VOL. 6 ISSUE 158 • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2013
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REHABILITATION. Laborers prepare to mix cement and sand which will be used for the plastering of ossuaries and compartmentalized niches at the Wireless Public Cemetery in Madapo Hills, Davao City yesterday. The newly-built ossuaries will be fully utilized soon as rehabilitation is now 90-percent finished. Lean Daval Jr.
Will Davao City survive a “Bohol-type”tremor?
MGB: Obey Building Code S
ASSISTANCE. Mayor Rodrigo Duterte hands over a cheque worth P1 Million to Maribojoc town Mayor Leoncio “Jun” Evasco, who served as Duterte’s Chief of Staff. Duterte visited Bohol and Cebu over the weekend to personally deliver the financial assistance of the City Government of Davao to cities and municipalities affected by the recent earthquake. CMO
HOULD a 7.2 magnitude Bohol type quake, which claimed 186 lives, happen in Davao City, the extent of destruction would depend on the readiness of private and public structures to follow the building code, according to the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) 11. MGB supervising science research specialist Engr. Noel Angeles told Edge Davao yesterday that the new high rise buildings here followed the building code and will most likely survive the quake. He said, however, “if there were mischiefs done during construction, like the contractor taking the materials to squeeze some money out of it, or speeding up the construction thereby neglecting important details in the process,” then the rate of survival
will definitely decrease. The building code mandates that high rise buildings should have rollers in their foundation, to accommodate seismic waves from an earthquake, which makes the structure sway instead of it crumbling down. There are two major active fault lines in Mindanao, The Philippine Fault and the Mindanao Central Fault. While Bohol’s earthquake rocked the island in an up and down manner, these two faults produce earthquakes in a lateral manner. The Philippine Fault line lies along Davao Oriental, Compostela Valley, parts of Davao del Norte, Agusan and Surigao, while Central Mindanao lies along Cotabato region and Bukidnon. The kind of soil is another important
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