A strong earthquake rocked the Philippines Saturday, triggering aftershocks and a tsunami warning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
The 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck off the southeast coast of the island of Mindanao at 10:37 p.m. (09:37 a.m. EST), per the USGS Interactive Map. The coastal municipality of Hinatuan in Surigaro del Sur Province was the closest to the epicenter of the earthquake. The earthquake’s fault waves rippled across the Philippine islands up to Cebu, about 300 miles north of Hinatuan, and General Santos City, over 200 miles southward.
There were at least four other quakes of at least 6.0 in magnitude in the Philippine Sea off the island, the USGS earthquake map showed.
The earthquakes triggered a raft of tsunami warnings, per the US Tsunami Warning System. One such warning was “for Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and…
