Environmental Risks, Forecasting

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Supersites (eathquake sites) of the world scientific community has a interactive map showing the areas where big earthquakes are predicted to happen. Click the image to visit Supersites:

The forecast of members of the scientific community that massive casualties will be experienced in the next big disaster that will hit the Philippines is accurate.

One of the greatest concerns is that the target of the next big one is the Philippines national capital region: Metropolitan Manila.

With a nighttime population of more than 12 million, in daytime Metro Manila has a population volume of nearly 20 million or higher during peak seasons.

Metro Manila is also home to many international agency headquarters such as the Asian Development Bank and all the home offices of foreign embassies are located in the capital region.

Too many factors can account for the exactitude and correctness of the prediction of massive casualties – not the least amongst them, the lack of state-of-the-art data and information ferreting equipment. Scientific expertise and knowhow in the use of new technology for tidal wave, weather, seismic event, volcanic eruption forecasting is not necessarily lacking in the Philippines.

However, it must be conceded that the Philippines does not have enough or adequate experience in handling satellite launch, management and earth observation operations.

To compound the problem ten-folds it is learned through the media, that intervention by interest groups in purveying vital data to the public about earthquake faults, the shameless impunity with which big companies are shunting regulations against building big structures on top of sites highly vulnerable to earthquake faults, also compound the danger of the Philippines suffering a large multitude of people getting killed during a big disaster incident involving the shaking of the Marikina West Valley Fault System.

A society that makes advanced use of geospatial information. An affluent, convenient society in which location information and geospatial information can be put to practical use anywhere, anytime, by anybody. - Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd.

 Among several other companies, the Resource Recovery Movement (RRM) finds the closest kind of affinity with Kokusai Kogyo corporation.

Of a number of organizations around the world, Kokusai Kogyo is one of those that have an enviable commitment to making geospatial data available for a larger spectrum of the human population.

This is the precisely advocacy of RRM and its corporate sponsors in the Cyberpark Group.

Ms. Sandra Wen-Hsiu Wu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kokusai (photo at left) and a member of the UNISDR, Private Sector Advisory Group or PSAG avers that:

...Kokusai Group is committed to doing everything it can of creating "green communities" in Japan and other countries around the world that face similar issues. (sic)

Both the private sector and the public sector are being encouraged through campaigns by organizations such as the Resource Recovery Movement to take just the same steps that Kokusai has treaded on from the past until today.

For a long time, Kokusai's presence will be felt all around the world for its unswerving dedication to make the planet a better place to live in.