{"id":51960,"date":"2015-06-16T17:49:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T09:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51960"},"modified":"2015-06-16T17:49:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T09:49:05","slug":"pinatubo-lahar-threats-far-from-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/16\/pinatubo-lahar-threats-far-from-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinatubo lahar threats far from over"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51962\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mount_Pinatubo_20081229_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51962\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mount_Pinatubo_20081229_01-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mount_Pinatubo_20081229_01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mount_Pinatubo_20081229_01-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; More than two decades after Mt. Pinatubo erupted, significant deposits of lahar and other volcanic materials are still found on its slopes and on eight rivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been quite a long time since lahar events had occurred [during severe typhoons]. But this does not mean that the lahar threat is over. Extreme rainfall events pose lahar threats,\u201d Solidum said in a telephone interview\u00a0with the Philippine Daily Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>A chief volcanologist of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said that the rivers identified\u00a0drains to\u00a0Pampanga, Zambales and Tarlac provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Phivolcs Director Renato Solidum Jr. said that the residents in Central Luzon provinces especially those near the volcano still has to remain vigilant.<\/p>\n<p>This is in view of the upcoming heavy rains and typhoons that may come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople should be extra vigilant and ready with their contingency plans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also warned against residents settling inside the FVR Megadike as the area is used to trap lahar.<\/p>\n<p>The U-shaped, 53-km long megadike is enclosing the villages of Bacolor town.<\/p>\n<p>He added that there are \u00a0no certificates or permits for commercial or residential establishments in the area.<\/p>\n<p>This is after several foreign and local companies have started to setup their equipment to produce\u00a0\u201cvibro\u201d or finer sand beside the eastern side of the megadike in Barangay Maliwalu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; More than two decades after Mt. Pinatubo erupted, significant deposits of lahar and other volcanic materials are still &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":51962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51960","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=51960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}