Public, LGUs urged: Use updated hazard maps

With a series of typhoons causing widespread devastation across the country, a disaster scientist from the University of the Philippines has urged local government units and the general public to utilize updated maps showing hazards from different disasters.

- JANVIC MATEO

Mahar Lagmay, executive director of the UP Resilience Institute, said the hazard maps developed under Project NOAH (Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards) are available at noah.up.edu.ph.

"These are very detailed maps, even barangay level or street level, you can see (the hazards)," he said during an interview with "Storycon" on One News yesterday.

"Know your neighborhood, click the place where you are in... and you will see the flood hazard maps, the landslide hazard maps and the storm surge hazard maps," he added.