Local officials will attend a summit on effective disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) hosted by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council through the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) at the Philippine International Convention Center on Wednesday.
Classes in some elementary schools here were cut short on Monday afternoon after a 4.5-magnitude earthquake shook the city at 3:16 p.m.
The familiar face representing the government’s response to disasters has resigned. He was known to lighten the mood in a stormy weather with his funny asides.
A storm surge as high as six meters hit the shorelines of Catanduanes on Tuesday, preventing passenger vessels from docking in the Virac port, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) in Bicol said.
A Cebu-bound passenger ship ran aground in the waters off Merida, Leyte Tuesday night, the Office of Civil Defense said.
Incessant heavy rains spawned by the southwest monsoon has evacuated over 5,000 persons in parts of Metro Manila as of posting time, the Office of Civil Defense in National Capital Region said Monday.
A total of 14 villages in at least three towns in Maguindanao were partly submerged in floodwaters brought about by typhoon Gener’s intermittent rains that swelled rivers surrounding the Liguasan Marsh, the Office of Civil Defense in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao said Sunday.
schools yesterday as water levels in central Luzon’s rivers rose and coastal villages were swamped by high tide, local officials said.
Officials of Guihulngan City yesterday passed a resolution declaring the landslide area in Sitio (sub-village) Moog in Barangay (village) Planas as a memorial site for residents buried there.
The Office of Civil Defense for Eastern Visayas urged all local government units to brace for possible hazards that a low pressure area spotted in Mindanao might bring to the region.
The death toll from flash floods that swept away entire villages in the southern Philippines has climbed to nearly 1,500 as authorities widen their search for bodies.
About 10,000 people have fled their homes amid fighting between Moro rebels and government forces in the southern Philippines, a civil defense official said Tuesday.
At least 2,481 families or 8,375 people were affected by the floods in Western Visayas when Tropical Depression “Ramon” hit Western and Eastern Visayas on Wednesday, according to the Office of Civil Defense.
