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Tsunami Alert Level 2 for Philippines after Japan Earthquake

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has issued a tsunami warning, now at Tsunami Alert Level 2, as of 3:30 on March 11, 2011. (Update: As of 11:30 p.m. of the same day, Phivolcs issued a Tsunami Alert Cancellation through Bulletin No. 3, stating that that “threat of a hazardous tsunami had passed”. The public, however, is “advised to avoid going to the beach and sailing out to sea.”) Phivolcs’ Tsunami Bulletin No. 2 reads in full: (more…)