Six killed as 7.4 magnitude quake strikes off southern Philippines; tsunami alert lifted

A powerful magnitude-7.4 earthquake struck off the southern Philippines on Friday, killing at least six people and triggering regional tsunami warnings that were later lifted.

The quake struck about 20 kilometres (12 miles away) from Manay in the Mindanao region at 9:43 am (0143 GMT), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.

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One person was killed when a wall collapsed in Mati city, the largest population hub near the quake's epicentre, police said.

Philippine authorities issued a tsunami warning and ordered evacuations of coastal communities on the country's eastern seaboard deemed at risk from waves of up to three metres (10 feet) high.

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"Destructive tsunami is expected with life-threatening wave heights" on the archipelago nation's east coast, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology had reported.

Coastal residents in these areas "are strongly advised to immediately evacuate to higher grounds or move farther inland," it added.

It struck just 11 days after a 6.9-magnitude quake killed 74 people and destroyed or damaged about 72,000 houses in the central island of Cebu.