by abs-cbnnews.com
Nearly a quarter of a million people returned to their homes all along the eastern coast of the Philippines Saturday as the threat of a tsunami from Japan's devastating quake subsided, officials said.
The Philippine government ordered the country's mostly rural Pacific seaboard cleared of people on Friday hours after a magnitude 8.9 quake unleashed tsunamis on Japan's east coast and triggered a Pacific-wide alert.
The Philippine government ordered the country's mostly rural Pacific seaboard cleared of people on Friday hours after a magnitude 8.9 quake unleashed tsunamis on Japan's east coast and triggered a Pacific-wide alert.