Disaster Timeline 4D - C

Earthquake
July 27, 2022
IMPACT
Individuals and Families:
People died due to collapsing houses, buildings and falling debris.
Families lost their properties and houses most especially at the
epicenter of the earthquake.
Individual injuries were reported.
Psychological trauma.

Communities:
Collapsed bridges, damaged roads and landslides made the roads
impassable, blocking people and cars from getting help, basic needs
and necessities.
Collapsed community facilities and properties.
IMPACT
Government:
Economic damages- the government had to bring out money for the
response activities or rescue operations.
Increased costs resulting from recovery and reconstruction of damaged
properties.
They had to look for solutions on how to help the people start again,
especially those with major casualties.
ACTIONS TAKEN
Individuals and Families:
Practice of the duck, cover and hold.
Awareness and preparation on what to do by doing self and family
orientation.
Avoiding panic in times of the said disaster.
Secured house furnitures and planned what to do for aftershocks or in
case an earthquake occurs again.

Communities:
Orientation on what to do before, during and after an earthquake.
Availability of resources, basic needs and necessities for the people.
Evacuation areas.
ACTIONS TAKEN
Government:
Dissemination of information regarding the do’s and don'ts before,
during and after an earthquake through on-site and social media
announcements.
Planned and strategized areas where people can evacuate.
Availability of foods, medicines and shelters for people, especially those
with the most damages.
COVID-19
Pandemic
December 2019 - Present
IMPACT
Individuals and Families:
Loss of family members.
Individuals lost their livelihood resulting in financial strain.
People are at risk of falling into extreme poverty.
Without the means to earn an income during lockdowns, many are
unable to feed themselves and their families.

Communities:
Communities reported continued insufficient food supply and health,
sanitation, and nutrition issues.
IMPACT
Government:
Economic disruption - a huge drop in government income as industry
and commerce slowed.
The Philippines has secured P1 trillion in foreign loans so far to fund its
fight against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
ACTIONS TAKEN
Individuals and Families:
Preventive measures include physical or social distancing, quarantining, and
ventilation of indoor spaces, covering coughs and sneezes, hand washing, and
keeping unwashed hands away from the face. The use of face masks or coverings
has been recommended in public settings to minimize the risk of transmissions.
Staying at home.
Avoid crowded areas.
Limiting travels.
Compliance to COVID 19 protocols and vaccination.
Increase ventilation to ensure airborne particles are dispersed. Consider use of air
purifiers and other ventilation systems following expert advice where this is identified
as a necessary control
Some individuals started their own businesses during the pandemic as a temporary
source of income.
ACTIONS TAKEN
Communities:
Follow strict preventive measures include physical or social distancing,
quarantining, ventilation of indoor spaces, covering coughs and sneezes,
hand washing, and keeping unwashed hands away from the face.
Forbidding social gatherings.
Provide support to front line health workers and first respondent.
Strengthening barangay patrol.
Local community pantry.
ACTIONS TAKEN
Government:
Travel restrictions, strict border control, early implementation of
lockdowns, establishment of quarantine facilities, effective
communication to the public,
Implemented several quarantine protocols were then implemented
based on evaluation of IATF (ECQ, GCQ, MGCQ, etc.)
RAT and Antigen tests.
The closing of workplaces, stadiums, theaters, or shopping centers.
Teaching and assessment delivered online or modular.
Vaccination rollout.
Strengthening the protocols and rules for Covid-19.
Typhoon Flood Landslide
TYPHOON, FLOOD, LANDSLIDE

DATE TYPE AND NAME

September 26, 2022 “Super Typhoon Karding”
September 14, 2018 Typhoon Ompong/Mangkhut
October 06, 2009 Typhoon Pepeng/Parma
September 25, 2009 Typhoon Ondoy/Ketsana
IMPACT
Individuals and Families:
Loss of life due to landslide and a number of missing people after being
swept away by floodwaters.
People lost their livelihood particularly those who depend on
agriculture.
People, especially children and elderly have fallen ill due to the
continuous rainfall and less access to healthcare.
People are at risk of waterborne as well as other communicable
diseases due to poor sanitation facilities and limited access to safe
water.
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Communities:
Thousands of homes are damaged and destroyed.
Many infrastructures were destroyed and the majority of community
facilities were damaged by strong winds of the storm.
Some evacuation centers were damaged mainly by strong winds.
Limited access to major roads due to road slips, road collapse,
landslides and fallen debris.
Hanging wires, clogged or overflowing canals, dead trees, and
dangling branches.
Making the land unusable and preventing crop harvesting or planting
Risk of malnutrition because of the devastating damage to agricultural
crops and local food supplies.
IMPACT
Government:
The agriculture sector sustained the biggest loss with damages
amounting to Php 2.95 billion.
Economic and financial damage.
ACTIONS TAKEN
Individuals and Families:
People are forced to stay at evacuation centers.
Some chose to volunteer to help and by doing simple donations such as
hygiene kits, food and water.

