4821000 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://tribune.net.ph/index.php/2019/11/04/quake-damage-blamed-on-subpar-materials/Government engineers in Cotabato tasked to approve building permits may face criminal liability arising from the collapse of structures in the area due to three consecutive earthquakes. This as an official of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Sunday night said the....Sun, 03 Nov 2019 19:50:00 +0100tribuneonline-9fc53b08ce767a66500fbc3160de87ab20191103195000https://tribune.net.ph/index.php/2019/11/04/he-said-she-said-127/What has not come, yet? By Aldrin Cardona. As if the successive earthquakes which have hit Cotabato and many other areas in Mindanao are not enough yet for its people, there is still a big possibility of an even stronger tremor to hit the island soon. When it would come is the question, though.Sun, 03 Nov 2019 19:50:00 +0100tribuneonline-ea22b2d9611442a9f47e0f4b29e895e120191103195000https://www.philstar.com/nation/2019/11/04/1965697/quezon-city-buildings-inspection-belmonteMANILA, Philippines Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte has ordered the inspection of buildings in the city to ensure public safety in case of a strong earthquake. Following the swarm of strong earthquakes in Mindanao, the latest of which was a magnitude 6.Sun, 03 Nov 2019 18:14:00 +0100philstar-2768a38b9711d1719a05ad47cc7b4b4920191103181400https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2019/11/04/1965716/reconstruction-evolution-or-revolution“A cord of three strands is not quickly broken” Ecclesiastes 4:12. After viewing videos of the damage done by recent earthquakes in Mindanao particularly Davao province, I found myself looking at similarly constructed buildings in Metro Manila and wondered if these buildings will withstand a....Sun, 03 Nov 2019 18:14:00 +0100philstar-5e19faa2c16c0b613a851efb39fd8beb20191103181400