DAGUPAN
CITY, Pangasinan — Around 300 high-rise buildings have been pinpointed as
possible evacuation centers in case a tsunami hits the city.
Professor
Nicanor Melecio, consultant of the city government and head of the Public Alert
and Response Management Center, said these buildings will be evaluated by
engineers and architects working closely with the city government.
Their task
is to determine the structural stability of these buildings eyed as possible
evacuation centers.
The city
government will initiate a dialogue with owners of these structures in the hope
of signing a memorandum of agreement with them to open their buildings and
houses to evacuees in the event of a tsunami or high-intensity earthquake.
Earlier,
experts revealed that a tsunami as high as eight meters may hit coastal areas
of this province, particularly this city, in the event the Manila Trench that
starts offshore of Bolinao town triggers a magnitude 8 earthquake.
Since this
revelation by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
(Phivolcs), the Dagupan City government has strengthened its linkages with the
agency and sought the conduct of a series of seminars that will equip city
disaster risk reduction and management officials with more knowledge on how to
save lives when a tsunami strikes.
Corollary to
this, the mayor ordered Melecio to see what nearby municipalities the people of
Dagupan can run to for safety since it would take only 14 minutes from the
moment an undersea earthquake strikes before big waves hit the shores.
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