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Project DANAS is launched by Phivolcs.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) inaugurated Project DANAS on Thursday in an effort to increase public awareness of severe catastrophes by compiling local communities’ collective experiences.

The initiative, according to Phivolcs Director Teresito Bacolcol, intends to collect people’s experiences (karanasan or danas) after previous significant earthquakes and other disasters through in-depth interviews in the local language.

“Our nation is diverse, as are the people who live here and the languages they speak. This is demonstrated by the fact that different languages have different meanings for earthquakes, such as the Tagalog word “lindol,” the Cebuano word “linog,” the Ilocano word “gingined,” and many more “At the formal launch of the project, Bacolcol noted.

He argued that it is crucial for Phivolcs to pay attention to the survivors’ accounts and take their insights into account when deciding how to communicate with the public about dangers, risks, preparation, and appropriate responses.

With this, he added, “we seek to make our disaster risk reduction and management activities inclusive and sensitive to the various socio-cultural contexts in the nation.

The initiative, he continued, is also evidence of the value of fusing the social sciences with the extremely technical discipline of geology. “Science is not carried out for its own sake. The ultimate objective should always be to enable people to make educated decisions and perform life-saving acts by using the knowledge produced by science “Bacolcol said.

For this initiative, Phivolcs has collaborated with the Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University – La Union Campus and the University of the Philippines – Visayas. According to Bacolcol, Phivolcs can study the interviews with the aid of these universities.

“We’ll aggregate these accounts or eyewitness interviews for Phivolcs so that more individuals may utilize them as references,” Bacolcol stated.

He emphasized that the goal of the collaborative endeavor is to comprehend the stories of communities affected by volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis in addition to documenting them.

The study’s findings, according to Phivolcs, will emphasize the value of utilizing regional tongues when disseminating scientific and hazardous information.

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