{"id":13968,"date":"2012-09-01T02:09:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T02:09:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-01T02:09:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T02:09:11","slug":"132-000-return-home-after-Philippine-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=13968","title":{"rendered":"132,000 return home after Philippine tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Residents on the Philippines&#8217; Pacific coast described how they ran for their lives when a major offshore earthquake triggered a tsunami warning, as thousands returned home today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Most people had fled the east coast by the time waves of up to half a meter (20 inches) hit coastal areas within an hour of the 7.6-magnitude quake striking offshore late Friday<\/strong>, civil defence chief Benito Ramos said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They feared they would be swamped by waves as large as those in the (March 2011) Japan tsunami, so it was not difficult to convince them to leave,&#8221; 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