You might say that Las Piñas is the epicenter of this measure.
READ: Las Piñas picked as pilot site for quake census
“Today, Jan 29, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) began the first government-led ‘earthquake census’ in the country, starting in Las Piñas City,” reports Jaymee T. Gamil in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
According to the MMDA’s itinerary, they started at with the risk survey on buildings in Barangay (village) Pamplona 3.
The quake census is being undertaken by “at least 20 teams of inspectors composed of more than a hundred MMDA engineers, members of the Philippine Civil Engineers (PICE), city building officials, and engineering students.”
The survey is in keeping with the Metro Manila Council Resolution No. 13-19 issued in 2013, which called for an earthquake census in all the barangays of the 17 local government units of the National Capital Region. The resolution was passed shortly after a magnitude 7.2 quake hit Bohol and Cebu provinces.
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