Philippe: There’s been talks about the big one, and they’re expecting another big one, sooner or later.
Background: Paano kung tumama sa Pilipinas ang the big one? Ito yung magnitude 7.2 earthquake sa West Valley Fault, na maaaring tumama sa Metro Manila at mga kalapit na probinsya. Ayon sa Phevox, tinatayang aabot sa 50,000 ang mamamatay kung magkataon.
Philippe: In the western countries, or in the progressive countries, that are almost, you know, world class, first thing they do, duck and hide. Alam mo unang ginagawa nila? This is Filipino culture. Ipopose nila. May lindol ba?
Background: May regular ding earthquake drills para makabisa natin ang gagawin at hindi magpanik sakaling lumindol.
Philippe: What would you do at 8 magnitude?
Mark: Anong sinagsabi nung aking kaibigan na city engineer? Mas safe pa raw na naasa.
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Philippe: The big one. Earthquakes. Yeah, from time to time may ano tayo, right? Okay.
What do you do during earthquakes? How do you prepare for it?
Mark: Ang hirap na tanong.
Philippe: Hindi. It’s good, you know why?
Philippe: Because we tend to educate the viewers and our followers so at least aware sila pag may lindol, anong gagawin? Alam mo unang ginagawa nila? This is Filipino culture.
Ipapost nila. May lindol ba? Yan ang ipapost nila. Or lumilindol. That’s the first thing they do.
Use their phone. Ipost on Facebook. In the western countries or in the progressive countries that are almost, you know, world class. First thing they do? Duck and hide.
Mclaine: Diretso bunker.
Philippe: Hindi, tayo. Lindol.
Mclaine: Ay lumindol. You’ll see updates sa Facebook.
Philippe: Duck and hide. We have a protocol at back at home. Especially for the kids.
Kung wala kami doon, at let’s say doon lang yung mga yaya, may protocol na kami for all those disasters. Actually, I have a document here about it. So kung anong gagawin nila, where to go, and what to avoid.
Philippe: So dapat open area. Mapuntahan nila. Yun lang, kung wala kasing lindol, sometimes the street would just split. Which doesn’t happen here in Pinas. Unless magnitude 8 here.
Mclaine: Or nandun ka sa fault line.
Philippe: Yes. Let’s look up fault line. Let’s look at Metro Manila fault line.
So ito yung mga, these are, okay, let’s have a look. It’s quite long. Ang inaano ko lang is through Metro Manila.
Philippe: San? So we have two fault lines. We have the East Valley and the West Valley. So the East Valley is sa may Rizal area.
It goes all the way from San Mateo up to Pasig. So there’s a line to it. Now, yung West Valley fault, which is the longest, longer than the East, it goes all the way, parang syang 10 kilometers. Oh!East Valley, yung maliit, is 10 kilometers lang.
Philippe: The West is 100 kilometers long. And it goes from the portions of Quezon City, Pasig, Marikina, Makati, Taguig, and Montinlupa in Metro Manila.
So up to Montinlupa ang fault line. So if we talk about the big one, may magnitude 8. So ito yung ma-affected. Part of QC, which is yung area ng near Batasan, near Furview, near San Mateo, those areas in Quezon City. Ito part of Taguig, part of Pasig as well.
Mahaba sya, 100 kilometers. So these are the places that have to be careful, especially for the big one. Kasi ang there’s been talks about the big one.
Philippe: There’s been talks. When was the biggest earthquake in the Philippines. 7.9 magnitude.
1976 in the 1976 Morogulf earthquake. 7.9. That was the 8.
Yan ato yung di ba si Baguio, ang daming disaster si Baguio, right? I think that was the big one. And they’re expecting another big one, sooner or later.
Philippe: The next, we don’t know. It could be next year, after 10 years, after 100 years, we don’t know. Pero there’s an area, I saw a documentary that there was an area in I think near Taguig. Nakita na yung hati, nasa fault line, na-document siya.
So parang part of the street was, nakita nila yung changes all throughout the years. Na medyo yung isa palubog nila dun sa fault line.
Philippe: Knowing that, sabi nang in-interview yung isang matanda, kasi dumada yung fault line sa bahay niya. Knowing that, may mga cracks yung bahay. Ayaw pa niya umalis. Sabi niya, dito ako lumaki.
Dito ako, wala na. Saan ako lilipat? Imagine, ganyan na. Parang 6 inches na. Ando na yung warning signs. So what would you do at magnitude 8?
Mclaine: I can never tell.
Philippe: Nasa ano na tayo, 15 floor pa lang tayo.
Mark: What do I do? I will sinabi mo kanina, drop back.
Mark: I mean, ano magagawa mo? Talagang, kung oras mo na, oras mo na. Buildings like this, mag-sway.
Philippe: Na-experience ko yan sa Ortigas, mag-sway lang
Mark: Actually, sabi nung aking kaibigan na city engineer, mas safe parang nasa building ka kapag nag-earthquake. Kasi talagang it is designed para sa mga earthquake.
Philippe: Lalo yung mga new buildings?
Mark: Yes, lalo na yung mga new buildings. So, parang sabi niya, it’s safer na nalulun ka sa ano.
Kasi nga, nakadesign siya. Anticipated ng mga civil engineer yan. Pagka earthquake ay ganito kalakas, kaya pa niya.
Mark: Pero kung more than that, yun, medyo alangan din siya
Philippe: Yung mga buildings mo, inayos mo ba?
Mark: Actually, hindi. Hindi naman siya ganoon kasi katataas. Okay lang naman siguro yun.
Philippe: ang dami mong mga buildings.
Yung mga buildings mo, kailangang may earthquake-proof.
Mark: Building lang. Buildings e.
