Japanese Ambassador Kazuhide Ishikawan (second from right) turns over the monitoring systems and simulation database to Phivolcs director Renato Solidum (second from left)
Japanese Ambassador Kazuhide Ishikawa turned over Real-time Earthquake and Tsunami Monitoring Systems and a Tsunami Simulation Database to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology Office (Phivolcs) during a ceremony on October 15 in Queson City, for the Japan-funded Project for Improvement of Equipment for Disaster Risk Management. The ceremony was also attended by the Assistant Secretary of Science and Technology Raymund Liboro.