Transp Res Board, Spec Rep 247, pp 36–75.Catane,S.G., Cabria, H.B., Tomarong, C.P., Saturay, R.M., Zarco, M.A.H. Accounts described by Suwa (2006) indicate that the slope had been experiencing deformation due to creep. NDCC (National Disaster Coordinating Council). Based on the duration of the telephone calls and the extent of the landslide deposit, the avalanche is estimated to have traveled with a velocity of about 100 kilometers per hour.Aerial photo of the Guinsaugon landslide in Southern Leyte. On February 17, 2006, a massive rock slide-debris avalanche occurred in the Philippine At around 10:30 on February 17, 2006, a cliff face of a ridge straddling the Among the worst of the tragedies was the burial of the local elementary school, located nearest to the mountain ridge, as the landslide occurred when school was in session and full of children. Lagmay, A.M.F. This large-scale landslide devastated the village of Guinsaugon, with a population of 1,857 (NDCC, 2006). The storm crossed the country, but damage was heaviest in southeastern Luzon, particularly around the Mayon Volcano in the Bicol region. Tengonciang, J.L.T. The downloadable products of NOAH are open data licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODC-ODbL). China offered a donation of $1The Philippine National Red Cross reported that 53 persons were rescued from the mud on February 17, but the rescue efforts had to be suspended at nightfall for safety reasons.Philippine congressman Roger Mercado of Southern Leyte claimed in a However, local government officials and eyewitnesses claimed anecdotally that the area was "well forested" and the governor's office said that deforestation from mining and logging activities were not the causal factor, although no scientific evidence was presented to back the claims. . Science guides search and rescue after the 2006 Philippine landslide. ; Shuster R.L. This large-scale landslide devastated the village of Guinsaugon, with a population of 1,857 (NDCC, 2006). (1996) – Landslide types and processes. On November 30, 2006, Durian became the fourth typhoon equivalent to a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale to strike the Philippine island of Luzon, having earlier brushed the offshore Catanduanes. The official death toll was 1,126. The 17 February 2006 landslide buried a small village: Guinsaugon in Southern Leyte, Philippine and claimed 154 victims and 990 missing. In: Turner A.K. Preliminary report on February 17, 2006 Leyte Philippines landslide. Provincial Governor Rosette Lerias said at the time the school had 246 students and seven teachers; only a child and an adult were rescued immediately after the disaster transpired. . After a brief interruption, it was followed by a second call, which started at 10:27:53 and lasted for 91 seconds before the connection was cut again. Two victims died in hospital, out of the 33 treated for injuries. et al. and Sapuay, S.E. The remaining residents of the village were not in the area at the time of the disaster. Rodolfo, A.M.P. Soils and Foundations, 45, 685–693.Makino, M., Mandanas, A.A. and Catane, S.G. 2007. Southern Leyte Mudslide Background Info The mudslide happened at exactly 10:36 am on February 16, 2006. The horrific images of loss of human life and property that emerged from this tragedy remind us of recent devastations from hurricanes, tsunamis, and earthquakes in New Orleans, the Caribbean, and Asia. A rockslide-debris avalanche occurred at 10:26 am on 17 February 2006 in Southern Leyte, Philippines (Lagmay et al., 2006). Independent reports place the volume of the deposit at 15–20 million cubic meters (Lagmay et al., 2006) and 21 million cubic meters (Araiba, in Suwa, 2006). Paguican. Baliatan, Z.P. In February 2006, a devastating rock slide and debris avalanche occurred in Guinsaugon of Leyte Island located in the Philippines where there is high rainfall and tectonically active characteristics (Kjekstad and Highland, 2009). The governors office did not explain why the soil was so unstable at the time of the slide, after millennia of stability.Experts did agree that torrential rains lasting two weeks before the mudslide were the tipping point that precipitated the disaster. Multi-satellite precipitation analysis from the NASA-JAXA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission reported that 500 millimeters of rain fell on Southern Leyte between 4 and 7 February. Catastrophic rockslide-debris avalanche at St. Bernard, Southern Leyte, Philippines. By now, we should've learned our lesson to keep it from occurring again. Twenty survivors were rescued from the front edge of the debris field within hours of the disaster, but the majority of the village’s population was believed to have been buried by the avalanche.The landslide has a planform area of 3,324,400 million square meters, a maximum width of 1.52 kilometers, and a distance of 4.1 kilometers from crown to toe.

(eds) Landslides: Investigation and Mitigation. (2006). This phase of creep motion may have developed from secondary to tertiary creep at the end of 2005 or in early 2006.Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image draped over a digital elevation map shows that Guinsaugon moved 550–600 metres down slope from its original location.

Composite studies based on the field surveys, interviews with the residents, and inspections of various data including seismological ones have been used to clarify the causes of the … (Photo by Dr. Mahar Lagmay)Three factors are suspected of having triggered the avalanche. Ong, D.F.D. An earthquake was also recorded by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) at 10:36:32.59 (PDE-W 2006), about two kilometers north of the landslide, at a depth of 35 kilometers, and with a magnitude (Mb) of 4.3 (USGS, 2006). These reported times, as verified by the mobile telephone company, are based on the standard atomic clock time used by its computer servers.Oblique aerial photo showing the relative positions of the Philippine Fault and the town of GuinsaugonBy 28 February 2006, 139 bodies had been recovered from the landslide—56 have been identified and 83 remain unidentified.

However, relief efforts were hampered by rain, chest-deep mud, roads blocked by boulders, washed-out bridges, and lack of heavy equipment. Records obtained from the F-net broadband seismograph network established and operated by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, Japan, measured the occurrence of ground motion at 10:37.