MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) will place 100 earthquake intensity meters all over the country starting this year to enable it to take more ...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit off the coast of Balut Island in Davao Occidental on Tuesday afternoon, according to the ...

An intensity meter records and make available online, on near-real time basis, information on the severity of ground shaking due to various earthquake events. Phivolcs will not be paying for the ...

A reported intensity is the strength of an earthquake as felt and reported by people, according to Phivolcs, while instrumental intensity is measured by an intensity meter or scale. There are no ...

Felt intensity is the ground shaking actually felt and reported by the people through the Phivolcs Earthquake Intensity ... measured by the intensity meters in and around the epicentral area.

Phivolcs said. Solidum said the agency also plans to install 300 earthquake intensity meters throughout the county in the next three years. He said the sensors, which were also donated by JICA ...

Phivolcs personnel call it the Shaking Table ... while the horizontal motions represent the secondary waves. Inside the booth, an intensity meter displays the earthquake intensity being simulated.

Based on the agency’s earthquake information ... intensities are based on the ground motion detected by an intensity meter. Phivolcs indicated that the shaking was tectonic in origin and ...

“The project is important not only for Phivolcs ... earthquake affects manmade structures. There are currently 31 strong motion seismometers and five will be installed in 2016. The intensity ...

A series of earthquakes occurred offshore of Ilocos Sur in the past few days, which may possibly decrease or generate a tsunami, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said ...