By Marie Tonette Marticio and Restituto Cayubit TACLOBAN CITY – Fears of a tsunami following the magnitude 6.5 earthquake Tuesday tied up traffic in the city as residents tried to leave for higher ground. Mobile police teams had to go around the city to assure the people that no tsunami alert had been raised. The quake caused minimal damage to buildings and other structures, but just the same, Mayor Cristina Romualdez issued an executive order suspending all classes Wednesday. The EO was issued "as a precautionary measure against aftershocks...and to make way for structural assessment of structures and buildings," Romualdez said. Over 1,000 students and employees at Asian Development Foundation College (ADFC) were sent home after the earthquake. There were cracks and minimal damage to the school’s building, Edward Chua, ADFC president, said the city engineering office gave the all clear after an inspection. The school suspended classes for two days to clear the building of debris. "They advised us to get an opinion from a structural engineer, which we will do, but we just want to clarify that only the decorative portion and not the structure itself has cracks," Chua said. The Tacloban police chief, Col. Michael David, said there were no major incidents and casualties. "Everyone wanted to go home that's why heavy traffic has been reported. It's just a normal reaction from the people after what happened during Supertyphoon Yolanda," David said. Malls and other business establishments closed to clean up broken glass and debris. Eastern Visayas police spokesman Bella Rentuaya, said cracks were reported in two bridges in Casuroy and Tagbabangnan in Eastern Samar but the bridges were passable. Fifteen people were reported injured throughout the region, but there were no fatalities. A Tacloban-bound bus crashed into two houses in Pinabacdao, Samar, after the driver lost control of the wheel after the earthquake struck. In Borongan City, Eastern Samar, classes in all schools were suspended. Government offices were closed in Calbayog City, Samar. The Eastern Samar District Engineering Office (DEO) advised motorists to drive with caution on damaged road sections. In an e-mail report to Manila Bulletin, Manolo A. Rojas, DEO head, said five road sections and two bridges had only one lane open. A rockslide covered one lane of the road in the town of Taft In Barangay San Pablo, also in Taft, Part of the road pavement was damaged. In Barangay Maglipay, Sulat, and Barangay Casoroy, San Julian, the road had only one lane open. The damaged bridges are in Barangay Casoroy and Barangay Pagbabangnan both of San Julian.