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The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Filipino: Pangasiwaan ng Pilipinas sa Serbisyong Atmosperiko, Heopisiko at Astronomiko, [4] abbreviated as PAGASA, which means "hope" as in the Tagalog word pag-asa) is the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) agency of the Philippines mandated to provide protection against natural calamities ...
The groundbreaking for the DOST–PAGASA Mindanao Planetarium took place on March 15, 2019. [2] Contractor GCMG Construction was the contractor for the project, which was supposed to be completed by November 22, 2019. The Commission on Audit (COA) flagged the planetarium project due to it not being finished by that date. [3]
Since 1963, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has assigned local names to a tropical cyclone should it move into or form as a tropical depression in their area of responsibility located between 135°E and 115°E and between 5°N-25°N, even if the cyclone has had an international name assigned to it.
2017 Leyte earthquake [24] 2019 April 22 17:11 Luzon 6.1 VII 18 dead, 256 injured 2019 Luzon earthquake [25] 2019 April 23 13:37 Eastern Samar 6.5 VI 48 injured 2019 Eastern Samar earthquake [26] 2019 July 9 20:36 Cotabato 5.6 VI 1 dead, 73 injured July 2019 Cotabato earthquake [27] 2019 July 27 07:37 Batanes 6.0 VI 9 dead, 60 injured
The Philippines is a Typhoon (Tropical Cyclone)-prone country, with approximately 20 Tropical Cyclones entering its area of responsibility per year. Locally known generally as bagyo (), [3] typhoons regularly form in the Philippine Sea and less regularly, in the South China Sea, with the months of June to September being the most active, August being the month with the most activity.
The NSTA, the umbrella department for PHIVOLCS and PAGASA, became the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in 1987. The technical staff and the 12-station earthquake monitoring network was fully integrated to PHIVOLCS in 1988. PHILVOCS and the United States Geological Survey collaborated during the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Their ...
July 17, 2019: Tropical Storm Danas (Falcon) affects the top half of the country with rainfall. Typhoon Phanfone (Ursula) over Visayas in December 2019. August 5–7, 2019: Typhoon Lekima (Hanna), despite it did not made landfall, passes close to Batanes with Tropical Cyclone Signal No. 1 being raised there. Rainfall and flooding caused several ...
Typhoon Kammuri, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Tisoy, was a powerful typhoon which impacted the Philippines in early December 2019. Kammuri, which means crown or Corona Borealis in Japanese, the twenty-eighth named storm and sixteenth typhoon of the 2019 Pacific typhoon season, Kammuri developed from a tropical wave situated a couple hundred kilometers south of the Mariana Islands.