Quake Leyte
The US Geological Survey said the earthquake hit near Tutubigan, 68km from Tacloban, and hundreds of kilometres south of the quake that hit near Manila. Image Credit: USGS

MANILA: A 6.4-magnitude tremor struck the southern Philippines on Tuesday, US geologists said, just a day after a deadly quake that rocked the country's north.

The US Geological Survey said the earthquake hit near Tutubigan, which is hundreds of kilometres south of the quake that hit near Manila.

The fresh quake's epicentre is about 800km from the Monday quake's epicentre on northern Luzon.

Quake hits Visayas
The Philippines' eastern Visayas region was hit by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake on Tuesday, a stronger then the one that hit northern Luzon and Manila on Monday. Image Credit: Social Media

USGS downgraded the magnitude of the fresh quake after initially recording it at 6.6.

The tremors were felt as far as Sorsogon and Albay in the Bicol peninsula, on the island of Luzon.