Info Drive

I'm headed (again!) for fieldwork tommorow. Not actually a fieldwork but some sort of information-education campaign on the different hazards in REINA, in Quezon Province. Last year, this province was hit by four typhoons in less than two weeks. The third typhoon poured out 375 mm of rain in one day, more than three times the critical amount for landslide initiation worldwide. As a result, more than a thousand died.

UNDP provided funds for a multi-hazards study of REINA and a part of this project is info campaign and capacity-building for the locals.

The info drive started three weeks ago and it was only last week that I was able to join the group. I had to accompany some visiting Japanese scientists for field work in Gabaldon the previous week.

I am assigned to give a lecture on earthquake hazards (REINA area is transected by an active fault).

I have been giving lectures about active faults to the common tao before and I found out that this is quite a challenge. Abstract concepts in tectonics have to explained in simple terms.