by Angie Quadra-Balibay | Nov 16, 2020 | Good Pinoys
University of the Philippines professor Alfredo Mahar Lagmay, executive director of the UP Resilience Institute and the Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards (UP-NOAH), has been named a Start Network Change Maker for advocating science-based disaster...
by The Good News Pilipinas Team | Nov 13, 2020 | Good Balita
The Philippines’ tsunami readiness under the new normal conditions is being pushed by the Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (DOST-PHIVOLCS) campaign. The awareness campaign dubbed “Tsunami...
by The Good News Pilipinas Team | Oct 17, 2020 | Good Balita
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake was recorded by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS-DOST) to have struck early Saturday morning in Occidental Mindoro and was felt in varying intensities in the nearby provinces of Batangas and Cavite, parts of...
by Angie Quadra-Balibay | Jul 16, 2020 | Good Tech
The Philippines’ earthquake-prone areas and natural hazards have been mapped in the new Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (DOST-PHIVOLCS) web-based tool, GeoMapperPH, launched Thursday. GeoMapperPH was...
by Eldan Sambatyon | Feb 18, 2020 | Good Tech
The Philippines’ new partnership with the European Union’s (EU) Copernicus Programme will allow the country to access real-time data on disaster-stricken areas and improve the country’s monitoring and mitigation capacities. The Copernicus Programme is the...