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TOKYO, Japan — A worker at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has had a high radiation level detected in his nose, authorities said, in a reminder of the hazards involved in cleaning up the facility crippled in 2011.
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Social Welfare and Development has released more than P57.3 million in assistance to earthquake victims in Mindanao, according to DSWD Assistant Secretary for legislative affairs Irene Dumlao.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck Saturday off the southern Philippine coast, prompting many villagers to flee their homes in panic around midnight after Philippine authorities issued a tsunami warning.
MORE than P57.37 million worth of food and non-food relief items have been distributed to the victims of the 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Surigao del Sur, data from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) showed.
A powerful earthquake that shook the southern Philippines killed at least one villager and injured several others as thousands scrambled out of their homes in panic and jammed roads to higher grounds after a tsunami warning was issued, officials said Sunday.
MANILA, Philippines — Communities are left reeling a week after two strong earthquakes hit the province of Surigao del Norte, with damages racking up as of press time.
I was recently reminded of the 2013 earthquake and typhoon that hit Visayas because Mindanao has been rocked by earthquakes in the past few weeks, and thoughts of Yolanda also recalled the ongoing issue between Vice President Sara Duterte and Speaker Martin Romualdez. Both have roots to Leyte, which Typhoon Yolanda devastated in 2013. During the 10th anniversary commemoration of Yolanda this year, the Duterte and Romualdez surnames have been trending as comparisons were made between how, in 2013, then mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte immediately visited Leyte and sent assistance and personnel just days after Yolanda with the usual “from the people of Davao” emblazoned on the relief goods, as opposed to Speaker Romualdez’s recent photos of relief goods and other projects which prominently display his and his wife’s faces and names.
MANILA, Philippines: Following weeks of «general decline» in unrest, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Friday downgraded the alert status of Mayon Volcano in Albay province to Level 2.