This week’s earthquake comes about eight months after a deadly 7.4 earthquake struck near the Philippines in October.

A magnitude-7.8 earthquake that struck offshore of the Philippines island of Mindanao at 7:37 A.M. local time is the largest earthquake to hit anywhere in the world so far this year, according to U.S....

Aftershocks up to 6.1 magnitude followed, the U.S. Geological Survey said.