Krista Arguzon

Hazard Mapping

Maybunga, Pasig City Hazard Map

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Figure 1. Maybunga Pasig Map

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Legend: - The Pasig River

- Roads
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BLACK LETTERS - Important Locations

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YELLOW LETTERS - Hospitals

WHITE LETTER - Road Names
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Guide Questions:
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1. Hazard mapping is very crucial in identifying natural disasters and threats in a community. In
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our current day and age, how important do you think is this device/instrument?
Answer: Hazard map is very important in our community because Pasig City is
surrounded by the Marikina and Pasig River and considered as a flood prone area, there are also
a lot of individual that live near the river or beside the river. Hazard maps offer valuable
knowledge to assist individuals recognize the dangers of natural hazards and to help alleviate

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 catastrophes. Hazard maps show the magnitude of projected risk areas and can be linked with
disaster control information such as different evacuation sites per barangay, evacuation routes,
and other important information. Hazard map and other precautionary measures could help save
a human life during catastrophe.

2. Does your barangay or municipality have hazard maps? If yes, how well do people know
about it? If not, why do you think these developments are not being prioritized?
Answer: Hazard maps are posted in different barangay halls in Pasig. There is also a lot
of channels where the City Government of Pasig convey information. The Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management Office of Pasig also conduct different seminars and training for their
volunteers. All these preparations for expected calamities like typhoon and unexpected ones like
earthquakes are important because life is always at risks during catastrophe. The goal is to be
prepare when a calamity occurs and save a life because of being precautious.

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3. In comparison to the earlier years/decades, how do you think our ancestors predict or identify
possible disasters in their community? Do you think technology today helps more in savings

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lives than before? Why?
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Answer: I do not think that our ancestors was able to predict or identify possible disasters
in the community, for example the urban planning in Metro Manila is not applicable or suitable
to minimize flood. Also, in predicting the upcoming typhoon before they just based it on the
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color of the sky unlike today that there are advance equipment and also agency of government to
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monitor upcoming typhoon, monitor activities of volcanoes and measure the intensity of
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earthquakes. With the help of science and technology we`ve come a long way in the manner of
preparing whenever there is an upcoming typhoon, thousands of lives had been save and up until
today there is still a continuous improvement being made for a better response in calamities.
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