The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is eyeing the establishment of a training center for disaster preparedness in a bid to train as many responders on properly dealing with adverse situations emanating from natural calamities especially in the National Capital Region. MMDA...
If an earthquake like the one that hit Turkiye and Syria suffered last week should strike the Philippines, is the government prepared to respond? This is the question that House Speaker Martin Romualdez intends to answer as he plans to summon all disaster agencies and first responder units to find...
FINDING ANSWERS Former Senator Atty. Joey D. Lina The massive 7.8 magnitude quake in southern Türkiye and northern Syria that has claimed more than 34,000 lives so far, with the numbers still climbing, is the kind of apocalyptic nightmare geoscientists have been worrying about. A glimpse of the...
The government should go beyond the holding of nationwide earthquake drills as it prepares for the eventuality of a massive earthquake or the “Big One” that can hit the Philippines at any given time, Senator Maria Lourdes Nancy Binay said on Friday, February 10. Binay issued the reminder as she...
We have too much on our plate—climate change, COVID, Delta, Omicron… —but have we forgotten about the ‘Big One’? GOODBYE EVERYONE Could we be nearing the end of the world? Word on the street: “All of Taguig will collapse into the ground.” So will practically all of Metro Manila,...
The Big One is defined as a “strong and damaging” earthquake scenario. (File Photo / Phivolcs) As explained by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), this is also often equated to the worst-case earthquake that may happen in the Greater Metro Manila Area. However,...
