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A Filipino vendor walks barefoot as he pushes his wares covered with a plastic sheet in suburban San Mateo, Rizal Province, east of Manila, Philippines.
Manila -
A major 7.9 earthquake hit the sea area east of the Philippines on Friday and a tsunami warning was issued for the archipelago, Indonesia, Taiwan and Japan, US seismologists said.
The US Geological Survey said the quake had a depth of 34
kilometres (21 miles) and hit at 8:47 pm (1247 GMT) some 139
kilometres east of the city of Sulangan, eastern Samar.
A tsunami warning was also issued for Papua New Guinea and Guam, and a tsunami watch was in effect for the Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands and Nauru, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in a bulletin.
The warning center said any wave generated by the quake would be expected to hit Indonesia first. - Sapa-AFP
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