Safety advice with the source printed on it
Guides for the Philippines: typhoons, earthquakes, eruptions, floods, fire, what to pack, and who to call.
“If you’re near the shore and feel an earthquake, especially if it’s too strong, move quickly to higher grounds. Tsunamis might follow.”
Source: PHIVOLCS, Earthquake Preparedness Guide. Read 20 September 2026.
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Before, during and after
Four hazard guides, each one following the question the way it gets asked in the Philippines. Each line below is a short summary of its guide, and the guide names the agency behind every step.
- Typhoons Watch the wind signal PAGASA has raised over your province, get the go bag and the documents above the water line, and go when your barangay says go.
- Earthquakes PHIVOLCS says to duck, cover and hold. Stay inside if the building is structurally sound, move to an open area if you are outside, and go to higher ground if you are near the shore.
- Volcanic eruptions Stay out of the danger zone PHIVOLCS has drawn, and treat ashfall as the part that reaches you: cover your nose and mouth, close the house up, and get ash off the roof before it rains.
- Floods and landslides PAGASA’s flood warning levels are Flood Monitoring, Flood Alert, Flood Warning and Severe Flood Warning, and Final when flood is no longer possible. At Severe Flood Warning, PAGASA’s advice is to force evacuation.
Read these two before anything happens
An hour spent on these two is worth more than everything else on the site, because both are useless to read for the first time during the emergency they are for.
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What to put in a go bag
UNICEF Philippines' checklist, item by item, in English, with a line on each one saying what it is doing in the bag.
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Philippine emergency hotline numbers
911 and the rest of the national directory, copied from the government's own list with the date we read it.
Everything else
Home safety, fire, the guide index and the two articles kept from the old site. Sources on this site were last read 20 September 2026.