FRENCH LIVING IN THE PHILIPPINES

Un an après le puissant tremblement de terre qui a frappé l’île de Bohol dans les Visayas, les reconstructions de certaines églises et basiliques, datant de la période coloniale espagnole, vont pouvoir commencer.  Si certaines vont être restaurées, d’autres devront être reconstruites. Malheureusement, certains monuments réduits à l’état de poussières de corail, sont a tout jamais perdus. C’est le cas de l’église de Maribojoc, de laquelle ne subsiste que la statue du ‘’Christ Roi’’. “I can accept the idea that maybe a few of these churches might just be left as ruins, never to be rebuilt,”Bishop Leonardo Medroso, head of the Diocese of Tagbilaran, said. “But others are going to be restored.” It has been almost a year since the so-called Great Eastern Bohol Earthquake damaged many churches in Medroso’s diocese and already he is overseeing the construction of alternative churches beside the ruins of what were once considered jewels of Spanish missionary architectu...

La terre tremble de manière inexpliquée à Cebu ! Le maire s’inquiète et demande des explications à Philvocs. Ces dernières années, par deux fois la ville de Cebu a fait l'expérience de séismes, dont le plus violent survenu le 6 février 2012 est encore dans tous les esprits. Celui du 16 octobre 2013, bien que fortement ressentit à Cebu, a surtout frappé l'île de Bohol. WITHIN two weeks, the Cebu City Command Control Center (C3) monitored an average of 25 tremors a day. These became so frequent that Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak wrote Director Renato Solidum last Sept. 3 to ask what the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) thought of the events. In his letter, Tumulak requested an investigation and an explanation, “for us to understand and be relieved from this apprehension that something bad is happening.” Phivolcs assigned a seismic intensity meter to the C3, allowing it to monitor daily seismic activity since it began oper...

Heureusement Haiyan a épargné Bohol ! Les personnes qui vivent sous des tentes depuis le tremblement de terre du 15 octobre 2013, auraient eu quelques difficultés à se protéger contre des vents de 300 kilomètres heure et plus. D'autres, comme Félix, deviennent fatalistes et se reposent dans leurs hamacs. A 73-year-old resident of the mountain barangay of Anonang has learned to ignore the aftershocks. “Naanad na ko (I’m used to it),” Felix Jeneza told Sun.Star Cebu, while he rested on a hammock. It has been a week since the 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook the province, displaced families, destroyed houses, bridges, roads and centuries-old churches, and left nearly 200 dead. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), Bohol is a seismically-active area. Latest discovery “Instrumental monitoring of earthquakes for the past century has detected many small to moderate magnitude earthquakes in Bohol Island. There is at least ...