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 doable 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 brought on by motion in a fault at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles),
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Heart in Honolulu mentioned hazardous waves had been doable inside 300 kilometers (186 miles) of the epicenter.
It mentioned waves as much as 3 meters (10 ft) above regular tides had been doable on some Philippine coasts close to the epicenter. Smaller waves had been doable in Indonesia and Palau.
