trivias week 1-3 Flashcards
- landslide
- Softened limestone and soil
- September 20, 2018
- 29 people dead
- Typhoon Ompong
2018 Naga, Cebu landslide
- landslides
- Typhoon Winnie
- Real, Infanta and General Nakar, Quezon
- 1,068 dead, 1,061 injured, and 500 missing.
December 2004 Quezon Province Landslide
- December 4, 2012
- flow of mud, boulders and gravels
- brgy Andap
- typhoon Pablo
- 128 died and 450 missing
2012 New Bataan (Compostela Valley) debris flow
- August 3, 1999
- typhoon Ising (Olga)
- Cherry Hills Subdivision in Antipolo City, ho
- 66 dead
1999 Cherry Hills Landslide
- typhoon Durian
- 720 people dead
- Legazpi City
- flooding while mudslides from the Mayon Volcano buried many villages, causing another
- 800 to 1,000 casualties.
November 25, 2006,
- Six people have reportedly fallen into a 12 feet deep sinkhole
- Purok Jalandoni, Barangay Oringao in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental
- July 2014
Sinkhole in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental (July 2014)
- Zambales collapsed
- September 11, 2002
- flooding low-lying villages with mine wastes and other chemicals
- 250 families in Barangays Buhawen, Sta. Fe and Poblacion evacuated
spillway of the Dizon Copper Silver Mines Inc
- 23 people died
- December 30, 2014 in a
- landslide that hit 5 barangays in Catbalogan City in Samar
- Tropical Storm Seniang
2014 Catbalogan Landslide
- low pressure area
- Panaon Island at the tip of Southern Leyte
- December 19, 2003.
- loose soil, boulders, and debris rolled down towards houses in Barangay Pinut-an in San Ricardo town, and in Sitio Lutao (Barangay Poblacion) and Barangay Punta in Liloan town.
- 154 people dead in Panaon Island due to the landslides.
2003 Panaon Island (Southern Leyte) debris flow
- Typhoon Rosing, was a catastrophic Category 5 super typhoon with 260 mph sustained winds.
- 10.829 billion Philippine pesos of damage
- 900 fatalities
- mudslides, flash flood and dam failure that resulted to flooding in the Central Philippines.
- strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines since 1970.
- rosing was retired in 1995
Typhoon Angela (1995) known as rosing in the philippines
- August 2011
- 4 fatalities and 2 injuries,
- Sagittarius Mines
- The victims were allegedly involved in illegal “banlas” or sluice mining, a method which employs the pouring of large amounts of water on a mountain’s surface to extract the rocks containing the gold ore. “Banlas” mining has reportedly become rampant in the mountains of Tampakan in the past two years.
Tampakan, South Cotabato landslide
- Typhoon Ompong
- landslide in Cordillera Administrative Region
- 11 bodies from a muddy mound covering two small-scale mining bunkhouses and a former miners’ bunkhouse.
2018 Cordillera Landslide
- 6.9-magnitude earthquake with an epicenter near the town of Tayasan in Negros Oriental occurred
- February 6, 2012
- landslide which buried a barangay, damaged 15,483 houses
- damage of P383 million on infrastructures and buildings
- 51 people died, 62 still missing, and 112 were injured.
2012 Central Visayas Earthquake
- Tropical storm “Chedeng”
- landslides that kill at more than
- 10 kiled people and bury seven houses in the southern gold mining town of Maco.
Aug. 8, 2007 Masara, Maco, Compostella Valley, Philippines Landslide
- Typhoon Rosita
- landslide
- 30 persons inside the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) building in Natonin, Mountain Province.
- Mud, rocks and boulders totally covered the building,
October 31, 2018 Mountain Province landslide
- Leyte Island at near peak strength, with maximum sustained
- typhhon with wind speeds of 160 knots, the strongest in the recorded history of the Western North Pacific.
- 41 km/hr as it reached Leyte, which was also one of the fastest among typhoons in the past 6 decades.
- caused the largest storm surge in the recorded history of Philippines.
- 7m at Tacloban, located at the northern end of Leyte Gulf.
storm surge was generated by the November 2013 Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan)
- last recorded tsunami in the Philippines that actually caused loss of life (41 fatalities)
- Verde Island Passage (between Batangas & Mindoro Island, affecting Puerto Galera)
- ML7.1 earthquake, 11km West of the Baco Islands.
- Tsunami waves were measured 6 to 8.5 meters high and 250 meters inland in areas that faced the earthquake epicenter.
November 15, 1994
- Moro Gulf
- Mw magnitude 7.3 or greater on the 23rd of July, and two significant aftershocks of magnitude 6.6 on the 24th and 29th. All of these were deep focus earthquakes, at depths from 565 km
The 2010 Mindanao earthquakes
magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurred at sea, approximately 75 miles west of General Santos, Mindanao.
- epicenter was located near the Cotabato Trench
- 15 deaths and roughly 100 injuries
- tsunamis reaching a maximum wave height of 3m at Kiamba, Maitum and Palimbang.
