ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / September 10, 2008) – Philippine geologists have discovered a huge crack on a village in Zamboanga City and warned residents to stay away from the area because of possible landslide.
The Mine and Geosciences Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources said the crack was spotted in the village of Tulungatung and immediately declared the area around it as “prohibited zone.”
Villagers near the cracked had been evacuated to safer areas and geologists were conducting further studies on the fissure. Residents have reported strange noise every time rain waters sip through the crack.
Last week, 21 people died in two landslides that struck the mountain town of Maco in Compostela Valley province.
In July, a portion of the Zamboanga City highway collapsed and geologists blamed weeks of torrential rains that eroded the soil and led to the collapse of the road.
A landslide in June in Zamboanga City also killed a pregnant mother and her child in the hillside village of Maasin during the typhoon Fengshen. (Erico Rosco)
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