A STUDY from the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) in 2018 showed that 47.5 percent of all the respondents said they had not done anything to prepare themselves for a disaster within the past five years, and only 36 percent felt prepared enough.

Information could be found, with just a click of a button, thanks to digitalized documentation efforts, led by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) and the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) at https://www.phivolcs.dost.gov.ph/index.php/gisweb-hazard maps.