by Ellalyn De Vera-Ruiz, Manila Bulletin
There is no tsunami threat to the Philippines following the 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Taiwan on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 18, said the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
Phivolcs said the earthquake struck at around 2:44 p.m. The quake occurred at a shallow of 10 kilometers (km).
Although hazardous tsunami waves are possible along coasts within 300 km of the earthquake epicenter, Phivolcs said that there is no destructive tsunami threat to the Philippines from this earthquake.
It defines a tsunami as a series of sea waves commonly generated by under-the-sea earthquakes and whose heights could be greater than 5 meters.
Tsunami is erroneously called tidal waves and sometimes mistakenly associated with storm surges, it added.
