Jakarta, June 8 -- The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has lifted the tsunami early warning following a magnitude 7.7 earthquake near Mindanao, Philippines, after monitoring confirmed that sea levels had stabilized.

BMKG Head Teuku Faisal Fathani announced that the warning status was officially cleared at 10:15 a.m. Western Indonesian Time (WIB) on Monday.

"Considering the current conditions related to observations in several affected areas, there is no longer any significant, dangerous sea level rise. Therefore, the tsunami early warning is declared over," he stated.

According to him, lifting the warning is crucial for the joint disaster management team to immediately carry out necessary consolidation and rescue...