Tsunami Earthquakes Hits JAPAN!!

The record-setting 8.9 magnitude earthquake that rocked Japan today sent millions around the globe to social media websites to spread news, share videos and donate to help victims of the quake and the tsunami in the Pacific. n the immediate aftermath of the disaster, Japan's mobile phones were largely silenced because of a spike in demand. For many, including American travelers and expats, Facebook and Twitter became the best link to worried family members.

According to the news the official number of dead and missing after a devastating earthquake and tsunami that flattened Japan's northeast coast has topped 15,000, police said on Thursday.

The number of confirmed dead from Friday's twin disasters rose to 5692 while the official number of missing increased to 9522, the National Police Agency said in its latest update.

A total of 2409 people were injured in the disaster.

But reports have indicated that the final toll could be much higher.

The mayor of the coastal town of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture said late on Wednesday that the number of missing there was likely to hit 10,000, Kyodo News reported.

On Saturday, public broadcaster NHK reported that around 10,000 people were unaccounted for in the port town of Minamisanriku in the same prefecture.

Amid a mass rescue effort there were grim updates indicating severe loss of life along the battered east coast of Honshu island, where the monster waves destroyed or damaged more than 55,380 homes and other buildings.

LETS HELP JAPAN!!!!

News: Hostage in Philippines

At least seven killed in hostage crisis in the Philippines recently. The hostage taking was on a tourist bus (HONG THAI TOURIST) held in Quirino Grandstand Manila Philippines. The hostage taking started around 10 am(local time) and ended around 9 pm.

Philippine security forces stormed a bus full of Hong Kong tourists on Monday to end a dramatic hostage crisis that unfolded live on global television, leaving at least seven people and the gunman dead.Hong Kong eventually issued its top-level black travel alert for the Philippines on Monday after Hong Kong tourists were killed in Manila in a bus hijack by an armed ex-policeman.The Hong Kong government said it was “very disappointed” about the outcome of a dramatic hostage siege.The day-long ordeal began when a disgruntled ex-policeman armed with an M-16 assault rifle hijacked the bus in Manila’s tourist district in a desperate bid to get his job back.Negotiations broke down after nightfall when the gunman, a highly decorated former senior police inspector identified as Rolando Mendoza, began shooting the passengers, and commandos stormed the bus.Police said Mendoza was shot dead by a sniper after he used his captives as “human shields” in the final moments of the 12-hour standoff. In the end, one of the snipers managed to shoot the hostage taker in the head.

Now the Security Bureau of Hong Kong advised its citizens to avoid all travel to the Philippines an hour after the hostage crisis ended Monday.In an outbound travel alert, the Security Bureau, changed its “amber alert warning" - meaning there were signs of threat - for the Philippines to a “black alert warning" indicating severe threats on the country’s security.

The Hong Kong warning stated that a “serious kidnap incident happened in the Philippines. [R]esidents should avoid all travel to the country; those who are already there should attend to their personal safety and exercise caution."

The travel warning came after the 10-hour hostage crisis ended with at least 4 Chinese nationals killed. Hostage-taker Rolando Mendoza, a former police office, was shot in the head by a SWAT sniper.

Super Typhoon Ondoy make NCR Philippines Float!

Recently, There is a typhoon named Ondoy hit the Philippine responsibility, the people on National Capital region was shock on this incident! The streets was covered with water, poor or rich get out from there home and went to evacuation areas, many families was stranded in there own home, no water, no food and no electricy, they only relie on other people specially the rescuer to help them, but rescuer are not sufficient to cover all the town and barangays. Ondoy done a massive distruction on the Philippines,many people died and many families lost their home. According to a news tabloid
" MANILA, Philippines — (UPDATE) At least 50 people were reported dead as tropical storm “Ondoy” (international code name: Ketsana) lashed the Philippines, bringing massive flooding, television and radio reports said early Sunday.

At least 40 were killed in Rizal province, east of Manila, as entire towns were inundated, Rizal Governor Casimiro Ynares was quoted as saying by GMA television.

Radio stations had earlier reported 10 dead in Manila and its surrounding areas. This included a father and child killed by a collapsing wall weakened by the flood as well as others swept away by rising waters.

Ynares said there were many more missing in flooded towns in his province but he did not give details.

The government declared Manila and 25 other provinces to be in a "state of calamity," Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said, as heavy rains brought by the storm caused the worst flooding in the capital in some 20 years.

Amid a rash of cellphone calls for help by people stranded on the roofs of their houses, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appealed to the public to stay calm and follow the instructions of local officials and civil defense workers.

Over 1,800 people were forced to flee their homes and take refuge in evacuation centers due to rising waters, the Office of Civil Defense said.

Flooding was reported in many districts with waters in some areas reaching as high as the rooftops of one-storey buildings, it added.

Power was cut in many areas of Manila, partly due to flooding but also as a protective measure to prevent fallen lines electrocuting people trying to escape the waters.

Defense Secretary Teodoro, who is also in charge of civil defense operations, said all the efforts of the police and the military were being concentrated on rescuing people trapped on rooftops.

But he said the flooding in the streets and the large numbers of stalled vehicles were giving rescue units "a hard time" in reaching those affected.

In a radio broadcast, he advised that "if you are on the roof, don't try to leave. Just remain there on the roof and we will do everything to rescue you."

He remarked that even he had to swim through chest-deep waters to reach his office.

The storm, bearing winds of 85 kilometers (53 miles) per hour with gusts of 100 kph, hit the main island of Luzon near the town of Infanta at about 0200 GMT Saturday, moving west at 19 kph, the weather station said.

Government weather forecaster Gener Quitlong said the equivalent of one month's worth of rain fell on Manila in less than a day.

"We knew there would be rain but not like this," Quitlong told reporters.

One of the three airport terminals in Manila was forced to cancel and divert flights after the flooding hampered its electrical system.

Local officials interviewed on radio said they were moving to evacuate more of their residents.

At least four hospitals in the capital had to move their patients to higher floors after water began seeping into lower levels.

The highways leading to metropolitan Manila were rendered impassable due to the huge number of vehicles stalled in the floodwaters.

Local officials made radio appeals asking rescue agencies to send rubber boats to rescue stranded people, some of whom had been on their rooftops all day and were panicking because of rising waters.

In a suburb of Manila, residents in a flooded area were seen rescuing children from rooftops by placing them in inflated inner tubes before dragging them to higher ground.

The second level of a three-step storm alert was raised over the eastern provinces of Luzon while the first level alert was hoisted over metropolitan Manila and surrounding areas, the government said.

The storm is expected to move west, across the main island of Luzon, before leaving the country early Sunday. The government weather station said it is weakening and that rains are likely to ease.

An average of 20 typhoons and storms hit the Philippines every year."

Now,ondoy is out of the Philippines, but the agony does not over yet, here comes another Typhoon named Pepeng, storm signal are raise now by PAG-ASA, it is now under the Philippines responsibility, let's pray that no one will get hurt in this another massive typhoon!

For you donations in any kind pls go to this ABS-CBN Foundation or GMA FOUNDATION, Let us help the victims of typhoon Ondoy.

Note: This is not a spam or taking advantage of the incident, I am just a concern citizen helping the victims of ondoy.

Here are some photos of what the typhoon: