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 BEFORE,DURING,AFTER RESPONSE
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Earthquakes involve the powerful
movement of rocks
EARTHQUAKE. in the
THE
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EARTHQUAKE
An earthquake is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, ALL ABOUT
BEFORE,DURING,AFTER THE
EARTHQUAKE.
EARTHQUAKE
 crust.
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Phivolcsfrom
told:the suddensits
Calinog release of energy
on active faultin the Earth’s
The rapid release of energy
panaytoday
lithosphere / July
that 12, 2015
creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can
 creates
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seismic waves that travel range in size fromILOILO Cityare
those that – so
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 Scientists use the different speeds of
ROXAS Jalaur River for the People Movement
be felt to those violent enough to toss people around
criticized the latest statement of the
(JRPM)
destroy whole cities. The seismicity or seismic activity of
and
S
 seismic
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621-02-22waves to locate the epicenter Philippine Institute of Volcanology and
an area Seismology
refers to the frequency,
(Phivolcs) that type and size
excludes of
Calinog
 (the
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point on the surface directly earthquakes experienced over a period of time.
to those towns near the active West Panay
 above
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where the earthquake fault line.
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(ROXAS
(ROXAS CITY
CITY
of earthquakes.
EMERGENCY
EMERGENCY Can scientists
“The towns near thispredict
fault are
 The damage
RESPONSE
RESPONSE TEAM)
TEAM) caused by earthquakes earthquakes?
Lambunao, Janiuay, Maasin, Alimodian,
Tubungan, Leon, Igbaras, Miagao and San
 also
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depends on their depth and fault
No, andJoaquin in Iloilo; they
it is unlikely Ibajay, Malinao,
will ever be Madalag
able toin
CACAG
CACAG type.
(CAPIZ
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CITIZEN ACTION
ACTION GROUP)
GROUP) Aklan; Pandan in Antique; and Jamindan and
predict them. Scientists have tried many
 The
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earthquake that hit the Tohoku Tapaz in Capiz,” Phivolcs said
different ways of predicting earthquakes, but last week.
BFP region of
BFP (ROXAS
(ROXAS Japan
CITY
CITY FIRE
FIREon March 11, 2011,
STATION)
STATION) Its regional director Renato Solidum
none have been successful. On any particular
had a magnitude of 9.0 and killed Jr. said that “Earthquakes can happen any
 HOTLINE
HOTLINE 110 110 fault, scientists know there will be another
time in Western Visayas. Its residents must
Why does
 over thepeople.
15000
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prepare.”
there
 Theis an
most
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powerful earthquake ever have no way of Hetelling when itthat
also declared willthe
happen.
West Panay
recorded
PHILIPPINE
PHILIPPINE REDon
RED Earth(CAPIZ
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CROSS was in CHAPTER)
(CAPIZ Valdivia,
CHAPTER) fault line is active.
While the edges of faults are stuck together, HOW ARE EARTHQUAKES RECORDED?
Chile. Occurring in 1960, it had a “It lacked a very important
andthe522-14-67
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rest of the block is moving, the energy municipality, Calinog, where the largest
magnitude of 9.5. Earthquakes are recorded by instruments
that would
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normally cause the blocks to slide mega dam outside Luzon is set to erect. Did
called seismographs. The recording they make
COASTGUARD
COASTGUARD
past oneEARTHQUAKE
another(ROXAS
(ROXAS CITY)
CITY)
is being storedTIPS!
SAFETY up. When the it really forget to mention Calinog, or it hides
is called a seismogram.The seismograph has a
 of
force the moving blocks finally overcomes
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base that sets firmly in the ground, and a
the friction of the jagged edges of the fault and boundary municipality and lies between the
FEROCITY
FEROCITY (FEDERATION
(FEDERATION ROXAS
ROXAS CITY)
CITY) heavy towns
weightof that hangs (Iloilo)
free. andWhenTapazan
it unsticks, all that stored up energy is Lambunao
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643-00-96 earthquake causes the ground to
(Capiz),” said the JRPM in a statement.shake, the
released. The energy radiates outward from
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The group producedshakes too, but the
an image of
the fault in all directions in the form of seismic
hangingoverlapping
weight does not.showing
maps Instead the
the spring or
fault, the
waves Prepared
like ripples by:on April Joy The
a pond. Delandao
seismic
& Princess Joy Diaz string that it is hanging
municipality of Calinogfrom
and absorbs
the dam. all the
waves shake the earth as they move through Thedifference
fault line inreaches
movement. The positionup to the
between
it, and when the waves reach the earth’s municipalities
the shaking part of of theJamindan
seismographand andTapazthein
surface, they shake the ground and anything Capiz province, and the municipalities of
motionless part is what is recorded.
on it, like our houses and us! Libacao, Madalag, Ibajay, and Malinao in the