DepEd’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Service (DRRMS) has been monitoring the schools after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that hit Abra and neighboring provinces on July 27.
Pacpaca Elementary School located in Luba is among the schools damaged by the Abra quake.
Available data of Aug. 5 showed that 674 schools are affected from six regions in Luzon. DepEd DRRMS also gathers data on infrastructure and non-infrastructure damages and casualties in schools in the affected areas. DepEd said that the Cordillera Administrative Region recorded the highest number of affected schools with 394, followed by Region I with 164, and Region II with 75 affected schools.
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