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Mark Angelo Flores & Jhonard John Garcia

LIGTAS-AGAD Project 1: Integrating Real-Time Monitoring and Remote Sensing for Enhanced Onshore Landslide Mechanism Analysis and Forecasting in Hazard-Prone Terranes

Project 1, “LIGTAS-AGAD: Integrating real-time monitoring and remote sensing for enhanced onshore landslide mechanism analysis and forecasting in hazard-prone terranes” aims to enhance our understandi...

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Sep 30, 2025

Mark Angelo Flores

From Source Terranes to Basin Evolution (STroBE): Geologic Evolution and Paleoclimate Studies in the Northern Cagayan Valley Sub-Basin

The general objective of the project is to investigate the sediment source and depositional history of the sedimentary rocks in the northern portion of the Cagayan Valley Basin. Specifically, it seeks...

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Sep 30, 2025

Mark Angelo Flores

Assessing the Geochemical and Mineralogical Factors for Carbon Sequestration in the Balangiga River Watershed, Eastern Samar

The Balangiga River Watershed (BRW) in Eastern Samar is a relatively pristine environment bordering the Samar Island National Park (SINP). At present, several applications for mining activities are pr...

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Sep 9, 2025

Mark Angelo Flores

Balik PhD Startup Grant - Pressure-temperature-deformation-time (P-T-D-t) history and petrogenesis of Romblon metamorphic rocks: Implications for the western Philippine arc-continent collision zone

This project aims to constrain the P-T-D-t history and petrogenesis of the metamorphic rocks exposed in the Romblon island group. Specific aims include determining the field, petrographic, geochemical...

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Sep 8, 2025

Preservation of the 1973 Ragay Gulf earthquake rupture in Phil-Lidar data

Preservation of the 1973 Ragay Gulf earthquake rupture in Phil-Lidar data

The geometry of seismogenic faults and their rupture kinematics have implications for the potential size of earthquakes and the seismic hazard they pose (Scholz, 1972; Wells and Coppersmith, 1994; Wes...

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Aug 14, 2025

Leveraging InSAR for Observation and modeling of earthquake Generators (LInOG)

Leveraging InSAR for Observation and modeling of earthquake Generators (LInOG)

The project generally aims to generate models of fault deformation based InSAR observations that will help determine where and how fast faults are accumulating seismic moment (equivalent to seismic en...

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Aug 14, 2025

Imaging Crustal Thickness Variations in Central Philippines using Gravity Inversion

Imaging Crustal Thickness Variations in Central Philippines using Gravity Inversion

The research aims to investigate crustal thickness variations across Central Philippines using gravity inversion. Gravity inversion enables the removal of short-wavelength effects in crustal investiga...

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Aug 14, 2025

Reassessment of the Emplacement Mechanism of Banahaw Debris Avalanches using Hummock Morphology and Internal Structures

Reassessment of the Emplacement Mechanism of Banahaw Debris Avalanches using Hummock Morphology and Internal Structures

The main objective of study is to evaluate the previous understanding of the transport and depositional mechanisms of the Banahaw debris avalanches by taking advantage of new techniques (GIS) and new ...

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Aug 14, 2025

Rare magnitude 5.1 Palawan earthquake of 11 June 2024 in the NW Sulu Sea Basin

Rare magnitude 5.1 Palawan earthquake of 11 June 2024 in the NW Sulu Sea Basin

At 2:38 in the afternoon (Philippine Standard Time) of 11 June 2024, a magnitude Mw 5.1 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of Palawan. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIV...

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Aug 14, 2025