Kanlaon Volcano Remains Under Alert Level 3; Short-Lived Eruptions Still Possible

Kanlaon Volcano remains under Alert Level 3; short-lived eruptions still possible

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) maintained Alert Level 3 (magmatic unrest) over Kanlaon Volcano, as it warned that short-lived explosive eruptions remain possible following its eruption on May 13.As of Friday evening, May 16, Phivolcs reported no significant increases in volcanic earthquakes or ground deformation since the eruption.It added that sulfur dioxide emissions have shown only within-average increases, …

Cadiz DRRMT sends water tanker to assist La Carlota

The Cadiz City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Team truck deployed to join flushing operations in Barangay Yubo, La Carlota City after the May 13

Due to the alert that has generated among the inhabitants of Tuxpan, Jalisco, the appearance of smoke in the area of the Tequinque Basin, geologists of the State Unit of Civil Protection and Firemen of Jalisco ruled out the birth of a volcano in that municipality. Although the inhabitants of Tuxpan, Jalisco, have observed in the Tequinque Basin what is apparently smoke on the slopes, it is really a geomorphological process, that is, it is dust t…

Muddy stream flow affected waterways in La Castellana. Mari-Andylene Quintia, resident volcanologist of PHIVOLCS at La Carlota Observatory, explained that this is caused by the pycroclastic density current or PDC emitted by Kanlaon volcano after it erupted on May 13 and the rains in the past […]