The Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office of Carmen, Surigao del Sur conducted the 3rd Quarterly National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill on September 7, 2023 at 2PM in Barangay Cancavan. The drill had the objectives of raising public awareness of earthquakes, teaching proper reactions during and after one, and testing the barangay's emergency response. Over 70 people participated, including the barangay local government unit and school students. The scenario involved a 5.6 magnitude quake causing building collapses and casualties. The barangay and municipal emergency operations centers practiced managing the incident response according to established standards and procedures.
The Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office of Carmen, Surigao del Sur conducted the 3rd Quarterly National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill on September 7, 2023 at 2PM in Barangay Cancavan. The drill had the objectives of raising public awareness of earthquakes, teaching proper reactions during and after one, and testing the barangay's emergency response. Over 70 people participated, including the barangay local government unit and school students. The scenario involved a 5.6 magnitude quake causing building collapses and casualties. The barangay and municipal emergency operations centers practiced managing the incident response according to established standards and procedures.
The Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office of Carmen, Surigao del Sur conducted the 3rd Quarterly National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill on September 7, 2023 at 2PM in Barangay Cancavan. The drill had the objectives of raising public awareness of earthquakes, teaching proper reactions during and after one, and testing the barangay's emergency response. Over 70 people participated, including the barangay local government unit and school students. The scenario involved a 5.6 magnitude quake causing building collapses and casualties. The barangay and municipal emergency operations centers practiced managing the incident response according to established standards and procedures.
The Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office of Carmen, Surigao del Sur conducted the 3rd Quarterly National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill on September 7, 2023 at 2PM in Barangay Cancavan. The drill had the objectives of raising public awareness of earthquakes, teaching proper reactions during and after one, and testing the barangay's emergency response. Over 70 people participated, including the barangay local government unit and school students. The scenario involved a 5.6 magnitude quake causing building collapses and casualties. The barangay and municipal emergency operations centers practiced managing the incident response according to established standards and procedures.
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Republic of the Philippines
PROVINCE OF SURIGAO DEL SUR
Municipality of Carmen
Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office
AFTER ACTIVITY REPORT
TITLE OF ACTIVITY 3rd Quarterly National Simultaneous Earthquake Drill
VENUE/LOCATION Barangay Cancavan, Carmen, Surigao del Sur DATE September 7, 2023 @ 2PM RA 10121 or The Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 sec 12 (4), (10)states that LDRRMO shall organize and conduct training, orientation, and knowledge management activities on disaster risk reduction and management at the local level and I BACKGROUND disseminate information and raise public awareness about those hazards, vulnerabilities, and risks, their nature, effects, early warning signs and counter –measures. Rule 6, Section 7 of IRR of the RA10121 states that “Public awareness shall also be undertaken through the conduct of drills by the LDRRM Office on a regular basis.”
These are the basic objectives for the activity as follows:
a. To provide public awareness and information about
the nature of earthquake its potential adverse effects to the community; b. Impart to the participants proper reactions during and after the earthquake such as execution of “duck, cover, hold”, evacuation, and locating the designated assemble area; c. Help the BDRRMCs on how to conduct the drill by OBJECTIVES providing them the orientations and activating their emergency response cluster to manage the incident; d. Provide brouchers on earthquake disaster preparedness information after the drill. e. To encourage the participation of the community to engage and actively part of the drills. Over-all assessment This quarter our host was the BLGU-Cancavan, Carmen, SDS and Cancavan Elementary School assisted by Municipal Emergency Response Cluster (Search and Rescue and Health and Emergency Response Teams).The coordination includes two-day of BDRRMC meetings and one day meeting at the municipal level.
The scenario is a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that severely
affected the barangay causing few building collapse and four casualties. The Barangay Emergency Operations Center initially manage the incident but due to the magnitude way beyond their scope the Municipal Emergency Operations Center took charge of the incident using the Incident Command System mechanism- Operations and was able to manage the incident.
Over-all assessment of the drill was the BDRRMC-
Cancavan able to met the appropriate mechanisms and standards on how to manage the incident and to conduct the drill. MDRRM Office Municipal Police Station-PNP Facilitators Municipal Fire Station-BFP Municipal Health Office BLGU-Cancanva-20 Participants School-52