| MAP | 6.1 | 2010/01/27 18:49:33 | 13.684 | 125.440 | 24.7 | PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION |
LEGAZPI CITY—Mayon Volcano shook at least 29 times on Thursday, its highest recorded seismic activity this week and indicating it remained active, scientists said Friday.
Volcanologists were continuing to monitor the mountain for quakes and gas emissions in case it was ready to erupt, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.
The agency said seismic instruments had been detecting low- and high-frequency harmonic quakes, indicating magma was forming and climbing up the volcano’s vent.
Instruments had recorded 44 earthquakes that have rocked the volcano since Dec. 1, resident volcanologist Ed Laguerta said.
He said the volcano continued to disgorge sulfur dioxide, and that it had spat out 710 tons of the gas in the past 24 hours. The volcano had been spitting out 592 tons and up to 1,303 tons of sulfur dioxide in the past three days, Laguerta said.
Alert level 2 remains hoisted over Mayon volcano, meaning the six-kilometer permanent danger zone and the seven-kilometer extended danger zone are off limits to human activity.
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Mayon Volcano, also known as Mount Mayon, is an active stratovolcano in the province of Albay, in the Bicol Region, on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines.
Renowned as the "Perfect Cone" because of its almost perfectly conical shape, Mayon is situated 15 kilometres northwest of Legazpi City.
| MAP | 6.0 | 2009/11/28 18:10:24 | 5.406 | 126.451 | 74.8 | MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES |
Earthquake Details | Magnitude | 6.0 |
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| Location | 5.406°N, 126.451°E |
| Depth | 74.8 km (46.5 miles) |
| Region | MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES |
| Distances | 160 km (100 miles) ESE of General Santos, Mindanao, Philippines 205 km (130 miles) SSE of Davao, Mindanao, Philippines 1185 km (730 miles) SSE of MANILA, Philippines 2535 km (1570 miles) ENE of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia |
10-27-09 -Legazpi City, Albay, Philippines
or a feared collapse of a portion of Mayon's crater, which holds an estimated 200,000 cubic feet of rocks.
Typhoon Lupit, packing winds of 108 miles (175 kilometres) per hour and gusts of up to 130 mph (210 kph), was not expected to make landfall before Thursday, giving officials time to organise food supplies and issue landslide and flood warnings. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
MANILA - October 20, 2009 - PHILIPPIINE authorities applied the lessons from recent deadly storms on Monday by stocking up on food and clothes early while moving residents out of harm's way as a powerful typhoon threatened the country's rain-soaked northeast.
Typhoon Lupit, packing winds of 108 miles (175 kilometres) per hour and gusts of up to 130 mph (210 kph), was not expected to make landfall before Thursday, giving officials time to organise food supplies and issue landslide and flood warnings.
The government was moving fast to prevent any loss of life after back-to-back storms on Sept 26 and Oct 3 killed more than 850 people. 'These days we no longer have a problem convincing residents to evacuate,' said Loreto Espineli, police chief in Benguet province where 300 people died.
Hundreds of families living in danger zones - low-lying areas, near cliffs and mountain slopes - were still in evacuation centers or staying with relatives since Typhoon Parma damaged their homes early this month. They will ride out the latest typhoon in shelters, Mr Espineli said.
'In most houses, one male is left behind just to look after their belongings, and when the typhoon is already near, we will go house-to-house to evacuate everyone,' he said.
Village heads were using megaphones to warn about the impending typhoon, and sirens will be sounded once it makes landfall, Mr Espineli told The Associated Press, adding: 'We will force them to leave if they don't want to,' he said. -- AP
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| MAP | 6.7 | 2009/10/07 21:41:15 | 4.043 | 122.584 | 582.8 | CELEBES SEA |
| Time (UTC) | Region | Type | To: | Details | |
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| 1 | 07 Oct 2009 22:17 | Vanuatu Islands | Advisory Statement | Haw | html, text |
| 1 | 07 Oct 2009 22:16 | Vanuatu Islands | Expanding Regional Warning | Pac | html, text |
| 2 | 07 Oct 2009 21:51 | Celebes Sea | Information Statement | Haw | html, text |
| 2 | 07 Oct 2009 21:50 | Celebes Sea | Information Bulletin | Pac | html, tex |
There was no "destructive tsunami threat" from the tremor, which hit shortly before 7 p.m., local time, in the Philippines, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.
The epicenter was located about 62 miles west southwest of Cotabato City at a depth of 390 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
| MAP | 6.6 | 2009/10/04 10:58:01 | 6.721 | 123.480 | 630.5 | MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES |
Flood victims wait in the street for relief goods after flood water subsides big trucks to enter the area Monday, Sept. 28, 2009 in suburban Cainta, east of Manila, Philippines. Weary victims of a tropical storm that unleashed worst flooding in more than a decades begun cleaning up their damaged homes as rescue workers plucked more dead bodies from muddy floodwaters. (AP Photo/ Pat Roque)
Residents place the remains of their belongings outside their house as they return to their homes after a storm in suburban Marikina city, east of Manila, Philippines, Monday, Sept. 28, 2009. Many Filipinos tried to rebuild their lives Monday after saving little more than the clothes they wore in a tropical storm that prompted the capital's worst flooding in more than four decades. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Motorists drive by vehicles lined up along a road after flash floods caused by Typhoon Ondoy hit Provident Village in Marikina City, Metro Manila September 27, 2009. The Philippines appealed for international aid to help tens of thousands marooned by flashfloods, and apologised for the delays in rescue efforts to avoid potential political fallout from the crisis. REUTERS/John Javellana (PHILIPPINES DISASTER SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT)
A Filipino boy is carried to safety through floodwaters brought by Tropical Storm Ketsana in the Quezon City suburb of Manila. At least 73 people have been killed and more than a quarter of a million displaced after the heaviest rain in more than four decades plunged the Philippine capital into turmoil, officials said. (AFP/Jay Directo)
Commuters wade through waist-deep floodwaters on Buendia, Makati following heavy rains spawned by tropical storm 'Ondoy' Saturday. AP-Bullit Marquez
