(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 07 - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit the Philippines today: the US Geophysical Institute, Usgs, reports it on its website.
The earthquake was located 4 km southeast of San Mariano, in the Davao region (south), at a depth of 38.6 km.
So far, no injuries or victims have been reported.
An employee of the Maragusan disaster office in Mindanao's mountainous Davao de Oro province said authorities were checking reports of a landslide on a national highway.
"We have not received any reports of other damage or casualties, but we are monitoring villages around the city," he added.
The first shock was followed by another of magnitude 5.6 in an area close to the epicenter of the first earthquake, 9 km north-east of Bantacan (at a depth of 10 km), a few kilometers north-east of San Mariano.
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