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Tag: earthquake

  • VFFC on building code.jpg
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Ang mga istraktura earthquake-resilient, ipinaliwanag

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 18, 2019 10:55 PM

    Inutos ng pamahalaan ang mahigpit na pagpapatupad ng National Building Code (NBC) bunga ng serye ng mga malakas na lindol na nagdulot ng napakalaking mga pinsala sa mga istruktura sa Mindanao noong Oktubre.

    building structure, earthquake

  • Courtesy of Association of Structural Engineers of the Philippines (ASEP) Vice President Ariel Santos.
    Categories FACT CHECK Fact Sheet NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Earthquake-resilient structures, explained

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 18, 2019 4:24 PM

    The series of strong earthquakes that caused massive structural damages in Mindanao in October has prompted the government to order the strict enforcement of the National Building Code (NBC).

    building structure, earthquake

  • 052219 FAKE Robredo on quakes.png
    Categories FACT CHECK

    ​VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Robredo DID NOT say ‘earthquakes happen because of the Earth’

    By VERA FILES  |  May 31, 2019 3:11 PM

    This story is fake. Don’t believe it.

    earthquake, Leni Robredo

  • 01242019_Yanig.jpg
    Categories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page

    YANIG: When earthquakes strike and you’re on the road

    By Julius Segovia, Shenna Lyn Sobreviñas, Fatima Dinfotan  |  Nov 24, 2018 10:57 AM

    Here are reminders from PHIVOLCS.

    earthquake, PHIVOLCS, Renato Solidum

  • Earthquakes.jpg
    Categories The Chit Estella Road Safety Page

    MALAYA ROAD SAFETY SERIES: Understanding driving during, after earthquakes

    By RAYMOND GREGORY TRIBDINO  |  Apr 19, 2017 11:11 AM

    What to do if you’re on the road when an earthquake strikes

    #SafeRoadsPH, earthquake, road safety

  • gina-lopez.png
    Categories FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Can open-pit mines trigger earthquakes?

    By Vera Files  |  Feb 18, 2017 6:04 AM

    ​Environment Secretary Gina Lopez says open-pit mining can cause earthquakes.

    DENR, earthquake, Gina Lopez, mining

  • Two hotel employees are assigned to bring CPAP's Denny Ilagan to "safety"
    Categories Banner

    Hotel gets impromptu lessons on how to—and not to—evacuate PWDs during Shake Drill

    Jul 30, 2015 7:42 PM

    Text and photos by YVONNE T. CHUA AT 10:30 a.m., the hotel emergency alarm went off, signaling the start of Thursday’s “Shake Drill” designed to prepare Metro Manilans for a 7.2 magnitude earthquake or the “Big One.” Many of the 30 or so guests meeting at the hotel’s fifth-floor function room quickly stood up and […]

    Disaster Preparedness, earthquake, PWD, shake drill

  • Baclaran Church. Photo by YVETTE MORALES
    Categories News

    Church prepares for earthquake, tsunami

    Jun 27, 2015 12:14 AM

    By YVETTE B. MORALES With the threat of tsunami from the Manila Trench and the anticipated 7.2 magnitude earthquake of the West Valley Fault, the Redemptorists of Baclaran have decided to be more proactive instead of reactive in disaster management. As a first step, the National Shrine of the Mother of Perpetual Help conducted Friday […]

    Church, earthquake

  • Categories Arts & Culture Top Stories

    Fiesta celebration re-examined in quake-hit village

    Oct 25, 2013 6:07 PM

    By COOPER RESABAL JR. TORIL, Maribojoc – On the eve of their fiesta, residents of this scenic barangay buried on Thursday  a mother and a teenage girl who were casualties in a landslide triggered by the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that hit the island province of Bohol early morning on October 15. Ten days after the tremor that […]

    Bohol, Catholic, earthquake, Feast, Maribojoc, Toril

  • Categories News Vote 2013

    Candidates barred from relief efforts in Bohol

    Oct 23, 2013 7:43 PM

    (UPDATED) NO candidates in the upcoming barangay elections will be allowed to take part in relief operations in earthquake-ravaged Bohol, Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr warned on Wednesday. “The Commission on Elections is making sure that the distribution of relief will not be used for political purposes,” he said in a press briefing, adding that the […]

    Barangay, Bohol, comelec, earthquake, elections, Red Cross

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