MANILA: A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Mindanao, Philippines, on Saturday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
The quake was 10 km (6 miles) deep, GFZ said.
The Philippine seismology agency had a different reading, saying it was a magnitude 5.9 earthquake with a depth of 27 km (16.8 miles). The Philippine agency also said in a bulletin it was expecting no damage, but that there could be aftershocks.
Rescue workers searching for dozens of missing people in an earlier landslide in Maco town in the southern Philippines province of Davao de Oro had to stop their operations because of the earthquake, authorities said.
The death toll from the landslide, which happened on Tuesday night outside a gold mining site, has reached 28, with 77 still missing and 32 injured, including a 3-year-old girl rescued on Friday after 60 hours under rubble.
Torrential rains have battered Davao de Oro in recent weeks, triggering floods and landslides.
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Earthquake of magnitude 5.6 strikes Mindanao, Philippines — GFZ
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Earthquake of magnitude 5.6 strikes Mindanao, Philippines — GFZ
- Philippine seismology agency says earthquake is of a magnitude 5.9 with a depth of 27 km
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A planned announcement of an $800 billion prosperity plan to be agreed between Ukraine, Europe and the US at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week has been delayed, the report said, citing six officials.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Tensions over Greenland disrupted negotiations on the prosperity plan text this week, the FT report said, adding that the US did not send a representative to a key meeting on Monday evening.
The “prosperity plan” was not being shelved indefinitely and could still be signed at a later date, the newspaper added.
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A planned announcement of an $800 billion prosperity plan to be agreed between Ukraine, Europe and the US at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week has been delayed, the report said, citing six officials.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“Nobody is in any mood to stage a grand spectacle around an agreement with Trump right now,” one official told the FT, adding that disputes over Greenland and the Board of Peace had overtaken an earlier focus on Ukraine at the Davos meeting.
Tensions over Greenland disrupted negotiations on the prosperity plan text this week, the FT report said, adding that the US did not send a representative to a key meeting on Monday evening.
The “prosperity plan” was not being shelved indefinitely and could still be signed at a later date, the newspaper added.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that he would travel to Davos only if documents on security guarantees with the United States and a prosperity plan were ready to be signed there.
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