Leave landslide-prone villages, Aetas told

Fri, 24 May 2019 04:37:00 +0200inquirer (en)

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO — Some 260 Aeta families have been advised to permanently move out of harm’s way as the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) tagged their villages as prone to landslides after the 6.1-magnitude earthquake on April 22. Noel Lacadin, chief geologist of MGB in Central Luzon,....

Death toll rises in Philippines earthquake that damaged 30 structures

Tue, 21 May 2019 22:01:00 +0200manilametro (en)

At least 16 people have died after the Philippine s was rattled by two major earthquakes, authorities said on Tuesday. A further 81 people were injured and 14 remain missing, a statement from the Office of Civil Defense read. The first tremor, a magnitude 6.1 quake, hit the Southeast Asian archipelago's Luzon island on Monday.

How a mangrove forest in Calapan City is giving back to its community

Tue, 21 May 2019 08:49:00 +0200philstar (en)

CALAPAN CITY, Philippine s In 2013, locals of Brgy. Silonay in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro saw how Super Typhoon Yolanda devasted Tacloban City in Leyte. Unlike Tacloban, their community was spared from one of from the strongest typhoons that ever made landfall in the Philippines.

Stay or go? As weather gets wilder, states urged to prepare for displacement

Mon, 20 May 2019 18:32:00 +0200abs-cbnnews (en)

GENEVA - Warned that Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) would slam into the coastal part of the Philippine town of Dulag in November 2013, Leah C. Caminong's family rented a room 300 meters back from the shoreline where they planned to ride out the storm. Little did Caminong know the roof of that building....

World: Stay or go? As weather gets wilder, states urged to prepare for displacement

Mon, 20 May 2019 16:48:00 +0200reliefWeb (en)

With disasters uprooting 24 million people a year, pressure grows on governments to reduce the risk, and do more to protect the displaced. (Fixes number in para 18 after IDMC correction to 2.8 million from 3.8 million) By Megan Rowling. GENEVA, May 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Warned that....

4.2-magnitude quake strikes Masbate

Mon, 20 May 2019 04:46:00 +0200inquirer (en)

MANILA, Philippine s — A magnitude 4.2 earthquake struck Masbate on Monday morning, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. In its initial bulletin, Phivolcs reported the temblor hit eight kilometers (km) southeast of Pio V. Corpus, Masbate at 6:45 a.m. The quake of tectonic origin had a depth of one km.

Four Bohol churches near reconstruction

Mon, 20 May 2019 04:46:00 +0200inquirer (en)

Loboc Church —PHOTO COURTESY OF BISHOP ABET UY. Four churches damaged or ruined by the 2013 earthquake in Bohol are nearing complete reconstruction. The churches of Loboc, Cortes, Maribojoc and Loon are now 60 to 65 percent complete, said Fr. Milan Ted Torralba of the Tagbilaran diocese.