There was no threat of a tsunami hitting the Philippines after a strong earthquake struck near Papua New Guinea and Indonesia at noon Saturday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.
No Filipino was injured in the 7.7-magnitude earthquake that rocked an island off the west coast of Canada Saturday (Sunday in Manila).
Floods, storms, earthquakes and a tsunami displaced 14.9 million people last year, 89 percent of them in Asia, according to an estimate by two Norwegian-backed agencies issued here Tuesday.
The Philippines is not among the countries under tsunami watch, following the 8.6 magnitude earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia Wednesday afternoon, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
As one nears the airport here, an hour’s drive from the city center, one can notice backhoes in open spaces near the coast just as often as seeing carabaos or threshers in rice fields along the North Luzon Expressway in the Philippines during the harvest season.
In this city where a Filipino woman died in the March 11 tsunami, a newspaper provided information against all odds to people who needed it as much as food, water and shelter in times of great suffering and distress.
Filipinos may take comfort in the thought that aside from the material and financial aid they had sent to Japan, prefabricated units built in the Philippines are now housing thousands of families displaced by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters that hit the country earlier this year.
Everything seems back to normal in this sleepy rural city north of Tokyo.
Despite the huge problems with its economy and the aftermath of the killer earthquake and tsunami that hit parts of the country this year, Japan has kept its promise of continued support for its development projects in the Philippines with over P435 million in fresh aid to its southern neighbor. The funds will go to [...]
