DISASTER triggers are being studied to have a more resilient Cordillera.
Margarita Dizon of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said projects rolled out this year is aimed to better equip the region for emergencies.
Projects set to finish this year are a satellite-based rainfall monitoring system and an early warning system for landslides. Both will have an output of a hazard map for disasters triggered by quakes and heavy rain to enable communities to prepare and be resilient.
Dizon said earthquake is a way of releasing energy, adding that smaller sporadic quakes are better than the big one.
In the Cordillera, hazard maps have been made in 2011 for Benguet and Abra which was then included in 27 provinces needing assessments.
Dizon said the project means to update and include other areas into their scope for hazard mapping.
Meanwhile the rainfall monitoring system will measure in real time the amount of rainfall and help determine how susceptible the area is to an impending landslide, giving time for communities to evacuate and for local governments to implement corresponding disaster plans.
The output of the project is a hazard map on a global system to warn communities in real time.
Dizon is part of a team which gave a talk during the Cordillera Business forum on MSME Development and Disaster Resilience by the Department of Trade and Industry which aims to make businesses disaster resilient in the region.