ILOCOS SUR -- Around 20 tourist attractions and establishments in Bantay town and Vigan City here were found to have sustained minor to major damages during the magnitude 7 earthquake on Wednesday, July 27. Ancestral house in Vigan City sustained damages from the earthquake. (Contributed photo by...
Vigan City, Ilocos Sur Mayor Jose “Bonito” Singson Jr. has ordered private establishments to check and ensure the structural integrity of their buildings following the magnitude-7 earthquake Wednesday, July 27. Singson, in Executive Order No. 7, Series of 2022, issued Wednesday, said there is a...
TUPAD workers clean the street in front of the Vigan Cathedral in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur Thursday, July 28. (DOLE photo) SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – Workers under the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Worker (TUPAD) program were deployed for earthquake clearing and cleanup...
ONE of the old houses damaged by the earthquake in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur. (Vigan City Cultural Affairs and Tourism Office) CEBU CITY – Lapu-Lapu City and Cebu City will send aid to the quake-hit Ilocos region. Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said they will check their calamity fund and will conduct...
LA UNION – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region 1 reported that some areas in Ilocos Sur are either one lane passable or impassable because of big boulders that cascaded following the devastating earthquake that struck the northern Philippines on Wednesday, July 27....
THE Vigan City Cathedral sustained damage from the earthquake. (Vigan City Cultural Affairs and Tourism Office) The Heritage District in Vigan City, home to many old houses popular with tourists, is closed until further notice. The city government announced the closure of the tourist spot, where...
VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur – Several old houses, churches, and vehicles here were damaged or destroyed in the magnitude-7 earthquake Wednesday, July 27. THE Quema ancestral house in Vigan City sustains damage from the earthquake. (Contributed photo by Police Col. Manuel Bringas) “May mga old houses...
LOCAL government employees in Santo Tomas, Pangasinan take cover as a magnitude-7.1 earthquake hits the Ilocos region Wednesday, July 27. LGU employees have been trained what to do in case of an earthquake. (LGU photo via Liezle Inigo) DAGUPAN CITY – People here and the province of Pangasinan...
A 7.3-magnitude earthquake roused people from sleep in different parts of Luzon and damaged various infrastructures on Wednesday morning, July 27. The Vigan Cathedral in Ilocos Sur is damaged by the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that hit Abra on July 27, 2022. (Screenshot from Facebook video of Ceasar...
TAGUDIN, Ilocos Sur – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced Tuesday, July 26, the completion of a P25-million 274.2-meter concrete revetment flood control structure in Barangay Libtong here. This project will benefit the residents as they will be less susceptible to floods....
BAGUIO CITY – Ilocos Sur governor Jerry Singson has called on local government units, individuals, even barangays and residents to enter entrepreneurship in tourism to help the province’s economic recovery program. Ilocos Sur Gov. Jerry Singson, together with provincial board members, made a...
NARVACAN, Ilocos Sur – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)-Ilocos Sur Second District Engineering Office has completed two asphalt overlay projects on Sulvec Port Road here. TRAVEL will now be more convenient as the Department of Public Works and Highways has completed two asphalt...
