MANILA – There are no immediate reports of deaths or damages as a 6.4-magnitude earthquake hit off the northern coast of the Philippines on Sunday, local seismologists said.
There is no immediate tsunami alert, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said, but a close monitoring is being done on the northern areas.
The earthquake was located 117 kilometres (70 miles) northeast of Laoag city in Luzon Island at a depth of 50 kilometres, the institute said.
In the meantime, on Sunday a earthquake of 5.5-magnitude struck off Taiwan jolting buildings in the capital, seismologists said, but there were no reports of damage and a tsunami warning was not issued.
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