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Tsunami alert canceled in RP, as threat is over
(philstar.com) Updated February 28, 2010 06:00 PM
MANILA, Philippines (Xinhua) - The Philippines has canceled tsunami alert after the country's eastern coastlines passed the one and a half hour critical period ending 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
"By 4:30 p.m., if no other significant sea level changes were observed, local authorities and the public can assume that the tsunami threat has passed. People may resume their normal activities," said a report released by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS).
"As of 3:00 p.m., the PHIVOLCS has not received any reports of unusual waves in the Philippine coats from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Other observations of the passage of tsunami in nearby countries show that the waves are small and non-damaging," the report said.
The PHIVOLCS raised the tsunami alert level to 2 at 7:00 a.m. in areas along the coast of the Philippines fronting the Pacific Ocean, as a tsunami was to approach the country within hours.
The government urged residents in 19 provinces facing the Pacific Ocean to move to higher grounds and advised people to stay away from the shoreline during the period between 1:00 p.m. to 2: 30 p.m.
Hundreds of residents in the east coast of Mindanao in southern Philippines moved to higher grounds Sunday morning.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Sunday that some 75 Filipinos in earthquake-devastated Chile were reported safe and accounted for.
Citing reports from the Philippine Embassy in Santiago, DFA spokesman Eduardo Malaya said in media interviews that no Filipino was reported killed or seriously harmed in the 8.8 quake that struck the Latin American state Saturday.
He said the Filipinos in Chile work as missionaries, engineers, businessmen, and are spouses of Chile nationals.
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