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                    [ArticleID] => 702707
                    [Title] => 2 more die in Bukidnon landslide
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Two more landslides hit the province of Bukidnon last Monday, raising the total number of fatalities to seven, disaster management officials said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805309 [AuthorName] => Alexis Romero [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 428568 [Title] => Thousands displaced by floods in Mindanao [Summary] =>

CAGAYAN DE ORO – About 5,000 families in the southern Philippines have been displaced by flash floods and large waves spawned by heavy rains, officials said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2009-01-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 358037 [Title] => Moderate quake hits S. Mindanao [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — A moderate earthquake registering 5.3 in the Richter scale rocked Davao City and the rest of Southern Mindanao at about 11:56 p.m. Tuesday night.

Residents were jolted from their sleep as the tremor lasted almost a minute, sending many to the streets in panic.

According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), the epicenter of the earthquake was in the Philippine Sea off the municipality of Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur on Mindanao’s eastern coast.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 343223 [Title] => 5 dead, 5 hurt in Compostela landslide [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — A landslide killed five people and injured five others in a rain-soaked village in a mining site in Compostela Valley Tuesday, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said.

Heavy rains triggered the slip that buried six houses in Barangay Napnapan in Pantukan town. The five survivors were brought to the Davao Regional Medical Center in Tagum, Davao del Norte, it added.

Carmelito Lupo, the OCD’s Southern Mindanao director, said the mining site is one of the landslide-prone areas in the region.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 322864 [Title] => Mt. Diwalwal settlers told to abandon area [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — The nearly 100,000 people living in the gold-rush site on Mt. Diwalwal in Monkayo, Compostela Valley have been told to abandon the area after experts identified it as among the high-risk areas for landslides in Southern Mindanao.

Monkayo Mayor Joel Brilliantes ordered the immediate evacuation of the settlers to prevent loss of lives should a disaster similar to that in Southern Leyte happen.

Brilliantes said a geo-science management team has been identifying which areas in the gold-rush site should be abandoned.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 322527 [Title] => Mt. Diwalwal under tight watch for landslides [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Authories here are tightly watching the gold rush site in Mt. Diwalwal, Monkayo, Compostela Valley and other mining areas in Southern Mindanao for possible landslides, especially with the continuous rains in the region for the past few weeks.

"We have been monitoring developments in Mt. Diwalwal as well as in the adjacent town of Pantukan because of the heavy rains and these areas are known to be prone to landslides," Office of the Civil Defense Region XI chief Carmelito Lupo told The STAR.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 322396 [Title] => Ten feared dead in Zambo mudslide [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — At least 10 people were missing and feared dead in another landslide that occurred Saturday in a village in Bayog town in Zamboanga del Sur.

The landslide occurred just as rescuers were fighting against time to retrieve more survivors in a similar tragedy that struck a farming village in Saint Bernard town in Southern Leyte.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 259723 [Title] => 2 children die, 6 hurt in Davao landslide [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Two children were killed while six others were injured when a landslide hit a downtown barangay in Mati, Davao Oriental last Friday afternoon.

Reports reaching the regional civil defense office said the children were playing near a construction site along Limatoc street in Sitio Marilog, Barangay Central when the landslide occurred.

The two fatalities were identified as Lea Balante, 7, and Aljun Lao, 6. They died while being rushed to the Mati Provincial Hospital.

The identities of the six survivors were not immediately available.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 256382 [Title] => Disaster might befall new gold-rush site, OCD fears [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — Regional officials of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) fear that a disaster might befall the newly discovered gold mining site at Mt. De Oro in Maco, Compostela Valley with the influx of thousands of people there.

Carmelito Lupo, the OCD’s Southern Mindanao (Region 11) director, said more than 6,000 small-scale miners are now in the gold-rush site in Barangay Barile.
[DatePublished] => 2004-07-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 146298 [Title] => Southern Mindanao flood damage: P330 M [Summary] => DAVAO CITY — The flash floods that struck 18 towns in Southern Mindanao (Region 11) have wreaked damage estimated at over P330 million, largely due to the collapse of several bridges in different parts of the region.

The flash floods, which killed eight people with 18 others still reported missing, were triggered by torrential rains since Jan. 1. More than 120,000 people were affected.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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