A magnitude 6.4 earthquake shakes the northern Philippines

MADRID, 26 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 on the open Richter scale has shaken the northern Philippines on Tuesday, as reported by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).

The tremor was recorded at 10:59 p.m. (local time, 4:59 p.m. Spanish peninsular time) on Tuesday, seven kilometers northeast of the town of Lagayan, in the province of Abr, and at a depth of 15 kilometers.

Although no fatalities have been recorded, at least 26 people have been injured. In addition, the earthquake has caused considerable damage to a hospital, which is why the evacuation of 200 patients would have been carried out, as reported by local authorities to 'Philstar'.

The Philippines is located on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," where about 90 percent of the world's earthquakes occur.

The last major earthquake to hit the country was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that killed more than 220 people in the central Philippines in October 2013.

In July 1990, more than 2,400 people died on the northern island of Luzon in a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest to hit the country.