But the driver went on, saying, “Parang naniniwala na tuloy ako na ito na ang Big One.” (I’m beginning to believe that it is the Big One already.) That, too, was an event being regularly conducted by the government in earnest anticipation of the Big One. The Chuzon Supermarket collapse verifies this admission. In this regard, Veronica Files reports: “Within an epoch of 1,400 years, a total of four big tremblors hit the country as result of the movement of the Marikina West Valley Fault. And the intervals of that large-scale movements have been every 400-600 years…)Experts, says Veronica Files, believe the Philippines is ripe for the Big One.

Source: Manila Times June 23, 2019 16:07 UTC