Powerful quakes in southern Philippines leave houses and buildings damaged

Houses and buildingsare damaged, and medical workers attend to patients outdoors in Manay, Davao Oriental province, after two powerful earthquakes struck off the southern Philippines on Friday, killing at least eight people and triggering tsunami warnings.

The biggest of the quakes, with a magnitude of 7.4, hit about 12 miles off Manay town in the Mindanao region.  An aftershock with a magnitude of 6.7 rocked the same area almost 10 hours later, one of scores that followed the morning quake.