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Images show people screaming and taking cover in a shopping mall in General Santos City, less than a hundred kilometers from the epicenter of a magnitude 6.7 earthquake that shook the southern Philippines. 

The USGS reports the earthquake struck at 8:14 UTC and was centered about 27 kilometers off the southern coast of the Philippines’ Mindano region, at a depth of about 77 km. International warning agencies said there was no threat of tsunami from the event. 

The Philippines Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reported that aftershocks can be expected. 

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