Landslides ( Philippines )

By: Connor Burlton

Map Of Landslide Area.

Where?

• This landslide had occurred in the Napnapnan Village in Pantukan Town in Compostella Valley, Southern Mindanao, Philippines. It is one of the biggest undeveloped copper-gold mining villages/ land, studies showing potentially up to 1 trillion dollars in gold in the soil.

Why the landslide happened!

• The Landslide happened due to steep terrain, Very heavy monsoon rainfall’s, poor communities, and the gold mining stripping the land and ruined it of all its soil making the rain able to tear away the soil and create landslides.

Pictures.

Pictures.

Casualties.

• There had been 25 people reported dead from this landslide. 16 people had been reported injured, 8 people are already known to be missing, and they are saying that 160 people had been buried/missing. There has been no reports as to the cost of damage of this landslide, but reportedly had taken out a dozen shanty homes in the village.

Prevention.

• This landslide could have been prevented in really only one way. If they had not of dug away the loose soil on the side of the mountain to obtain the gold dirt, they would of not been in trouble. Reports had said that the mountain had cracks already in it from previous rainfall, and the digging away of this soil had made it worse. They could of built there houses away from the potential landslide area.

Regulations.

• http://www.voanews.com/content/philippines-gold-mining-regulations-cause-problems-for-local-prospectors/1756558.html . The government is banning small scale operations due to having unsafe practices and ways of mining. They are bringing in bigger corporations because they have safe ways of mining and cant do it safely. Regardless of these regulations the government is making there are still a large amount of illegal mining operations, which is more than likely what this operation was before it had collapsed.

Bibliography.

• http://www.voanews.com/content/philippines-gold-mining-regulations-cause-problems-for-local-prospectors/1756558.html

• http://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2012/01/05/major-landslide-in-the-

philippines-at-least-25-killed-many-more-reported-missing/ • https://www.google.ca/search?q=2012+philippines+landslide&hl=en-

CA&gbv=2&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=_11CVfnjPKixsASZioCIBQ&ved=0CAUQ_AU

• http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/05/us-philippines-landslide-idUSTRE80409820120105