Communities:
Worked closely with the local governments in the dissemination of relief
goods.
Others would organize a fundraiser.
Followed the advice of first responders.
ACTIONS TAKEN
Government:
Emergency crew worked round the clock to restore damaged power
and communication utilities.
Relief assistance support was provided particularly in isolated areas.
Financial assistance was given to those who were greatly affected by
the super typhoon.
Local authorities worked closely with private sectors to restore and
repair damaged road sections.
The NDRRMC operating centers and response clusters are still
instructed to continue monitoring the weather system’s development as
well as situation awareness. They also give help for relief, clearing,
search, rescue, and recovery operations as needed.
Forest Fire
January 16, 2021
IMPACT
Individuals and Families:
Health threats from smoke such as problems controlling asthma since
the fire remained for days.
Owned animals as source for living such as goats were burnt.

Communities:
Land owned forests burnt to ashes.
Livelihood loss including the gardens and plants of the affected
community.

Government:
Impact on environmental and economical costs.
ACTIONS TAKEN
Individuals and Families:
As soon as they noticed the fire, they contacted the local fire
department and authorities.
Evacuation of individuals with houses near the forest.
Preventive measures such as not to leave a fire unattended.

Communities:
In coordination with the Bureau of Fire Protection, public education and
information campaigns were conducted regarding prevention of forest
fires or man-caused fires following local regulations and when it comes
to lighting up fires, especially when igniting outdoors.
ACTIONS TAKEN
Government:
Deployment of fire fighting personnel.
Fielding out of forest protection officers in fire prone area.
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Volcanic
Eruption
Bulusan Volcanic Eruption
(Sorsogon Province, Philippines)

June 5, 2022
IMPACT
Individuals and Families:
Individuals who inhale ashfall can cause irritation and breathing
problems, particularly among the elderly, children, expectant mothers,
and those with respiratory disorders.
Families were driven to flee their homes, leaving everything behind.

Communities:
People left their livestocks along with their livelihoods not knowing what
they were going to come back to.
Crops were affected and destroyed. They became rotten as a result of
the ash, and they can no longer be sold at a reasonable price.
IMPACT
Government:
Need for enforcement of economic policies and struggles to balance
their budget because of the economic crisis brought by the eruption
including damage to houses, infrastructure, and lands.
Updated risk information and timely assessments of damages and needs
of people.
ACTIONS TAKEN
Individuals and Families:
Preventive measures including wearing of face mask or covering the nose
and mouth with a handkerchief or cloth.
Staying indoors since volcanic ash is hazardous to health, especially if you
have respiratory problems such as asthma.

Communities:
Followed the evacuation order issued by the government.
Conducted education campaigns by barangay leaders and residents to
teach the community on the meaning of alert levels and other warning
signals.
Barangay leaders coordinated with municipal and national governments
with regards to the needs of their members in the event of any disaster.
ACTIONS TAKEN
Government:
Taking out funds for rehabilitation of each area.
Provincial disaster management teams distribute stocks such as foods,
nebulizers, cough syrup, and vitamins to affected towns.
Monitoring of volcanic activities.
Warfare
Marawi Crisis

May 23, 2017

IMPACT
Individuals and Families:
Loss of dozens of lives.
Christians in particular singled out for brutal attacks, including grisly
extrajudicial killings.
They were held hostage for several weeks, they became slaves.
Lack of sleep.

Communities:
Widespread destruction of homes and property.
Forced labor and used them as human shields.
Mass displacement of civilians.
Rain became the means for drinking.
IMPACT
Government:
Economic, social, cultural, and political destruction.
Unpreparedness of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for an
urban fight.
ACTIONS TAKEN
Individuals and Families:
Attempted to escape.

Communities:
Most of the city's 200,000 residents have fled.

Government:
Air and ground assaults by government forces.
Restriction on access to Marawi.
Reconstruction and rehabilitation of Marawi.