FACT CHECK: MISLEADING earthquake warnings used as clickbait for online shopping site
An old warning about a strong earthquake was used to trick people into clicking affiliate links from an e-commerce site.
Tag Archives: West Valley Fault
Preparation is best way to cope with earthquakes
The earthquake that shook Batangas and the other provinces in Central Luzon Tuesday once again reminded the public of the possible movement of the West Valley Fault that could have catastrophic result.
The fault beneath our schools: West Valley Fault forces demolition of school buildings, displaces hundreds of students in Muntinlupa
By ALLAN YVES BRIONES, BRYAN EZRA GONZALES and MA. LUISA PINEDA A FEW weeks before classes opened, the noise of hammers and saws resonated throughout the two-story Values Education Building of the Pedro E. Diaz High School (PEDHS) in Muntinlupa. Outside the building lay strewn desktops, plywood and filers teeming with documents of all sorts. But
The Red Cross 72-hour lifeline kit
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS GOVERNMENT agencies and private companies are reactivating their emergency drills with the release by Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of its latest findings about the West Valley Fault. Phivolcs Director Renato U. Solidum, Jr. warned that based on the movement pattern (every 400 or so years) of the West
Yolanda lessons useful for earthquake preparation
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE pain of a tragedy is assuaged by the lessons learned from it. That is the case with the disaster that was how the Aquino government handled the damage wrought by super typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) in November 2013. It was a reference point in several presentations in last Wednesday’s
