Water spilled from aquariums during a powerful magnitude 5.9 earthquake in the Philippines today.

Footage shows the water sloshing around inside dozens of tanks at a home in Tagum city, Davao del Norte province on March 7.

Resident Dan Pah said the tremors did not damage any of the containers.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake struck at 2:02 pm at a depth of 10 kilometres. It was centred some eight kilometres southeast of New Bataan municipality in Davao de Oro province.

The agency said damage and aftershocks were expected.

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.