🇵🇭 False tsunami posts circulate online following powerful Philippine quake
Comments to the posts indicate people believed the video showed a tsunami following the earthquake."OH MY GOD PLEASE PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN," said another.
But responding to the posts, Renato Solidum Jr, director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology , told AFP:"That is not a tsunami and will not be life-threatening."Solidum said that the strong waves seen in the video could be from ground movement. "There can be seawater oscillation on coastal areas near the epicenter as the ground is shaking," he said.It reads in part:"There is no tsunami threat to the Philippines from this earthquake.
"However, earthquakes of this size may generate unusual sea level disturbances that may be observed along coasts near earthquake epicenter of Abra province."following the earthquake, Solidum explained the agency has not raised a tsunami warning since the"fault is inland".The US Geological Survey defines a
as a series of waves triggered by"large-scale seafloor displacements associated with large earthquakes, major submarine slides, or exploding volcanic islands".
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