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1. Tsunamis are generated by earthquakes under the sea, which can be felt on land and cause unusual sea level changes and rumbling sounds of approaching waves. 2. It is important for communities to learn tsunami safety measures like moving to higher ground after an earthquake or sea level change and not going to the beach to watch for tsunamis. 3. The Philippines faces threats from both local tsunamis generated by nearby earthquakes as well as distant tsunamis that take hours to arrive from other Pacific countries.

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Tsunami

1. Tsunamis are generated by earthquakes under the sea, which can be felt on land and cause unusual sea level changes and rumbling sounds of approaching waves. 2. It is important for communities to learn tsunami safety measures like moving to higher ground after an earthquake or sea level change and not going to the beach to watch for tsunamis. 3. The Philippines faces threats from both local tsunamis generated by nearby earthquakes as well as distant tsunamis that take hours to arrive from other Pacific countries.

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The diagrams shows how tsunamis are generated

when an earthquake occurs under the sea


A felt earthquake
Unusual Sea Level Change
Rumbling Sound of Approaching
Waves
Tsunami Safety and Preparedness
Measures
Each one of us in the community should learn some important Tsunami Safety and
Preparedness Measures such as the following:
1. Do not stay in low-lying coastal areas after a felt earthquake. Move to higher
grounds immediately.
2. If unusual sea conditions like rapid lowering of sea level are observed,
immediately move towards high grounds.
3. Never go down the beach to watch for a tsunami. When you see the wave, you are
too close to escape it.
4. During the retreat of sea level, interesting sights are often revealed. Fishes may be
stranded on dry land thereby attracting people to collect them. Also sandbars and
coral flats may be exposed. These scenes tempt people to flock to the shoreline
thereby increasing the number of people at risk.
Tsunami Threat in the Philippines
• There are two types of tsunami generation: Local
tsunami and Far Field or distant tsunami. The
coastal areas in the Philippines especially those
facing the Pacific Ocean, South China Sea, Sulu Sea
and Celebes Sea can be affected by tsunamis that
may be generated by local earthquakes.
• Local tsunamis are confined to coasts within a
hundred kilometers of the source usually
earthquakes and a landslide or a pyroclastics flow.
It can reach the shoreline within 2 to 5 minutes

• Far field or distant tsunamis can travel from 1 to 24


hours before reaching the coast of the nearby
countries. These tsunamis mainly coming from the
countries bordering Pacific Ocean like Chile, Alaska
in USA and Japan.
• The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) and
Northwest Pacific Tsunami Advisory Center
(NWPTAC) are the responsible agencies that closely
monitor Pacific-wide tsunami event and send
tsunami warning to the countries around the Pacific
Ocean.
• The Philippines is frequently visited by tsunamis.
On 17 August 1976, a magnitude 8.1 earthquake in
Moro Gulf produced up to 9-meter high tsunamis
which devastated the southwest coast of Mindanao
and left more than 3,000 people dead, with at least
1,000 people missing. Also on 15 November 1994
Mindoro Earthquake also generated tsunamis that
left 49 casualties

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