Video: Philippines' Mayon Volcano Erupts, Ash Plumes Rise To 3-Km High
Mount Mayon in the Philippines erupted on Friday, sending a 3-km high ash plume into the sky and prompting authorities to raise the alert level. Officials have called for evacuations within a six-kilometer radius due to risks of lava flows and volcanic hazards.
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Volcanic activity in the Philippines poses a recurring threat to public safety and infrastructure in the region.
One of the Philippines' most active volcanoes fired a dark column of ash thousands of metres into the sky Friday in a "moderately explosive eruption" that lasted nearly six minutes, the state seismology office said.There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in towns and cities surrounding Mount Mayon, but the country's volcano institute raised the alert level from 2 to 3 on its 0-5 scale and called for evacuations within six kilometres (3.7 miles) of the crater.The 3,000-metre (nearly 10,000 feet) ash column gradually drifted southwest onto nearby population centres, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said in a bulletin."Mayon is in a new phase of magmatic eruption, with increased chances of lava flows and hazardous PDCs (pyroclastic density currents)...
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