MANILA, Philippines — MANILA, Philippines (AP) — An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of seven.4 hit off a southern Philippine province Friday morning, and a hazardous tsunami was attainable close by.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology mentioned it was anticipating injury and aftershocks from the earthquake, which was centered at sea about 62 kilometers (38 miles) southeast of Manay city in Davao Oriental province and was attributable to motion in a fault at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles),
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Middle in Honolulu mentioned hazardous waves have been attainable inside 300 kilometers (186 miles) of the epicenter.
It mentioned waves as much as 3 meters (10 toes) above regular tides have been attainable on some Philippine coasts close to the epicenter. Smaller waves have been attainable in Indonesia and Palau.
