Seismic Accelerograph Philippines Buyer's Guide

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY  EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION NO. :  2  PHIVOLCS Bldg, C.P. Garcia Avenue, U.P.- Diliman, Quezon City, PHILIPPINES Tel.: 426-1468  Fax: 927-1087 Date/Time: 26 Feb 2018 - 05:39:16 PM Location: 13.34°N, 121.56°E - 032 km S 69° W of Boac (Marinduque) Depth of Focus (Km): 018 Origin: TECTONIC Magnitude: Ms 5.0 Description: EPICENTRAL MAP Reported Intensities: Intensity V - Boac, Marinduque Intensity IV - Batangas City Intensity III - Lipa City and Malvar, Batangas Instrumental Intensity: Intensity I - Guinayangan, Quezon and Tagaytay City Expecting Damage: NO Expecting Aftershocks: YES Issued On: 26 Feb 2018 - 06:35 PM Prepared by: GCP/AGSR/KLVR/MTM/LSV IMPORTANT  This will be the only bulletin issued unless additional information     becomes available

(Fourth of a Series) "Word-of-mouth is a force of nature." - John Cooper Clarke According to the Nielsen Global Trust In Advertising Survey, 92% of people trust recommendations from friends. Most buyers are faced with the dilemma of choosing the ideal seismic accelerograph when the need for them to buy comes. The strangeness and general lack of knowledge on the nature of the equipment itself poses as a brick wall as to where actually will they start their procurement process. The internet may be one immediate source that any buyer will readily think of. It will openly provide an immediate list of potential suppliers with their corresponding product features showcased. This will seem to be enough a source if you are only after contact details. The problem in search ranking is that it does not in any way guarantee the safest and wisest choice. In using the web search, the first in ranking may be the last, and the last in ranking may be the first in terms of pr

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY  EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION NO. :  3  PHIVOLCS Bldg, C.P. Garcia Avenue, U.P.- Diliman, Quezon City, PHILIPPINES Tel.: 426-1468  Fax: 927-1087 Date/Time: 24 Feb 2018 - 07:02:21 PM Location: 19.71°N, 120.34°E - 128 km N 68° W of Calayan (Cagayan) Depth of Focus (Km): 032 Origin: TECTONIC Magnitude: Ms 5.4 Expecting Damage: NO Expecting Aftershocks: NO Issued On: 25 February 2018 - 03:07 PM Prepared by: KRV/DNC/LRT

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE OF VOLCANOLOGY AND SEISMOLOGY  EARTHQUAKE INFORMATION NO. :  3 PHIVOLCS Bldg, C.P. Garcia Avenue, U.P.- Diliman, Quezon City, PHILIPPINES Tel.: 426-1468  Fax: 927-1087 Date/Time                    : 14 Feb 2018 - 01:00:50 AM Location                       : 11.27°N, 124.55°E - 009 km N 11° W of Kananga (Leyte) Depth of Focus (Km)   : 008 Origin                           : TECTONIC Magnitude                   :  Ms 4.3 Reported Intensities     : Intensity IV- Capoocan , Palompon, Carigara and Kananga Leyte Intensity III - Ormoc City and Calubian, Leyte Intensity II - Cebu City and Tacloban City Instrumental Intensities: Intensity III - Ormoc City Intensity II - Cebu City; Catbalogan City; Naval ,Biliran Intensity I - Palo, Leyte; Borongan City Expecting Damage         : NO Expecting Aftershocks  : NO Issued On                      : 14 February 2018 - 04:24 PM Prepared by                  :

(Third of a series) As discussed in the previous article, this blog aims to reduce buyer's procurement risk and maximize overall value in purchasing seismic accelerographs considering the high cost and the 10-year guaranteed maintenance period clause of the DPWH IRR requirement. This hopes to educate or supplement the buyer’s existing knowledge on this not so common building equipment. In the previous article, a highly-recommended list of documentations was provided to ideally require potential suppliers to submit before entertaining any request for product presentations. This is if you want to be on the safe side. You may add or remove documents that you may wish as you may find it pertinent to do so depending on your respective degrees of adventurism. The first 4 documentations, Registration Certificate from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for sole proprietorship, Copy of Mayor’s permit issued by the city or munici