KIDAPAWAN CITY – Authorities have agreed to implement, by the first week of December, their synchronized efforts for the mass resettlement of some 28,000 residents displaced by the October 16, 29 and 31 earthquakes in North Cotabato and this city.
– Authorities have agreed to implement, by the first week of December, their synchronized efforts for the mass resettlement of some 28,000 residents displaced by the October 16, 29 and 31 earthquakes in North Cotabato and this city.
The meeting started with a report by Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer Mercedes Foronda, showing that the tremors had left 22 people dead, 221 others injured and one missing, 6,375 houses totally damaged, 12,299 residences partially destroyed, and 28,781 residents still displaced.
Engr. Hermes Daquipa of the Philippine Institute of Volcanoloy and Seismology Cotabato office said they have recorded, as of November 28, over 2,000 aftershocks. Catamco and Kidapawan City Mayor Joseph Evangelista, alongside officials in affected towns and villages, have pressed for speedy return or resettlement of 28,781affected residents, saying their prolonged displacement would be “costly” for the government and the donor community, and is susceptible to an evolution of local mendicancy.
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