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Landslide in the Philippines
MANILA - A huge landslide on the Island of Leyte on the west point of the Islands of the Philippines has caused at least two hundred deaths and 1,500 people are missing, according to the Red Cross.
The local authorities have only officially announced a total of 23 dead. Some 500 houses and a primary school have been buried under the the mud which, after two weeks of continious rain, came from a mountainous escarpment..
"It was as if the mountain had exploded and that it had completely collapsed.", said Dario Libatan, one of the survivors, to Radio Manille DZMM. "There is not a house left standing".
Rosette Lerias, the governor of Leyte Province, said to the Radio DZBB that it was feared that 500 houses and a primary school full of pupils were buried in Ginsahugan, a village which has approximately 2.500 inhabitant. "The ground was soaked with water because of the rains", said Lerias. At the last count, 53 people have been rescued. Senator Richard Gordon, the Dircector of the Red Cross in the Philippines, said that it seems as if the whole village had been buried by the Island of Leyte, causing 200 deaths and 1.500 missing. "This is our estimate as there has been no official body count", he said in a telephone call to the Associated Press from Geneva. "We are organising the rescue operation. This region is rather unfortunately famous for landslides.".
Two other villages have also been affected and about 3000 people have been evcauted to a state building. According to the Ambassador of the United States, the American Army are sending a ship which will bring aid. In November 1991, almost 6000 people were found dead on the Island of Leyte as a result of floods and landslides caused by a tropical storm.
| Type of Event: | Landslides |
| Location of Event: | St Bernard, the Philippines |
| Date of Charter Activation: | 17/02/2006 |
| Charter Requestor: | United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) |
| Project Management: | ESA |
Products
JERS-1 SAR image of Leyte Island
Copyright: JAXA 1996. Image processing, map created 24/02/2006 by JAXA JAXA contribution to Charter call 114 .
Information about the Product
Acquired: 02/02/1996 Pre-landslide image acquired by the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) aboard the Japan Earth Resources Satellite-1 Fuyo-1 (JERS-1), for comparison with image acquired by PALSAR aboard the Daichi (ALOS).
Source: JERS-1 (Fuyo-1) SAR
Philippines Landslide Elevation Map
Copyright: USGS, 2005; DLR 2005; GLCF 2005 Image processing, map created 17/02/2006 by DLR in the framework of GMES RESPOND.
Information about the Product
Acquired: --
Source: Digital elevation model: SRTM C-band: USGS 2005; SRTM X-band: DLR 2005; Landsat: GLCF Elevation map of landslide affected area and surroundings.
Guinsaugon Overview Map
Copyright: USGS 2000 Image processing, map created 17/02/2006 by UNOSAT in the framework of GMES RESPOND.
Information about the Product
Acquired: 20/08/2000 Landsat image of Southern Leyte Province, pre-disaster overview map of potentially affected area St Bernard. Note: Archived imagery.
Source: Landsat 7, ETM+, 15m resolution 20/08/2000 Landsat image of Southern Leyte Province, pre-disaster overview map of potentially affected area St Bernard. Note: Archived imagery.
SAR-PALSAR colour composite image of Leyte Island
Copyright: JAXA 1996, 2006. Image processing, map created 24/02/2006 by JAXA JAXA contribution to Charter call 114
Information about the Product
Acquired: 24/02/2006, 02/02/1996 Colour composite image (red: PALSAR, green and blue: SAR) of Leyte Island. Red colour is stronger on the slope, which is explained by some parts of the slope having been eroded by the landslide. The image shows that there are at least three huge landslides on the slope
Source: ALOS PALSAR, JERS-1 SAR
SAR-PALSAR northwest view of Leyte Island
Copyright: JAXA 1996, 2006. Image processing, map created 24/02/2006 by JAXA JAXA contribution to Charter call 114 .
Information about the Product
Acquired: 24/02/2006, 02/02/1996 Leyte Island observed from the northwest. The yellow dots indicate a disaster-stricken area. Complete analysis from JAXA .
Source: ALOS PALSAR, JERS-1 SAR
Philippines Landslide Predisaster Zoom
Copyright: CNES 2003, JAXA 2006, CSA 2006, ESA 2006 Image processing, map created 23/02/2006, updated 02/03/2006 by DLR in the framework of GMES RESPOND.
Information about the Product
Acquired: 01/06/2003, 20/02/2006, 22/02/2006, 24/02/2006 DLR Satellite map: Overview of the landslide area (Background SPOT5 5m archive data of 01/06/2003). The landslide area was derived from Radarsat data of 22/02/06 and Envisat ASAR data of 24/02/06, and partially from ALOS AVNIR-2 data of 20/02/06.
Source: Spot 5, Alos AVNIR, Radarsat, Envisat ASAR , 5 m resolution
Philippines Landslide Predisaster
Copyright: CNES 2003, JAXA 2006, CSA 2006, ESA 2006 Image processing, map created 23/02/2006, updated 02/03/2006 by DLR in the framework of GMES RESPOND.
Information about the Product
Acquired: 01/06/2003, 20/02/2006, 22/02/2006, 24/02/2006 DLR Satellite map: Overview of the landslide area (Background SPOT5 5m archive data of 01/06/2003). The landslide area was derived from Radarsat data of 22/02/06 and Envisat ASAR data of 24/02/06, and partially from ALOS AVNIR-2 data of 20/02/06.
Source: Spot 5, Alos AVNIR, Radarsat, Envisat ASAR , 5 m resolution
ALOS PALSAR image of Leyte Island
Copyright: JAXA 2006. Image processing, map created 24/02/2006 by JAXA JAXA contribution to Charter call 114 .
Information about the Product
Acquired: 24/02/2006 Post-landslide image acquired by the PALSAR instrument aboard the Daichi (ALOS) satellite, for comparison with image acquired by JERS-1 SAR in 1996.
Source: ALOS (Daichi) PALSAR
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