Local Residents Living in the coastal area returned to their homes yesterday.
After the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that strike in Japan last Friday, which causes tsunamis destroying millions of properties and killing hundreds of lives. Authorities in the Philippines have warned people living in the coastal area to evacuate immediately seconds after the disaster.
Making sure that everything is back to normal, Officials have already announced to the residents that they can now go back to their homes.
Provinces in the northeastern part of the country, facing the Pacific Ocean were given a Tsunami Alert level 2.
34,300 families who evacuated in five provinces in Bicol were given the permission to return to their homes after tsunami threat has been declared over.
Head of Albay Public Safety and Emergency Management Office Cedric Daep said that the go signal was given by to the local disaster council past midnight on Saturday.
“One meter high waves generated by the Japan quake were seem off the waters of Cagraray Island in Bacacay, Albay” Daep said.
Contradicting to Daep’s statement, Office of Civil Defense in Bicol said that the height of waves that strike the country did not exceed to one meter.
Albay Gov. Joey Salceda thanked media, village officials, local chief executives, soldiers and policemen with the orderly and prompt evacuation of residents. “Thank God” he said.
Including residents in Ilocos Norte, Batanes, Cagayan, Isabela and Aurora, which is estimated to be thousands also started to return home early yesterday.
While the warning is still up, villagers spend their nights in government gymnasium and schools. Others went to high lands to seek for safety.
Residents in Ilocos Norte and Isabela said that they have heard some noise coming from the sea. Covering with fear people started to evacuate away from the coastline.
One of the villagers Rosalie de la Cruz was interviewed and said that the moment she heard the sea roar. She already started to pack all of their things thinking that it was tsunami which is coming.
Rosalie de la Cruz was among the more than 200 residents who returned to their house after warning has been down.