Videos posted by local media showed people rushing out of their homes on Cebu, a 200km-long island of 3.4 million people, as the ground shook and buildings collapsed.
Huge cracks opened in roads and motorcyclists scrambled to safety on the rails of a bridge that shook rapidly from side to side.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr assured survivors of swift assistance.
“We are assessing the damage, we are assessing the needs,” he told reporters.
The Philippines sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire” and experiences more than 800 quakes each year.
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