What are the places included in East Valley Fault?
The Valley Fault System is a dextral strike-slip type fault that traverses primarily in the eastern portion of Metro Manila and other provinces such as Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite, and Laguna that sums up to a total length of 146.71 kilometers.
Where is Eastern fault located?
The East Valley Fault straddles 10 kilometers in Rizal province while the West Valley Fault runs over more than 100 km through the provinces of Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite and Laguna, and Metro Manila.
How do we know if your place is located in the fault line?
To determine the distance of your current location to the nearest fault, turn on your gadget’s tracking device. Click the “VFS Fault Nearest You” or “Active Fault Nearest You”. You may click on “Active Fault Based on Location” tab if you want to know the distance of a Barangay to the nearest active fault.
What are the places cities found across the West Valley Fault System?
The West Valley Fault is 100 kilometers in length and traverses the cities of Metro Manila namely Taguig, Muntinlupa, Paranaque, Quezon City, Pasig, Makati, and Marikina as well as nearby provinces of Rizal, Laguna, Cavite, and Bulacan. These places will suffer greatly when this fault move.
What cities will be affected by the Big One?
The ‘Big One’ is a hypothetical earthquake of magnitude ~8 or greater that is expected to happen along the SAF. Such a quake will produce devastation to human civilization within about 50-100 miles of the SAF quake zone, especially in urban areas like Palm Springs, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Which place lies along an active fault?
Earthquakes. The central Philippine Fault Zone consisting of the Guinayangan, Masbate, and Central Leyte faults are the most seismically active regions transecting the islands of Bondoc to Leyte.
Where is the West Valley fault located?
Metro Manila
The West Valley Fault is 100 kilometers in length and traverses the cities of Metro Manila namely Taguig, Muntinlupa, Paranaque, Quezon City, Pasig, Makati, and Marikina as well as nearby provinces of Rizal, Laguna, Cavite, and Bulacan. These places will suffer greatly when this fault move.
How far from the fault line is safe?
But first, what is considered a safe distance from a fault line? PhiVolcs recommends avoiding construction within five meters on each side of a fault trace. This is equivalent to a total width of 10 meters. This is considered the ideal “10-meter wide no-build zone” in the vicinity of a fault.
What is considered a safe distance from a fault line?
Phivolcs now recommends avoiding construction within 5 meters on each side of a fault trace, or a total width of 10 meters. We may call this the ideal “10-meter wide no-build zone” in the vicinity of a fault.
Which area in the Philippines is the most prone to earthquake?
The ten provinces most at risk of earthquakes – due to the presence of or their nearness to active faults and trenches – include Surigao del Sur, La Union, Benguet, Pangasinan, Tarlac, Pampanga, Ifugao, Davao Oriental, Nueva Vizcaya and Nueva Ecija (Manila Observatory, 2005).
When was the last time West Valley Fault move?
1658
The West Valley Fault last moved in 1658, and experts warn that a major quake along the fault could kill 50,000 people if residents are caught unprepared.