THE Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (DoST-Phivolcs) will inaugurate today, Feb. 27, the Ibajay Seismic Station located inside the Aklan State University’s Ibajay campus. Phivolcs, in a statement, said it aims to expand the Philippine Seismic Network by establishing additional earthquake monitoring stations located strategically all over the country. The Ibajay station will particularly benefit Aklan province and Panay Island as a whole, which is transected and bounded by active earthquake generators. Among the strongest tremors recorded in the island were the magnitude 7.2 in December 1621 that changed the course of Aklan River, and a magnitude 8.1 in 1948, also referred to as the Lady Caycay earthquake, considered one of the biggest earthquakes in the Philippines that damaged numerous historical churches in Panay Island.

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