Manila on Shaky Ground

If the Big One comes, risk firm says, it’s cataclysm

In the past 24 hours, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, or PHILVOLCS, the country has experienced 296 earthquakes with magnitude running up to 5.7, a largely typical day that appears to worry almost no one. Most of Manila’s residents greet the thought of a major quake blithely, lumping possible danger together with a l…