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This list of disasters in Metro Manila by death toll includes both natural and man-made disasters that took place in the general vicinity of Metro Manila in the Philippines. This list is not comprehensive in general.
The bell tower of the Manila Cathedral after the series of destructive earthquakes of July 1880. The ruins of a church after the 2013 earthquake. The table below is a tally of the ten most deadly recorded earthquakes in the Philippines since the 1600s:
3 January 1978 – 11 worshipers died after a fire broke out in a Buddhist temple in Manila. [102] 9 July 1978 – At least 11 persons were killed after a fire broke out in a theater complex in Manila. [103] 29 March 1979 – A fire in a discothèque and massage parlor in Manila killed 15 people. [104]
The incident was the worst peacetime disaster and the worst in the 20th century, [19] and the vessel was even named the Asia's Titanic. [22] MT Vector: Vector Shipping 11 0 2 MV Doña Marilyn: Sulpicio Lines: 24 October 1988 389 2 197 While sailing from Manila to Tacloban City, the vessel was caught up in Typhoon Unsang and sank. [23]
In Metro Manila the estimated hazard has a mean PGA of 0.32 g for a PoE of 10% in 50 years. The main hazard comes from shallow fault sources, such as the Marikina Valley Fault System, but there is an important contribution to the overall hazard from the Manila subduction zone to the west and the potential for strong shaking from earthquakes ...
On August 14, 2016, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council reported that about 70,000 people, or 15,665 families, were affected by the enhanced monsoon rains in the regions of Central Luzon (Region 3), Calabarzon (Region 4-A), Mimaropa (Region 4-B), Western Visayas (Region 6), the Negros Island Region, the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and the National Capital ...
Natural disasters in the Philippines (7 C) ... List of disasters in Metro Manila by death toll This page was last edited on 18 February 2022, at 18:53 (UTC). ...
The 2012 Luzon southwest monsoon floods (informally known in Tagalog as Hagupít ng Habagat, "wrath of the monsoon" and Bagsík ng Habagat, "fierceness of the monsoon", from habagat, the Filipino term for the southwest monsoon), was an eight-day period of torrential rain and thunderstorms in Luzon in the Philippines from August 1 to August 8, 2012.