By DAVAO TODAY
The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the rains will continue for the next three hours in Davao City, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat and Cotabato.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
“With the continuing aftershocks, more reports on damages are documented. More schools and houses were confirmed destroyed,” said Governor Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza.
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
“Strong earthquakes which are tectonic will cause aftershocks until the energy dissipates. In the case of Carmen which was hit by shallow quakes, the energy of the quake has little chance to dissipate when it reaches the surface.” — Jenila de Ocampo, Officer-in-charge of the Davao Seismic Station-Phivolcs
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
According to Jerome Barranco, Assistant Director of the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council-Office of the Civil Defense in Region XII, 60 houses were destroyed in Kimadsil village alone.
By DAVAO TODAY
Gov. Joey Salceda made the confirmation in a television interview. The fatalities were mountain climbers and a local tour guide.
By GILBERT L. PACIFICAR
Davao Today
“We should emulate the life of our lumad heroes who died in the struggle for defending the ancestral domain.” — Datu Monico Cayog, Kalumaran chairperson
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
“Maayo pa ang mga batan-on nakahuna-huna og repares aning bukid. Naghinaut ko nga daghan pang sama nila ang mohimo ani (I thank the youth for taking action to reforest our mountains. I hope more will do the same thing),” said Alice Lindasan, one of the residents, noting that nothing of this sort of help had been done to their community before.
By GILBERT L. PACIFICAR
Davao Today
The 18 ethno-linguistic tribes of the island together with other support groups have converged to hold the government of Noynoy Aquino accountable for the destruction of the IPs’ ancestral lands and the many cases of rights abuses against the peasant and lumad communities including extrajudicial killings.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
According to the US Geological Survey, the epicenter of the 5.1.-magnitude earthquake was at 7.240°N, 124.941°E, 8 Kilometer NNW of Linao.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“The results of the study will serve as basis in crafting the management plan for the tarsier in the region,” said DENR- 11 Executive Director Joselin Marcus Fragada.
