Received a text stating "new tsunami on the way, but from mountain this time, not sea!" That ought to empty out Valencia. Larry in Dumaguete
Wow, excellent... perhaps the fortune-tellers will next predict a landslide coming down on us from the sea...
A tsunami of people maybe! The ones who went in droves to the hills are are going to come back eventually.
grasp some cold ones on the way down at Edelweiss and lets meet at the boulevard, I take the flush from the Tierra Alta site...
What the local government of Dumaguete was worried about when people rushed to Valencia was landslide. Since we recently experienced Sendong, a heavy rain typhoon which flooded some areas of the city and damaged a lot of houses and properties, the soil at the mountains of Valencia is still wet and loose. You could imagine how it is when it was shaken by a 6.9 intensity earthquake. It would be prone to landslide. Besides that, the Twin Lake could be hazardous to crack and give way pouring its water to the countryside. That was the concern, but everything is stable now.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology issued a Level 2 tsunami alert for areas along the Tanon Strait between Negros and the neighboring island of Cebu. Local radio stations have caused panic by advising people to leave the coastline and look for higher grounds.
