No need for face masks in Pangasinan
PANGASINENSES need not panic nor rush to buy their face masks to protect themselves from the ashfall created by the eruption of Taal Volcano in Batangas.
This was assured jointly by Ronn Dale Castillo, geological hazard information officer of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO), and Meliquin Bauzon, chief of the Public Alert Monitoring and Management Center in Dagupan City during the KBP Forum on Thursday.
Castillo also denied that a part of Eastern Pangasinan was affected by ash fall from the erupting Taal Volcano as reported in media.
He said Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Offices in Pangasinan confirmed no such thing occurred.
Castillo, however, said PDRRMO was on blue alert and its personnel were on call for possible mobilization.
Blue Alert means all members of the disaster risk reduction and management councils are on standby with their equipment ready to be deployed.
Admitting that Pangasinan is not under threat by the eruption of Taal Volcano because of the distance, from Batangas, Bauzon said Eastern Pangasinan is under ash fall warning and Central Pangasinan is under ash fall watch.
The real threat, according to Castillo, is the Manila Trench which is only 100 kilometers west of Pangasinan in the West Philippine Sea, which can generate a tsunami as high as nine meters when it moves.
“It is the threat of the Manila Trench where we were actually long been preparing in coordination with Phivolcs (Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology),” he said.
Phivolcs allayed fears that the volcanic activity on Taal could trigger a big earthquake in the Manila Trench. (Leonardo Micua)
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