Quake in Philippines sends people running out of homes

A powerful earthquake of 6.7 pre -sized shook the Middle Philippines, sent people thrown into the streets, damaging a stone church, and in some regions he overturned power.

The earthquake was centralized about 17 km northeast of Bogo City in Cebu province and caused by a local error.

The Philippine Volcanology and Seismology Institute, said he expects damage and aftershock shocks.

Power, the stone church, where the town of Cebu Daanbantayan’da came out.

The scope of the damage to the church was immediately unknown.

The Philippines, one of the world’s most catastrophic countries, are often influenced by earthquakes and volcanic explosions due to the position of the seismic errors around the ocean on the Pacific “Fire Ring”.

The archipelago is polluted by about 20 typhoons and storms each year.