Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 14:10:32 EDT

From: Emergency Information Administrator 

Subject: Philippines: Floods  DHA-04





                      PHILIPPINES - FLOODS

                     INFORMATION REPORT NO.4

                        11 SEPTEMBER 1995



SITUATION

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1. UN RESIDENT COORDINATOR ISSUED CONSOLIDATED REPORT ON DAMAGE

CAUSED BY FLASHFLOOD WHICH HIT AREAS NEAR PARKER VOLCANO IN

MINDANAO ISLAND.



2. ON 6 SEPTEMBER, FLASHFLOOD INUNDATED 7 MUNICIPALITIES IN SOUTH

COTABATO PROVINCE AND 4 IN SULTAN KUDARAT PROVINCE.  POPULATION

AFFECTED IN TWO PROVINCES ARE:  IN SOUTH COTABATO - 15,563

PERSONS OR 3,052 FAMILIES, AND IN SULTAN KUDARAT - 8,915 PERSONS

OR 2,172 FAMILIES.  REPORTED CASUALTIES INCLUDE 48 DEAD, 7

INJURED AND 382 MISSING.



3. IN SOUTH COTABATO PROVINCE, ESTIMATED COST OF DAMAGE TO

BRIDGES, ROADS, AGRICULTURE, PRIVATE PROPERTY AND TRANSPORTATION

IS ABOUT USD 31.909 MILLION (PHP 327.2 MILLION).  DAMAGE TO 321

HOUSES WAS ALSO REPORTED.  IN SULTAN KUDARAT PROVINCE, ESTIMATED

COST OF DAMAGE TO BRIDGES, ROADS AND TRANSPORTATION IS ABOUT

USD 2.860 MILLION (PHP 72.7 MILLION).  DAMAGE TO 12,261 HA OF

AGRICULTURE AND 27 HOUSES WAS ALSO REPORTED.



NATIONAL RESPONSE

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4. IN SOUTH COTABATO PROVINCE, 2,900 PERSONS OR 467 FAMILIES WERE

EVACUATED.  IN SULTAN KUDARAT PROVINCE, 1,050 PERSONS OR 262

FAMILIES WERE EVACUATED.  RESCUE AND RELIEF OPERATIONS ARE

ON-GOING.



5. A QUICK RESPONSE TEAM DISPATCHED BY THE PHILIPPINES INSTITUTE

OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY (PHIVOLCS) IS INVESTIGATING CAUSE

OF MASSIVE DISCHARGE OF FLOOD WATERS TO LOW-LYING AREAS.



6. IN THE ABSENCE OF DEFINITE INDICATORS FOR RENEWED VOLCANIC

ACTIVITY, PHIVOLCS REITERATES THAT PARKER VOLCANO HAS NOT ENTERED

ERUPTIVE PHASE.



7. NO INTERNATIONAL APPEAL HAS BEEN ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT.



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