PHILIPPINES - The Philippines has been struck by TEN earthquakes today with tremors growing in strength across its 7,000 islands as the Mount Mayon volcano erupted causing widespread evacuations after the alert level was raised to three. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), the region was hit by a series of small tremors on Sunday. The first hit at 5.40am, followed by six others at 07.25am, 2.59pm, 3pm, 4.49pm, 8.01pm and 8.21pm, 9.42pm. The earthquakes were recorded at varying magnitudes - beginning at 2.9 and moving on to record at 2.4, 2.8, 2.5, 2.2, 3.4, 2.3 and 2.4. But the biggest were the last two earthquakes, which struck at 11.20pm and 11.49pm with a magnitude of 4.9 and a whopping 5.2.