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Tag: disaster

  • Stilt houses along the shoreline in Ubay, Bohol
    Categories Commentary

    Waiting for another disaster in Ubay?

    By Tita C. Valderama  |  Dec 05, 2022 1:43 PM

    It needs strong political will from both the local and national leadership to first protect its people from natural and man-made disasters. The people should be spared from a bigger disaster, that is, politics.

    Bohol, disaster, Tagbilaran City, typhoon, Typhoon Odette, Ubay

  • 1- Memorial_with angel statue.jpg
    Categories Earth Files News

    Rising but remembering – Ormoc years after the deadly flood

    By Cooper Resabal  |  Nov 18, 2020 2:30 PM

    Ormoc was once devastated by a powerful typhoon. The painful experience taught the city valuable lessons that can be used in rebuilding communities ravaged by Typhoon Ulysses.

    1991 Ormoc floods, disaster, Earth Files, flash floods, floods

  • Biliran_Urduja02.jpg
    Categories Earth Files Editor's Pick News

    PHOTOS: Students, teachers help in massive cleanup of classrooms in storm-hit Biliran

    By DANIEL ABUNALES  |  Jan 05, 2018 5:43 AM

    The damage, however, was too extensive in some areas.

    Biliran, disaster, Urduja

  • Screen Shot 2017-12-28 at 5.30.19 PM copy.jpg
    Categories Earth Files News

    VIDEO: Biliran after Urduja

    By Jeffrey Jaculbe  |  Dec 28, 2017 4:57 PM

    Retrieval operations in some areas where landslides occurred are still ongoing as 14 people remain missing.

    disaster, Disaster Preparedness, disaster risk reduction

  • tumana bridhe.jpg
    Categories Earth Files News PWD Files

    Evacuation centers, relief goods not PWD-inclusive

    By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL and YVETTE MORALES  |  Sep 28, 2017 12:32 PM

    Some of the PWDs would rather stay with relatives or generous neighbors due to inaccessible shelters

    disaster, Disaster Preparedness, disaster risk reduction, PWD, PWDs

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    On their own: PWD students care for themselves and others at earthquake drill

    Jul 03, 2016 11:46 AM

    By ALLAN YVES BRIONES AND BRYAN EZRA GONZALES THOUSANDS of persons with disabilities (PWDs) participated in the recent annual earthquake simulation exercise, some of them showing they could take part […]

    disaster, pwd students, shake drill

  • Categories Top Stories

    Storm drill to save Malabon residents

    Jun 09, 2014 9:56 PM

    [metaslider id=29720]     By JANE DASAL AS soon as the siren rang, they ran. Armed with “bakwit”or evacuee bags containing food, water and emergency supplies, residents of Barangay Potrero […]

    disaster, Malabon, Preparedness, typhoon

  • Categories Banner

    The ghost of a remembered place

    Nov 19, 2013 7:18 PM

    Text and photos by LUIS LIWANAG TACLOBAN City — A palette of magenta and orange filled the eastern skies at daybreak, the silhouette of windswept trees whispered poetry, and a […]

    disaster, Haiyan, Leyte, Yolanda

  • Categories Banner Video

    A city in ruins

    Nov 14, 2013 6:44 AM

    Text and photos by LUIS LIWANAG ORMOC City—The city of Ormoc in Leyte was just a speck in the horizon but to 38-year-old Marie Jean Decio, it was a place […]

    disaster, Haiyan, Leyte, Ormoc, Tacloban, typhoon, Yolanda

  • Categories Top Stories

    Cause of powerful Negros quake? Phivolcs point to hidden fault—for now

    Feb 08, 2012 12:36 AM

    By JOSEPH HOLANDES UBALDE

    WHILE seismologists have yet to give the official cause of the magnitude 6.9 quake that ripped through Negros province and nearby Visayas islands on Monday, some point to a likely suspect: a “blind fault.”

    disaster, earthquake

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