Filipinos have improved in disaster preparedness especially in the use of hazard assessment tools but more needs to be done ...

NICHE real estate developer Havitas Properties Inc. said it will launch two leisure projects in Batangas and La Union costing some P2.1 billion, as it lays the groundwork for its entry into the ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore.- Hundreds of people pack into a town hall hosted by the Josephine County Board of Commissioners to discuss ODF’s new Wildfire hazard map. Earlier this month, some county residents ...

One lesson from the damage caused by the destructive typhoon that hit Japan in October last year is the need to improve hazard maps that visualize projected data for natural hazards. Hazard maps ...

Creating the disaster map would not have to start from scratch, given that the MGB already has a geohazard map in place that pinpoints vulnerable areas in the country, Yamsuan said. He said ...

The Facebook page of the Batangas office of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) went viral for its unconventional earthquake-related posts. DOST is the parent agency of the Philippine ...

MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 5.5 earthquake jolted Batangas and Metro Manila last night, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). State seismologists ...

An initial report from the institute indicated that a magnitude 5.4 earthquake had struck the waters off Batangas, but this has since been corrected. According to Phivolcs, the epicenter of the ...

MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck off the coast of Calatagan, Batangas, at 6:43 p.m. on Monday, January 20, Phivolcs reported. In its initial bulletin, Phivolcs said the ...

PHIVOLCS science research specialist Dhenz Rodriguez told GMA News Online that this is a development from the initially reported magnitude 5.4 earthquake that hit the waters off Calatagan, Batangas.

Phivolcs initially reported the quake's origin near Calatagan, Batangas, and measured it at magnitude 5.4, but later revised it to 5.5. In the updated bulletin, the earthquake’s epicenter was located ...