Tag: Nationwide earthquake drill

NDRRMC cancels nationwide earthquake drill scheduled on Thursday

(Eagle News) — The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council has cancelled the nationwide earthquake drill that was originally scheduled on Thursday, March 12. In a statement, NDRRMC Executive Director Ricardo Jalad  said the cancellation was to “to ensure public health safety of the drill participants and to prevent the possible risk of contracting COVID-19.” The announcement came a day after President Rodrigo Duterte said four additional COVID-19 cases had been confirmed in the […]

Nationwide earthquake drill on April 21

QUEZON City, Philippines – The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology reminded the public that there will be a nationwide simultaneous earthquake drill on April 21. PHILVOCS added that the earthquake drill is usually done twice or thrice a year and the earthquake drill on Thursday has no connection to the various earthquakes hitting different parts of the globe. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith […]