Earthquake hits Philippines’ Luzon island, rattling Manila
Aljazeera says An earthquake has hit the northern Philippines, shattering windows at its epicentre and causing high-rise towers to shake more than 400km (249 miles) away in the capital Manila.
The quake, which struck the mountainous and lightly populated province of Abra on the main island of Luzon at 8:43am local time (00:43 GMT) on Wednesday, was measured at a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 by the US Geological Survey (USGS), 7.2 by the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) and 7.3 by the Philippines Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
Phivolcs later revised the magnitude down to 7.0, but the quake is the strongest to have hit the Philippines in years.