False alert causes panic in Philippines
2 Dec 2013 6:21 AM IST
Officials in the province of Antique were visiting upland villages where people had fled overnight to convince them there was no danger and it was safe to return to their coastal homes, said Broderick Train, the civil defence chief for the province.
‘These are people who have been traumatised by their experience with Typhoon (Haiyan). When the false information began spreading yesterday they immediately fled,’ he said in a telephone interview.
He said the provincial government was trying to convince them to return home as there had been no earthquake to trigger a tsunami.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said it had not recorded any big earthquakes over the weekend and had not issued any tsunami alert.
‘These are people who have been traumatised by their experience with Typhoon (Haiyan). When the false information began spreading yesterday they immediately fled,’ he said in a telephone interview.
He said the provincial government was trying to convince them to return home as there had been no earthquake to trigger a tsunami.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said it had not recorded any big earthquakes over the weekend and had not issued any tsunami alert.
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