Welcome to Metro Manila Map Viewer

The Metro Manila Map Viewer

The Metro Manila Map Viewer is a GIS-based Internet tool and is currently being implemented as a prototype for earthquakes in Metro Manila, Philippines. The Metro Manila Map Viewer allows users to retrieve useful information and maps from datasets including hazards, transportation, public facilities, emergency services, elevation, land use/zoning, and high-resolution imagery.

The Metro Manila Map Viewer is part of the risk communication tools that are jointly being developed and endorsed by the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), and the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI) to facilitate information sharing, and to promote city stakeholders participation, ownership transfer, and a better understanding of the linkages between disaster risk reduction and development progress. Map Viewers are developed at PDC's headquarters in Maui, Hawaii, with the ultimate goal of transferring capacity to local clients.

This tool was implemented in Metro Manila as part of EMI's Cross-Cutting Capacity Development (3cd) Program (see www.earthquakesandmegacities.org and/or www.pdc.org/emi)—a long-term inter-disciplinary program envisioned to assist "megacity" governments in implementing sound disaster risk management practices. The Metro Manila Map Viewer increases awareness about public safety, is useful during emergencies, also supports post-disaster recovery processes.

The Metro Manila Map Viewer displaying an example of the Peak Ground Acceleration
for a modeled earthquake scenario. Higher education facilities are displayed. Users can select
a data set from the menu (right) to overlay and to view spatial relationships of interest.
The Tools (left) allow users to manipulate views and analyze risk in GIS format.

Intended Users

Metro Manila educators, scientists, decision makers and members of the community are using the Map Viewer to learn about hazards and their possible impacts. It increases awareness for public safety and is also useful during emergencies, and aids the recovery process.

The Metro Manila Earthquake Impact Reduction Study
MMEIRS Final Report Volume 1 Executive Summary, March 2004

Introduction

The Earthquake Impact Reduction Study of Metro Manila (MMEIRS) project was implemented from 2002 to 2004 under the collaborative efforts of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS), the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA). The product was enhanced by inputs from various stakeholders that comprised the MMEIRS Technical Working Group during the course of the study. The stakeholders included local government units, member agencies of the National Disaster Coordinating Council, and other national government agencies, utility companies, professional organizations, and academic institutions. In support of MMEIRS, the Metro Manila Council has adopted a resolution "declaring the commitment to make Metro Manila seismically safe, and establishing the mutual aid agreement among the local government units of Metro Manila in the event of disasters." The project aimed to produce a master plan for earthquake impact reduction for Metro Manila.

The project developed 18 scenario hazard (ground shaking and liquefaction) maps for the metropolis. The scenarios ranged from possible movement along the various earthquake source zones surrounding or in the metropolis including the Valley Fault System. The study also computed for the projected casualties (death and injuries) including possible disruption to lifeline facilities that may result from the three worst case scenarios.

The vision resulting from MMEIRS is for "A Safer Metropolitan Manila from Earthquake Impact." To achieve this vision, the project listed six basic goals:

1. Develop a National System Resistant to Earthquake Impacts
2. Improve Metropolitan Manila's Urban Structure Resistant to Earthquakes
3. Enhance Effective Risk Management Systems
4. Enhance Community-based Disaster Management Capacities
5. Formulate a Reconstruction System
6. Promote Research and Technology Development for Earthquakes

Goals

• To protect lives and properties in Metropolitan Manila
• To strengthen socio-economic systems
• To ensure the stability of governance in the event of a disastrous earthquake

Focus

• Formulation of an "earthquake impact reduction plan"
• Promotion of a sustainable earthquake impact reduction plan and organizational development
• Improvement of community-level disaster response capacity
• Integration and dissemination of earthquake disaster management information
• Technology transfer

Approach

• Provision of damage analysis using seismic microzonation methodology
• Application of comprehensive information technologies for the establishment of basic database for Metropolitan Manila
• Application of existing studies and research results
• Formulation of earthquake disaster management plan strengthening the vertical and horizontal synergy of inter-agency networks
• Formulation of practical community-based disaster management plan
• Recommendation of a sustainable plan supported by the Office of the President
• Promotion of technology transfers
• Emphasis on social and anthropological approaches to disaster management

Tasks

• Basic data collection and evaluation and conduct of field surveys
• Earthquake motion calculation and damage estimation
• Disaster management planning
• Community-level disaster management planning

JICA Study Team