At least 20 people had been confirmed dead and at least 37 were injured, a spokesperson for Cebu told the newspaper. Earthquake monitoring agencies had pegged the depth of the quake at around 10 km (6.2 miles) and recorded multiple aftershocks, the strongest a magnitude of 6. Cebu City in the Philippines' central Visayas region has a population of nearly 1 million, according to the USGS. Police Colonel Enrico Figueroa, chief of the Cebu City police, said some pole-mounted transformers exploded during the earthquake. In 2023, a 6.7 magnitude offshore earthquake killed eight people.