{"id":237120,"date":"2019-11-11T20:17:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T01:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=237120"},"modified":"2019-11-11T20:17:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T01:17:05","slug":"open-pit-mines-cant-trigger-earthquakes-mgb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/11\/11\/open-pit-mines-cant-trigger-earthquakes-mgb\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-pit mines can&#8217;t trigger earthquakes: MGB"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_237121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237121\" style=\"width: 1440px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1440px-Twincreeksblast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237121\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1440px-Twincreeksblast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1440px-Twincreeksblast.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1440px-Twincreeksblast-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1440px-Twincreeksblast-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1440px-Twincreeksblast-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Rock blasting at the large open-pit Twin Creeks gold mine in Nevada, United States. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=8338477\">Photo By Geomartin\/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>&#8212; Open-pit mining cannot induce fault movements or earthquakes, a Mines and Geoscience Bureau (MGB) official said in a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>MGB Mining Technology Division chief, Engineer Teodorico Sandoval, made this comment in the wake of the concerns on social media blaming mining activities such as open-pit operations on the occurrence of earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The source or the generator of the earthquakes are the so-called faultlines located in parts of the Philippines,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The safety of mining operations was put into a discussion after the series of powerful earthquakes and aftershocks jolted areas in mainland Mindanao last month.<\/p>\n<p>He added that blasting an open-pit mine would not affect the fault movement underneath to trigger an earthquake or any geologic activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would not be possible that an open-pit operation would be the source of the earthquake, a fault movement requires a large amount of energy, so the open-pit mining is not possible to generate or provoke temblor,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mechanism of the earthquakes involves the release of pressures from the faultlines, which is the tectonic movement that is happening in our country,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Former environment secretary Gina Lopez previously imposed a ban on open-pit mining through Department Administrative Order (DAO) 2017-10.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2018, the Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC) recommended the lifting of the ban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8212; Open-pit mining cannot induce fault movements or earthquakes, a Mines and Geoscience Bureau (MGB) official said in a press &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":237121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-lade-jean-kabagani","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237122,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237120\/revisions\/237122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}