Panicked students poured into the streets after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked their dormitories in the Philippines.

The pupils and other residents in the neighbourhood vacated the buildings when the tremors struck the town of Echague in Isabela province on October 25 evening.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the earthquake struck at a depth of 28 kilometres in Tineg, Abra at 10.59 pm local time.

The quake has triggered suspensions in school and government work in neighbouring Ilocos Norte province.

Local media has reported damage to infrastructure, but no casualties have been reported so far.

Abra province was also the epicentre of a devastating magnitude 7 earthquake that struck last July 27.

The Philippines is an archipelago of more than 7,000 islands inside the Pacific "Ring of " where the majority of Earth's volcano eruptions and earthquakes happen.

Panicked students poured into the streets after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked their dormitories in the Philippines.

The pupils and other residents in the neighbourhood vacated the buildings when the tremors struck the town of Echague in Isabela province on October 25 evening.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the earthquake struck at a depth of 28 kilometres in Tineg, Abra at 10:59 pm local time on Tuesday.

The quake has triggered suspensions in school and government work in neighbouring Ilocos Norte province.

Local media has reported damage to infrastructure, but no casualties have been reported so far.

Abra province was also the epicentre of a devastating magnitude 7 earthquake that struck last July 27.

The Philippines is an archipelago of more than 7,000 islands inside the Pacific 'Ring of Fire' where the majority of Earth's volcano eruptions and earthquakes happen.