It’s better to be prepared than to die not knowing what hit you.
“The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has chosen Las Piñas City as pilot site for proposed earthquake census that aims to identify public and private buildings, including residential houses vulnerable to earthquake damage,” reports Anna Liza Villas-Alavaren in the Manila Bulletin.
The program will kick off next week.
The report described the earthquake census as “similar to a population census.” Eventually, it shall be simultaneously carried out by the 17 local government units in the metropolis through house-to-house inspection and survey.
The MMDA has tapped civil engineers and local engineering students from various universities to conduct the quake census. The results will be used in the “retrofitting of public and private buildings—based on risk assessment and cost benefit analysis and other engineering, seismic, and geological models—to reduce quake structural deficiencies.”
