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Earthquake hits Philippines’ Luzon island, rattling Manila

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An earthquake has hit the northern Philippines, shattering windows at its epicentre and causing high-rise towers to shake more than 300km (185 miles) away in the capital Manila.
The quake, which struck the mountainous province of Abra on the main island of Luzon at 8:43am local time (00:43 GMT), was measured at a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 by the US Geological Survey (USGS), 7.2 by the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) and 7.3 by the Philippines Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
USGS said the earthquake’s epicentre was about 11km (7 miles) east-southeast of the town of Dolores.

Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Lo joins us via Skype from Manila for the latest updates.

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