The quake struck off the eastern side of Mindanao island, 123 kilometers (79 miles) from the island's biggest city, Davao, at a depth of 58.1 kilometers (36 miles), around 9:45 am Friday morning local time, according to the USGS. There were no immediate reports of damage.
A "destructive tsunami is expected with life-threatening wave heights," said the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), warning people in coastal areas of the eastern and southern Philippines to evacuate. Phivolcs put the quake's magnitude at 7.6.
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