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Keep calm and be alert.
“The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has raised a tsunami alert over 20 provinces in the country following the magnitude-8.3 quake that hit Chile across the Pacific Ocean,” reports Mar S. Arguelles in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
However, Phivolcs has not given any evacuation order. It only urged the “monitoring of sea level changes,” as the Chile earthquake had the potential of generating a destructive tsunami.
The following coastal communities fronting the Philippine Sea/Pacific Ocean were told to be on alert:
1. Batanes Group of Islands
2. Sorsogon
3. Cagayan
4. Northern Samar
5. Ilocos Norte
6. Eastern Samar
7. Isabela
8. Leyte
9. Quezon
10. Southern Leyte
11. Aurora
12. Surigao del Norte
13. Camarines Norte
14. Surigao del Sur
15. Camarines Sur
16. Davao Oriental
17. Albay
18. Davao del Sur
19. Catanduanes
20. Davao Occidental
