Rain-induced landslide hazard The map on the MGB’s website also indicates areas prone to rain-induced landslides with 3 colors – red, green, yellow.

These maps had already been available long before the landslide. The bureau had been reminding LGUs to use the hazard maps to prepare as early as 2012. The maps went online in 2015.

Unauthorized dumping of earth materials and construction debris on a sloped area along the Cebu Transcentral Highway (TCH) in ...

Torrential tropical rainstorms and unstable geology, coupled with deforestation and seismic activity, make parts of the Philippines vulnerable to disastrous landslides. It’s happened before ...

The last time the U.S. Geological Survey made a national map of landslide hazards, it did so on paper. It didn’t use laser imaging for landslide detection and it didn’t render the maps with ...

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At least 25 people have been killed in a landslide that buried dozens of people at a gold mining site in the southern Philippines.