their website that the epicenter of the earthquake was approximately 30 kilometers west of Sarangani, V Western Davao.

Also in the second message, he emphasized that “based on available sea level data, there is no threat of a destructive tsunami.”

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“There is no tsunami threat to the Philippines from this earthquake,” he said, although he recalled that “earthquakes of this magnitude create unusual changes in sea level that can be observed on the coasts near the epicenter.”

Philippines agrees to call Pacific Ring of Firean area of ​​great seismic and volcanic activity, in which about 7 thousand earthquakes are recorded annually, most of them moderate.

(According to EFE and Europa Press)