A powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit the southern Philippines Thursday. There were no immediate reports of damage and a tsunami warning was not issued. 

The US Geological Survey, the earthquake hit about 310 kilometres (193 miles) southeast of Davao city on the main southern island of Mindanao at a depth of 95 kilometres at 8:23 pm local time.

Police chief Captain Glabynarry Murillo told AFP, Residents in the town of Jose Abad Santos, near the southern tip of the island, lost electricity for about 15 minutes after the quake shook the region but there was no damage.  Murillo said, "from our vantage point at the police station we saw many residents rushing outside." "We also rushed outside because the police station is a three-storey building." The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology warned of aftershocks but said damage was not expected. Renato Solidum, director of the institute, told DZBB radio station, "It was felt extensively because it's a major earthquake but it's deep so it won't be damaging to the infrastructure because it's considerably far from the island." 

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