(Reuters) – A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Leyte in central Philippines on Friday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said.
The Philippines’ seismology agency in a bulletin said damage and aftershocks from the offshore quake should be expected.
The archipelago nation is in the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” where volcanic activity and earthquakes are common.
(Reporting by Disha Mishra in Bengaluru and Neil Jerome Morales in Manila; Editing by Timothy Heritage, Martin Petty)
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