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The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Monday, June 8, announced the temporary suspension of operations in five of its Consular Offices in Mindanao following the powerful magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck off the coast of Sarangani earlier in the day. In an advisory, the DFA 's Office...

Calls for caution intensified on Monday, June 8, as international partners and government agencies urged communities in affected areas to heed tsunami warnings following a strong earthquake off Mindanao. Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Endo Kazuya and the U.S. Embassy in Manila expressed...

Tsunami waves of varying heights, including a maximum recorded height of 1.4 meters, were detected by sea-level monitoring stations following the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck off the coast of Sarangani on Monday morning, June 8, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology...