Bacolod City and several local chief executives across Negros Occidental ordered their respective Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Offices on Wednesday to conduct rapid damage and needs assessment following the massive earthquake that struck Cebu late Tuesday evening.
The assessments aim to establish the integrity of structures for immediate rehabilitation, and pinpoint the extent of the quake’s impact on civilians, especially vulnerable communities and sectors.
City engineers are leading the damage assessment in Bacolod City in cooperation with barangay officials. To date, no casualties or serious infrastructure damage attributed to the quake have so far been reported in Negros Occidental.
The province registered a magnitude-5.3 earthquake in Bacolod City, magnitude-6 in Murcia, and magnitude-4 in other cities and municipalities across the Negros Island Region, based on latest bulletins released by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
