00:00Meanwhile, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, or FIVOX, on Wednesday said that the seismic equipment being used to monitor Mount Pinatubo was stolen.
00:09FIVOX says the seismic vault of the FIVOX San Jose Observation Station in Tarlac was discovered ransacked by their personnel.
00:16Among the items taken were the usual solar battery and the state-of-the-art kinometrics Quantera digitizer,
00:22which is capable of recording and converting data into usable formats of all earthquake signal data that are detected by sensitive seismic sensors connected to specialized cables.
00:33Today's thievery is the third incident for this station.
00:37Following the stealing of its solar panels in October and December of 2024,
00:41FIVOX is calling local government units and communities in and around Mount Pinatubo to help keep monitoring facilities safe from such illegal acts.
