Singapore: More than 60 people are feared dead in the central Philippines after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake brought down buildings, triggered landslides and possibly stirred a volcano.

The quake struck about 12am on Wednesday AESTjust off Bogo City, in the north of Cebu Province, with a depth of 10 kilometres, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.

Bogo City hospital was overwhelmed with scores of injured people, Reuters reported, citing a local official. The city has a population of about 90,000.

The damage appeared to be concentrated in Cebu, about 90 minutes by air from Manila, but other areas in the dense island chain were also affected.

The impact of the disaster is still being assessed, but it comes on the back of weeks of flooding brought on by typhoons Bua

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