Philippine's Mass Wasting Hazards
Aaron Flores
Mass Waste
Mass wasting, also known as slope movement or mass movement, is the geomorphic process by which soil, sand, regolith, and rock move downslope typically as a mass, largely under the force of gravity, but frequently affected by water and water content as in submarine environments and mudflows. In the Philippines, there are many volcanoes and mountains. This meaning, there can be a lot of opportunities for avalanches. The Philippines is susceptible to landslides. Landslides include a wide range of movements in the ground such as a deep failure of slopes. These mass wasting hazards are likely in the Philippines because of the extreme weather that the Philippines has.
To prevent such hazards, the Philippines Local Government Unit (LGU) led by Mayor Rico C. Rentuza, has, since the 2006 landslide tragedy, made great strides to become an exemplary model LGU for disaster risk reduction and management. Included in this effort, the LGU today conducted a blessing and turn-over of Day Care / Evacuation Centers and turnover ceremony of a Landslide Early Warning System (LEWS), established and provided with support from the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The landslide early warning system in Saint Bernard is among the first of its kind to be established in the Philippines.
Links: https://www.preventionweb.net/news/view/28029
Mass Waste
Mass wasting, also known as slope movement or mass movement, is the geomorphic process by which soil, sand, regolith, and rock move downslope typically as a mass, largely under the force of gravity, but frequently affected by water and water content as in submarine environments and mudflows. In the Philippines, there are many volcanoes and mountains. This meaning, there can be a lot of opportunities for avalanches. The Philippines is susceptible to landslides. Landslides include a wide range of movements in the ground such as a deep failure of slopes. These mass wasting hazards are likely in the Philippines because of the extreme weather that the Philippines has.
To prevent such hazards, the Philippines Local Government Unit (LGU) led by Mayor Rico C. Rentuza, has, since the 2006 landslide tragedy, made great strides to become an exemplary model LGU for disaster risk reduction and management. Included in this effort, the LGU today conducted a blessing and turn-over of Day Care / Evacuation Centers and turnover ceremony of a Landslide Early Warning System (LEWS), established and provided with support from the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). The landslide early warning system in Saint Bernard is among the first of its kind to be established in the Philippines.
Links: https://www.preventionweb.net/news/view/28029
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