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		</div><p>Back-to-back earthquakes have cracked small buildings and blocked roads with minor landslides in a Philippine resort province south of Manila.</p>
<p>Officials said a magitude 5.6 earthquake struck near Mabini town in Batangas province at midafternoon, followed shortly by a magnitude 6 quake, prompting many people to rush out of homes and beach resorts.<br />
There were no immediate reports of injuries.</p>
<p>The quakes were felt in outlying regions, including in Manila, the capital, where people rushed out of some buildings and hotels in panic as the ground shook and chandeliers swayed.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our tourists left out of fear they may be affected by the earthquakes,&#8221; Mayor Noel Luistro of Mabini, which is popular for diving and snorkeling, told DZMM radio network. &#8220;I need to declare a state of calamity.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hundreds of villagers fled from their homes to higher ground, fearing a tsunami, although government seismologists did not declare any such threat.</p>
<p>A stone church was damaged, a house collapsed and minor landslides partially blocked some roads elsewhere in Batangas, where inter-island ferries were briefly stopped from venturing to sea at the start of the summer travel season as coast guard officials made sure there was no threat of a tsunami.</p>
<p>The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the first quake struck at a depth of 17 miles, while the second was 15 miles deep. The US Geological Survey said both were about 26 miles deep.</p>
<p>The Philippines sits on the Pacific &#8220;Ring of Fire,&#8221; where earthquakes and volcanoes are common.<br />
A magnitude 7.7 quake killed nearly 2,000 people on the northern island of Luzon in 1990.</p>
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