No Philippine budget cover from 2023 to 2025 The World Bank has once again flagged delays in a project it is funding to better equip Metro Manila against earthquakes, which may prove more costly when the Philippines ' capital region is shaken by the anticipated "Big One." "Despite significant...
President Marcos has approved cost and implementation adjustments to the Metro Manila Priority Bridges Seismic Improvement Project (MMPBSIP) that aims to strengthen bridges in the National Capital Region (NCR) in preparation for strong earthquakes. NEDA BOARD MEETING — President Ferdinand...
How prepared are we in the event “The Big One”—a magnitude-7.2 earthquake triggered by the movement of the West Valley Fault—strikes in Metro Manila? The question comes to mind in the wake of the devastation caused by the magnitude-7.8 earthquake that hit Turkiye and Syria. A study...
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...
