MANILA, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) — An offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 struck Surigao del Sur province in the southern Philippines on Saturday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reported.
The institute said the quake, which occurred at 6:22 a.m. local time, hit at a depth of 9 kilometers, about 66 kilometers northeast of Lingig, a coastal town.
The tremor was also felt in m