A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the southern coast of the Philippines on Friday, killing at least six people. A second strong aftershock measuring 6.9 hit later the same day, claiming at least one more life and prompting tsunami warnings across the region, Al Jazeera reported, citing a local authorities statement.

This one-two punch of seismic activity hit just 10 days after another deadly quake rocked the central Philippines, leaving 79 people dead and hundreds more injured. The first quake struck at 9:43 AM local time (01:43 GMT) on Friday, originating at a depth of 43 kilometres (27 miles) beneath the ocean off the coast of Manay town in Davao Oriental, part of the Mindanao region.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) confirmed that the eart

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