1:43 pm | Sunday, October 12th, 2014 Activity had appeared to quieten down but a fresh cascade this time stretching further down the slopes, has prompted concerns that an eruption may soon take place. “The first activity started on September 15 and lasted for a few days. After that, there was a lull or no summit activity, but this morning, our volcanologists spotted a lava flow,” Renato Solidum, head of Phivolcs, said in a television interview. “What is happening now is that there is very slow movement… of lava flow about 350 meters in length from the summit,” he added. Solidum warned lava flow from Mayon was usually followed by “an explosive phase of eruption” although he could not estimate when such blasts could occur. He explained magma inside the volcano was now rising to the summit slowly but added that it could accelerate, prompting quakes and small explosions and potentially causing a much larger eruption. The 2,460-meter Mayon, located about 330 kilometers southwest of Manila, has a long history of deadly eruptions. Read more: newsinfo.inquirer.net/644276/mayon-eruption-imminent-says-phivolcs#ixzz3Fvzdo0hv Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 12:49:02 +0000
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