About Mount Ragang
Mount Ragang can have destructive (viii) earthquakes (on average one every 50 years), with occurances at >7 Richter. When a strong earthquake occurs, damage will be slight in specially designed structures but considerable in ordinary substantial buildings with partial collapse. Heavy furniture is moved. Poorly built structures will be demolished. There is a medium occurence of periods with extreme drought. Flooding risk is very high. There is a medium-high chance of cyclones hitting Mount Ragang. Natural ocurances of landslides are very high.
Nature.
Mount Ragang has a humid (> 0.65 p/pet) climate. The land area is not cultivated, most of the natural vegetation is still intact. The landscape is mostly covered with closed to open broadleaved evergreen or semi-decidious forest. The climate is classified as a tropical wet (no dry season), , with a subtropical moist forest biozone . The soil in the area is high in nitosols, andosols (nt), soil with deep, clay-enriched lower horizon with shiny ped surfaces.
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"... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have prod ..."
Samantha Jonson
NEWS
After reading a quite amount of sources about this mountain, my fascination about Mt. Ragang grows deeper. This beautiful mountain is also known as Mt. Piapayungan or the Blue Mountain by the local people of Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao and some parts of North Cotabato.
It lies abundantly in what they call the Piapayungan Mountain Range of Lanao del Sur. The mountain soars above the sky with an enormous elevation of 2,815 m (9,236 ft) making the seventh highest mountain in the Philippines. It is also the only mountain in the list of the top ten highest which has less records. The only existing and solid evidence or record that the mountain has been summitted was recorded by Gideon Lasco of Pinoymountaineer.com. He narrated their journey on this blog post, Successful ascent of Mt. Ragang and Mt. Ragang - Images of Mindanao's Most Elusive Peak.
