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 sea breeze cooled my face. This was my fleeting memory of Tacloban, a city I had passed through just a few months ago, on the
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 she could see and smell, a place that would bring her closer to her six children. Marie Jean traveled almost four hours by fast craft
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.”
By KARLOS MANLUPIG
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley—A loud cracking sound followed by waves upon waves of clay, timber and rocks roused sleeping residents in a poor small-scale mining community in Sitios Diat 1 and 2 in Barangay Napnapan, Pantukan, Compostela Valley before dawn of Jan. 5.
Shortly after, more than 50 houses would be buried in rubble, leaving residents who survived the nature’s onslaught in shock.
