REUTERS/Lisa Marie David Acquire Licensing RightsMANILA, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Workers, residents, and students evacuated buildings in the Philippine capital Manila on Tuesday after an earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck off the main Luzon island, according to the state seismology agency and images carried by media.
It recorded the offshore earthquake at magnitude 5.9, with a depth of 79 kilometres (49.09 miles).
Images shared by media on X showed government workers leaving congress, senate, presidential palace, justice ministry buildings.
Three people died from a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck the southern Philippines on Saturday night.
A separate magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Mindanao early Monday morning.
Persons:
Lisa Marie David Acquire, Michael Orayani, Neil Jerome Morales, Mikhail Flores, Kanupriya Kapoor
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Locations:
Manila, Philippines, Rights MANILA, Philippine, Luzon, Lubang, Occidental Mindoro, Mindanao