If Cebu and Bohol had 7.2 magnitude earthquakes, (and we have the West Valley Fault), can MM be far behind?

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Are you ready when the time comes?


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Repost from Filosofo Tasyo site


                                  

                                        

 
 3/18 scenarios
Primer on Bohol Earthquake last October 15 2013

Is Metro Manila prepared for an earthquake for an intensity as what hit Bohol last Tuesday.  There has been various estimates but they all agree that casualties and damages especially to buildings will be great.  We all know that MM lies along a major fault (the Marikina fault and its extends all the way to Rizal and even Alabang)  It is difficult to understand why despite this knowledge building officials gave permits to high rise (approaching and beyond 50 stories)  I hope they have been designed to withstand earthquakes of 7 or more in magnitude.

As early as June 8, 2013 an article was written in Inquirer which says that 38,000 will be killed and 100,000 will be injured, roads will be impassable, there will be fires, and the MoA area will be a mass grave.  This was what MM Chair Francis Tolentino told PMA President Leo Olarte in a closed meeting as MMDA prepares for MM earthquake which goes through a 200 year cycle (it is due).  The preparation is called OMY (oplan metro yakal).  This is due to the proximity to West Valley fault which has a story of powerful quakes in the past

It will damage 13% of the 170,000 residential buildings and render more 1.2 million people homeless.  It can damage 20% of the govt hospitals, building and facilities.

 The earthquake will divide MM into four regions

 


Are we prepared;  are we ready.  As the Bible says, we do not know the time and hour of the day.



The Philstar article yesterday on the other hand, basing on the 2004 study made by JICA entitled MMEIR (Metro Manila Earthquake Impact Reduction) said 50,000 will be killed.  It also said 40% of the residential buildings will be affected:  170,000 houses will collapse and 340,000 will be damaged. JICA painted 18 scenarios

Are you afraid?  Are you prepared?

                                

MM Air Quality is Still Bad

Nothing is visible at the MM skyline;  air quality is badder

Study of Pollution of Mass Destruction

Effective Cures Can be Cheap

I tried to study using the camera, how the air pollution look like from afar MM. This is a crude way of "studying it"  I am sure scientists from DENR, DOST, UP have better ways of measuring the air pollution.  But I am aghast at what I saw....

   Using the Nikon coolpix telephoto lens, this is how smoke starts to engulf buildings at Global City.  Note the time.


Morning views/monitoring

                               Paranaque area was still  visible

 x                              So was Alabang area;  bird in flight at the foreground

                                           Paranaque area

                                              Dramatic view of the SLEX skyline

Deteriorating air quality:

                                        Skies begin to darken, bird in the foreground

                                        Global City and surrounding areas begin to disappear

                                            Clear skies but dark cities

                              It looks like its post New Year celebration

                                   Can you still identify the place?

                               Opaque view of Global City

                              Bancas and joggers are visible;  Taytay and Pasig skyline arent!

                             The fish pens, the hut, the banca are visible, western skyline unclear

   Are we not wondering if Metro Manila commuters and residents still have functional respiratory system if this is their environment?  I am glad I live in this area.  Or we look the same from afar?


Are the  scientists measuring the air quality?

Are they taking corrective action?

What is the effect on the health of MM residents and commuters of this phenomenon.?


Pollution in the afternoon

Maybe because of  the wind and the very warm temperature, the dark skies over the Global City area disappeared.  We should be thankful for the very warm temperature;  they must have vaporized the polluting air.  But the dark skies moved to SLEX and Alabang area.

                               Paranaque area

                                Alabang and SLEX area

                                 Global City area now cleared of fumes, but still hazy though

                                 The Southwestern side (SLEX) hardly visible

           The buildings at Global city are visible from Lakeside;  now they can breathe?


Stunning sunset views

  Stunning Sunset showing clear skies, the high temp vaporized the pollutants?

      Postcard perfect picture

This is the normal view of the other side of the lake

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  Day is done, done the day.   God is nigh.