Word spread quickly across Darwin on Monday after a tsunami watch was issued for the Territory following a major earthquake off the Philippines, but everyone can breathe easy —authorities have called it off.

An 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Mindanao in the Philippines, triggering tsunami warnings across the western Pacific region, including Indonesia and Taiwan.

A recent international scientific study has pinpointed Balerma in El Ejido as the Spanish site likely to bear the brunt of tsunami energy from a rupture along the Averroes fault in the Alboran Sea.