A magnitude-6.0 earthquake struck the central Philippine island of Samar at 2:09pm (0609 GMT) on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
The quake hit at a depth of 73.3 kilometres, around nine kilometres from the coastal town of San Julian in the province.
A local police officer told AFP that the tremor felt “strong and sudden,” but no immediate reports of injuries were received.
He said one of the beams supporting the roof of the police station broke during the shaking. He also said furniture moved inside the building. Officers later moved outside due to fears of aftershocks.
Earthquakes occur almost daily in the Philippines as the country sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, a zone of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin.
In October, eastern Mindanao was hit by two quakes measuring 7.4 and 6.7 magnitude, which killed at least eight people.
Those events followed a 6.9 magnitude earthquake days earlier that killed 76 people and destroyed or damaged around 72,000 houses in Cebu province in central Philippines, according to government figures.
