Magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Mindanao, Philippines -EMSC

(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck the Mindanao region of the Philippines early Saturday morning, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.

The quake’s epicentre was at a depth of 60 km (37.28 miles), the EMSC said.

EMSC had initially pegged the earthquake at 6.1 magnitude.

(Reporting by Gokul Pisharody in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie Adler and Franklin Paul)

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