8 villages in landslide-hit Baybay City tagged as danger zones radyonatin.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from radyonatin.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
CATASTROPHE. The landslide site in Kan-ipa village, Baybay City, Leyte province in this April 10, 2022 photo. The Mines and Geosciences Bureau on Friday (April 29, 2022) identified eight sites in the city as highly susceptible to landslides.(Contributed photo) TACLOBAN CITY - The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) regional office here on Friday initially identified eight villages in Baybay City as danger zones after showing early signs of landslides. The MGB found the susceptibility of these communities after a thorough assessment of these areas in response to reports from residents of visible tension cracks. MGB Eastern Visayas Regional Director Carlos Tayag said these sites are in the villages of Mailhi, Kantagnos, Bunga, Maypatag, Makinhas, Cagumay, Mag-aso, and Kan-ipa. "Not all of these areas had occurrence of catastrophic landslide on April 10, but the presence of these cracks in steep slopes will surely trigger landslide if there is heavy rainfall," Tayag told reporter
Heavy rainfall from a tropical depression has caused severe flooding, mudslides and landslides in the Philippines, displacing thousands of people and causing at least 20 fatalities. A Low Pressure Area brought heavy rainfall in areas of the.
CASUALTY. One of the landslide victims laid to rest at the Immaculada Conception Memorial Gardens in Baybay City on Sunday (April 17, 2022). The landslide death toll in Baybay City and Abuyog in Leyte has climbed to 170 while 176 remained missing as of April 17 as responders continue retrieval operations one week after the tragedy. (Photo courtesy of Baybay City information office) TACLOBAN CITY - The death toll from the landslides in Baybay City and Abuyog in Leyte has climbed to 170 while 176 remained missing as of Sunday as responders continue retrieval operations one week after the tragedy. Local government units reported that 116 bodies were retrieved in landslide-hit villages of Baybay City and 54 in landslide-affected communities in Abuyog town. The Baybay city disaster and risk reduction management office said that most of the corpses were found in Kantagnos village with 44, followed by Mailhi with 22, and Bunga with 17. Bodies were also unearthed in the villages of San Agustin
Leyte death toll due to Agaton reaches 147 cnnphilippines.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cnnphilippines.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.