Greater Metro Manila Hazard and Exposure Mapping (GMMA READY)

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The models put a magnitude 7.2 West Valley Fault earthquake at over 37,000 fatalities. Each local government got an average of 87 maps in October 2013, then updating them was its own problem.

Outcome🎯 Succeeded

Evidence🏛️ Official

what does this mean?

The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →

Run byOffice of Civil Defence and the national disaster council with the collaborative science agencies, UNDP and Geoscience Australia

Scale🗺️ Regional

FundingAustralian aid channelled through UNDP

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 9 more in Manila · 🗺️ GIS & cadastre guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects

Philippine civil-defence and science agencies — the volcanology, weather, mines and mapping bureaus — worked with Geoscience Australia and UNDP from 2010 to map nine hazards across Greater Metro Manila: 17 Metro Manila local governments plus seven in Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal. LiDAR surveys and a building-level exposure database fed flood, earthquake and severe-wind risk models. In October 2013 each local government received an average of 87 maps, also posted on the national geoportal, and in 2015 the data underpinned the metro's earthquake contingency plan. It was a handover, though, not a live service: updating and applying it fell to each city.

Completed 📅 2010–2015

📊 Impact

The project's own summary report models over 37,000 fatalities, 605,000 injuries and almost 2.5 trillion pesos in losses for a magnitude 7.2 West Valley Fault earthquake across Greater Metro Manila.

🎓 Lesson

Donor-funded hazard mapping ends on a delivery date. The clearest proof anyone used this data is the metro-wide earthquake contingency plan built on it two years later.

📡 Data & IoT GIS & cadastre Flood resilience Open data Safety & security

Sources

↗ Australian Embassy Manila — risk maps launch (media release, 17 Oct 2013)Handover of an average of 87 maps to each of the 24 local governments in Greater Metro Manila; the contents of the exposure database; and public release via the national geoportal from 17 October 2013.

↗ Australian Embassy Manila — risk analysis for ready, safe, resilient communities (speech, 17 Oct 2013)Geographic scope (17 Metro Manila local governments plus seven in Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal), the nine hazards mapped, the three-year delivery, and the partner list including the MMDA and the University of the Philippines.

↗ Australian Embassy Manila — launch of the metro earthquake contingency plan (18 Dec 2015)The documented downstream user: the Metro Manila earthquake contingency plan was developed under this project on the updated West Valley Fault System atlas, with multi-hazard maps handed to 17 cities and four provinces.

↗ PHIVOLCS — Greater Metro Manila risk analysis project summary reportSource of the magnitude 7.2 scenario figures quoted in the impact field, plus the LiDAR and exposure-database methodology. Hosted on the volcanology institute's hazard-map server; direct fetch returned 503, and the carrying sentence was confirmed identically on two independent searches. These are the project's own modelled figures, not an independent estimate.

↗ UNDP Evaluation Resource Centre — terminal evaluation recordConfirms the project's full title and that an independent terminal evaluation was commissioned and completed on 18 June 2016. The evaluation PDF could not be parsed, so no finding from it is claimed here.

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🇹🇿 Ramani Huria Community Flood Mapping · Dar es Salaam Two ways to map risk: Dar's volunteers surveyed flood-prone wards themselves; Manila's 24 councils were handed 87 maps each by donors. 🇹🇷 Earthquake Early Warning & Seismic Monitoring Network · Istanbul Same fault-line problem, two answers: Istanbul instrumented it live from 2001; Greater Manila modelled a M7.2 scenario and handed it over. 🇵🇭 EFCOS: Metro Manila's Flood Telemetry and Floodway Gates · Manila The live counterpart to the maps: EFCOS has telemetered the same Pasig-Marikina basin since 1993 and is still running.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Greater Metro Manila Hazard and Exposure Mapping (GMMA READY)” — Manila, Philippines. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/manila-gmma-risk-mapping/ (last verified 2026-07-26). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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