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A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the south coast of the Philippines on Saturday (29).
According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, there is no tsunami threat. Initially, there was a warning about the risk of tsunami waves on the shores of the Philippines, Indonesia and Palau at less than 0.3 meters above the tide level.
The earthquake hypocentre was located 59 kilometers below the seabed and 183 kilometers southeast of Davao, the main city of Mindanao, according to data from the United States Geological Survey.
According to Reuters, the earthquake occurred at a time when Indonesia was hit by two major tsunamis this year.
The first was caused by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake on the west coast of Sulawesi Island in September. More than 2,000 people were killed.
The second tsunami occurred on Saturday night, when part of a volcanic island collapsed in the Sunda Strait, between the islands of Java and Sumatra, causing waves of tsunami that killed more than 400 people.
The Philippines and Indonesia are both in the Pacific Fire Belt, a range of horseshoe-shaped volcanoes and fault lines surrounding the shores of the Pacific Ocean.
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