This is the dramatic moment brave nurses shield their patient on the operating table as an earthquake strikes in the Philippines.

Footage captured by Nathalie shows technicians, nurses, and doctors calmly guarding the person undergoing surgery as tremors hit the hospital in Davao City, Davao del Sur, on Friday, October 10.

Nathalie said that after the quake, the operation was completed, and the patient is reportedly in stable condition.

State seismology agency PHIVOLCS said the magnitude 7.4 earthquake, downgraded from an earlier magnitude 7.5, struck 44 kilometres (27 miles) northeast of Manay town in Davao Oriental province at 9:43 am local time.

At least two people were killed in collapsed houses in Davao Oriental, provincial Governor Nelson Dayanghirang said.

The quake was recorded offshore at a depth of 23 kilometres (14 miles). It triggered landslides, power outages, and a tsunami warning that has since been lifted.

It is the second major tremor to hit the country. Earlier this month, another deadly earthquake killed at least 74 people in Cebu province, central Philippines.

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.