The quake hit about 20 kilometres (12 miles away) from Manay in the Mindanao region at 9:43 am (0143 GMT), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said.
Coastal residents in these areas “are strongly advised to immediately evacuate to higher grounds or move farther inland,“ it added.
There were no immediate reports of casualties, though police officer Dianne Lacorda told AFP the province of Davao Oriental, which includes Manay, expects damage.
'Shaking was so strong'
“It was very slow at first then it got stronger.... That’s the longest time of my life. We weren’t able to walk out of the building immediately because the shaking was so strong,“ she said.
Kath Cortez, a local journalist based in Davao city to the west of Manay, told AFP the ground floor walls of her family's house were showing small cracks.
Around the same time as the Philippine quake, USGS reported a shallow 6.2 magnitude temblor just over 140 kilometres southeast of Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.
The latest Philippine quake struck just 11 days after a 6.9-magnitude quake killed 74 people and destroyed or damaged about 72,000 houses in the central island of Cebu.
Earthquakes are a near-daily occurrence in the Philippines, which is situated on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, an arc of intense seismic activity stretching from Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin - AFP
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