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A magnitude-6.2 earthquake struck off the coast of the southern Philippines on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey, just one week after a powerful tremor in the same region killed at least 65 people.
The latest quake hit off Mindanao island at 5:18 p.m. local time (09:18 a.m. GMT) at a depth of 112 kilometers. No tsunami warning has been issued, and there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
Kaiser Cadiz from the Davao Oriental provincial disaster office told AFP that officials were checking coastal areas for possible signs of a tsunami, including water receding from the shore.
"Our priority now is to monitor the coast to determine if there are indications the water had receded," she said, adding that no such signs had been observed so far.
The tremor came a week after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Mindanao on June 8, bringing down buildings, triggering landslides and displacing thousands of people across the southern island.
The national disaster agency raised the death toll from that quake to 65 on Monday, while at least 36 people remained missing.
Earthquakes are common in the Philippines because 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.
Eastern Mindanao was also hit by two strong earthquakes in October, with magnitudes of 7.4 and 6.7. Those tremors killed at least eight people.
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