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The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Central Office team has submitted to the Naga City government the delineation of the critical zones surrounding the ground zero of the landslide in Sitio Sindulan, Barangay Tinaan. The local government…
With the landslide incident in Naga City, there will be changes in the requirements for mining and quarry operations. Engr. Armando Malicse, chief of the Mine and Safety Environment and Social Development of the Mines and Geosciences…
Church lauded for donation; landslide-affected families open to moving to relocation site The four-hectare property donated by the church to be used as a relocation site for the families displaced by the landslides in Lower Becerril in…
There are at least 770 sinkholes in “urban” Cebu City. This is according to a study conducted by the Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-7). The MGB yesterday met…
Investigators not ruling out arson after loss of documents It was something they didn’t expect to happen. Various documents of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR-7) went up in smoke in an…
Landslide hit areas in Sitios Kan-irag and Tawagan II in Barangay Sirao will become a no-build zone. This developed after Cebu City and Sirao barangay officials said yesterday that they would enforce the recommendation of the Mines…
GLOBE Telecom has teamed up with the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) in developing data base for 56 provinces. The information are integrated with the Phivolcs-developed Rapid Earthquake Damage Assessment System (Redas) software, a hazard…
The Cebu City Council authorized Mayor Michael Rama to negotiate and purchase a lot for the Sapangdaku Elementary School. The school is located along a river which has been identified as a flood-prone area by the Mines…
A smartphone application that will identify disaster-prone areas in Central Visayas is being developed by the regional Mines and Geosciences Bureau-7 (MGB-7). Al Emil Birador, MGB-7 chief geologist, said they already finished conducting geohazard mapping to identify…
The Cebu Provincial Board (PB) yesterday approved a resolution banning the use of backhoes in river quarrying. The measure came days after the Toledo City Council issued a resolution to halt quarrying in the Sapangdaku River in…
Two new sinkholes, one of which was described as having caused “half a mountain to collapse”, were discovered in the towns of Alcantara and Badian in southern Cebu last week. Arturo Palencia, Alcantara Municipal Engineer, said his…
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