There is no tsunami threat to the Philippines following the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck the Alaska Peninsula early Thursday morning, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).

An earthquake of magnitude 6 struck the Alaska Peninsula, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said on Wednesday. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.21 miles), GFZ said. (Reporting by Yazhini MV in Bengaluru;

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck Alaska on Wednesday afternoon and a tsunami warning was canceled two hours later for the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island.