On March 5, 2002
- December 29, 2018
- undersea earthquake
- 7.2-magnitude RICHTER
- Mindanao
- epicenter was located at 162 kilometers southeast of Governor Generoso, Davao Oriental and its depth was measured at 49 kilometers,
- the strong shaking. Phivolcs said it was tectonic in origin
7.2 quake jolts Mindanao, triggers tsunami scare
- 150m wide sinkhole
- swallowed 5 houses in Itogon Benguet
- sinkhole was due to a ‘piping gully’ (
- Caused by Typhoon Lando
- The team also found geological weaknesses that can be traced back to the 1990 Luzon earthquake and and signs of water saturated cavities below the area.
October 2015 Sinkhole in Benguet
- Solar 1 tanker was hit by a hard rainstorm and sank off.
- 2100 tons of heavy oil spilled
- polluting about the 200 km of shoreline from Guimaras Island to Panay Island and Negros Island
- Over 450 hectares of protected mangroves with complex topography at Guimaras were also contaminated.
Guimaras Island Oil Spill (August 11,2006) (Event-Oil Spill; Where: Coast of Guimaras Island)
- SILT SPLILL in Toronto Nickel Mine in Narra, Palawan
- polluted the Pinagduguan River
- affected 6.8 hectares of farmlands
November 2012- CITINICKEL MINES and DEV”T CORPORATION SILT SPILL
- 10 February 2017
- magnitude (M5) 6.7 earthquake
- Surigao del Norte in Mindanao
- epicenter was located in Surigao Strait 16 km offshore northwest of Surigao City at a shallow depth of 10 km.
- The earthquake was generated by the movement of the Philippine Fault - Surigao segment.
2017 Surigao Earthquake
- January 5, 2012 disaster.
- 25 people were killed
- steep slopes, rugged land, and poor vegetation.
Pantukan Landslide in Mindanao
- December 16, 2017,
- 4 towns in Biliran province
- Tropical Storm Urduja (Kai-tak)
- landslides
- 42 people died in Naval, Caibiran, Biliran, and Almeria, while 14 others were missing.
- very high slope gradient in the affected areas and unstable grounds due to road development, farming, and poor drainage systems – mainly contributed to the landslides,
2017 Biliran landslides
- eruption of Mount Pinatubo,
- Typhoon Yunya (Diding)
- caused large amount of rainfall in the region that triggered lahar flows.
- Pyroclastic surges poured from the summit, reaching as far as 16 km (9.9 mi) away from their origin point
15 June 1991
- the world’s worst storm of 2012
- formed abnormally close to the Equator.
- generated an enormous debris flow in the Mayo River watershed
- Andap village in New Bataan municipality,
- burying areas 15 under rubble as thick as 9 meters and killing 566 people
Category 5 Super Typhoon Bopha
- Typhoon Ompong
- 58 peopledead
- landslide was caused due to the texture of the soil and the mountain’s steep slope
2018 Itogon, Benguet landslides
struck the eastern part of the philippines causing 122 casualties in the mountainous Bicol region and samar mostly due to landslides and flash floods.
December 29 2018 Typhoon Usman
- November 5, 1991,
- Typhoon Uring
- Ormoc City, Leyte
- wreaking havoc and burying the eastern and western plains of the province in water, sediment, and debris, where in just 15 minutes,
- waters rose by 7 feet and when the waters receded, left behind 2 feet deep of sediment
1991 flash flood that devastated Ormoc City
- magnitude 6.2 Earthquake
- July 12, 2011
- epicenter is located at 72 km S42W of Cauayan, Negros Occidental
- According to PHIVOLCS the earthquake was caused by the movement of the Negros Trench.
- Two aftershocks were also recorded; 5.7 and 5.5 magnitude
2011 Negros Occidental earthquake
A DPWH Second Engineering District building in Natonin, Mountain Province located in a landslide-prone area was buried in a landslide
- October 30, 2018
- 12 bodies recovered.
- The landslide was triggered due to the heavy rains brought by Typhoon Rosita.
DPWH 2nd enggr district building landslide
The official journal of GSP is the
“The Philippine Geologist”.
when the Society sponsored the “2nd Geological Convention and First Symposium on the Geology of the Philippines and Neighboring Countries” that was held in Manila. It was an exchange of ideas and information regarding a deeper understanding of the mineral resources of the country.
january 11-14 1967
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) was reorganized on June 10,1987 under ___________
Executive Order No 192, otherwise known as Reorganization Act of Department of Energy and Natural Resources.
The Philippines will host the next GEOSEA XV1 on ____
2020
The Geological Society of the Philippines was organized on ____________
VJ Day, September 2, 1945.
The objectives of the Society are: members
(1) to promote the science of geology and allied earth sciences;
(2) to foster the spirit of scientific research;
(3) to disseminate knowledge concerning the geology of the Philippines and the regions immediately surrounding it; and
(4) to protect and maintain a high professional and ethical standard in the practice of geology amongst its
the Mines and Geosciences Bureau became one of the staff bureaus of Department of Environment and Natural Resources
JUNE 10. 1987
the largest and oldest constituent scientific body in the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). Its primary objective is to precisely define global units (systems, series, and stages) of the International Chronostratigraphic Chart that, in turn, are the basis for the units (periods, epochs, and age) of the International Geologic Time Scale; thus setting global standards for the fundamental scale for expressing the history of the Earth.
The International Commission on Stratigraphy
