Phivolcs to launch New Monitoring Center for Earthquake and Tsunami tomorrow

[ASEAN NOW News]

MANILA – The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (DOST-Phivolcs) will inaugurate its Mindanao Cluster Monitoring Center for Earthquake and Tsunami (PMCMCET) on Friday (Sept. 24) via Zoom.

 

 

The ceremony will be facilitated through the InfoSentro sa Phivolcs online press conference.

 

The establishment of the cluster center in the Davao Seismic Station is one of the Institute’s strategies to ensure service continuity of its national earthquake and tsunami monitoring operations in cases of major disruptions in key operations of the Phivolcs Data Receiving Center (DRC) in Quezon City.

 

 

It is located within the Southern Mindanao Campus of the Philippine Science High School in Mintal, Davao City.

The Philippines is an earthquake-prone country, registering quakes every day, though most are not felt. Phivolcs records an average of 20 earthquakes a day and 100 to 150 earthquakes are felt per year.

 

Tsunamis in the Philippines are rare but could be devastating.

 

In the past, 38 people drowned because of a tsunami caused by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Mindoro on November 15, 1994. Tsunami waves generated by earthquakes from other countries may affect the country as well.

 

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As a backup site for the Phivolcs DRC, it can issue and disseminating earthquake and tsunami information to the public.

 

The cluster center also manages the earthquake and tsunami monitoring stations in Mindanao, consisting of nine staff-controlled seismic stations, 18 satellite-telemetered seismic stations, and 12 sea-level detection stations and its tsunami alerting stations.

 

Destruction caused by an earthquake (File Photo) 

 

PMCMCET also provides ease among technical personnel of the Mindanao stations and Phivolcs main office in implementing programmed activities and coordinating an integrated response during emergencies in Mindanao.

 

The virtual activity will include messages from DOST Secretary Fortunato de la Peña and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio.

 

DOST Undersecretary and Phivolcs Officer-in-Charge Dr. Renato U. Solidum Jr., and Phivolcs Deputy Director Teresito C. Bacolcol will grace the event. (PR) 

 

 

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