A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippines on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 7:39 a.m. Philippine time about 4 miles southeast of Liloan,

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off the central Philippines on Thursday, damaging buildings and a road near its epicentre, authorities said.

This is the moment office workers fled when an earthquake shook their building in the Philippines this morning. CCTV shows the tremors shaking desks inside the call centre in Zamboanga del Norte province at 11:41 am local time.

The U.S. military has moved its Typhon launchers - which can fire multipurpose missiles up to thousands of kilometres - from Laoag airfield in the Philippines to another location on the island of Luzon,

The deployment of the U.S. military's Typhon launchers in the Philippines was in line with Washington's longstanding defence ties with the country, the Philippine armed forces said on Friday. "The primary objective of this deployment is to strengthen Philippine military readiness,

New U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed China's "dangerous and destabilizing actions in the South China Sea" with his Philippine counterpart on Wednesday and underscored the "ironclad" U.S.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio reaffirmed Washington's commitment to Manila and condemned Beijing for its "dangerous and destabilising" actions in the Sea, in his first phone call with Philippine Foreign Secretary Enrique Manalo.