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The disaster that typhoon Pablo (Bopha) caused in New Bataan’s Barangay Andap is similar to the flooding and rockslide that brought death and destruction to Legazpi City’s Barangay Padang in 2006 at the height of typhoon Reming (Durian). Although the villages are miles apart and the disasters have 6 years in between, both are perched in a mountainside that is a natural channel for water to pass through on its way downstream during heavy rainfall events, according to the initial assessment of the National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS). They both experienced debris flow, or the cascade of rocks, debris, and boulders from the mountains. An ongoing project to make more detailed, high-resolution topographic and hazard maps remains underway.
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