Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology(PHIVOLCS)

September 2, 2019 Dear Clinton Pagunuran, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Jul 30, 2019 04:03:57 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch. Your Request You asked for NCR Digital Elevation Data and various maps (GIS shape file). Response to Request Your FOI request is approved. Our Geology Division sent an email to you today, 2 September 2019 with details as follows: "This is in relation to your letter received via FOI on 30 July 2019 and received by our office on 30 August 2019, regarding your request for: 1) DEM of NCR, and 2) Maps and figures used in the Oplan Metro Yakal Contingency Plan in editable format We would like to inform you that the products mentioned are produced by the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA). Our Institute provides all earthquake- and volcano-related hazard maps for the Philippines and these are already available and can be downloaded online via this LINK. It already includes a *.kmz file for you to be able to display the maps on a Google Earth application. We may have information that you have already accessed these data before. However, you also mentioned shapefiles of Active Faults, Liquefaction, and Earthquake-induced Landslide, and Fissures. We can provide the data to you, and should you be requesting for shapefiles of these hazards, please note that we have already sent you an automated email for processing. However, as stated in the form, we will be processing the request once we receive a signed Data User Agreement (DUA) attached in that email. You may send the said form back to us, and the data will be provided as soon as we receive and have it signed." Please note that we are only able to provide some of the information you have requested for as information is with other government office and we need a signed DUA from your end to process your request. Your right to request a review If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to DOST Secretary Fortunato T. De La Peña and email at [email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, Bartolome Bautista FOI Receiving Officer