M anila, Philippines —The Philippines warned of “high tsunami waves” and called for the evacuation of coastal areas across the country Wednesday after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake in ...

In his directive, Nepomuceno emphasized the importance of clearly mapped evacuation ... for the Philippines. The memorandum said that anticipated areas likely to be impacted by a tsunami are ...

A volcano in the central Philippines ... The area on the island of Negros around Kanlaon Volcano, one of 24 active volcanoes in the Southeast Asian nation, was still under evacuation orders ...

An Asahi Shimbun telephone survey of all 139 municipalities in Tokyo and 13 prefectures from Chiba to Kagoshima found that 81, or 58.3 percent, have yet to designate evacuation areas for tsunami ...