A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the Philippines on Tuesday, killing at least one person, injuring four others and damaging roads and buildings.
According to officials, a hospital and a sports complex, which was being used as a coronavirus quarantine centre, were also damaged.
Patients were later moved into tents, as engineers checked the damages to determine if the building was safe.
It was the strongest earthquake in eight months in the Philippines, which lies on the "Ring of Fire," a seismically active belt of volcanoes circling the Pacific Ocean.
The quake struck at sea at a depth of 30 km, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said, with no risk of a tsunami.
It comes as the country records more than 164,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 2,681 deaths.
Four crew members and two rescuers have been killed in an attack by Houthis on a cargo ship in the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Tuesday, Yemen's transport ministry said, while the US military said it struck a container ship attempting to sail toward an Iranian port.
A ferry travelling from the Indonesian tourist island of Bali with around 130 people on board has caught fire in waters off Lombok on Wednesday morning, with the evacuation of the passengers underway, officials said.
Rescue crews dug through mountains of shattered concrete in western Colombia on Tuesday, racing to find survivors after a powerful earthquake killed more than 250 people, according to estimates from local authorities.
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile on Wednesday toward the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast, South Korean and Japanese authorities said, days ahead of major joint military exercises by Seoul and Washington long denounced by Pyongyang.
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