About 100 residents of a village near Bulusan volcano fled from a mudflow late yesterday. Ash and boulders were emitted from recent eruptions of the volcano and were washed down the mountain after heavy rains. Nearly 2,000 people have been evacuated to school buildings in Irosin and the nearby towns of Casiguran and Juban since [...]
Eruptions of Bulusan Volcano has forced the evacuation of 900 residents. A major eruption could affect the towns of Bulusan, Barcelona, Casiguran, Juban, Irosin, and Gubat and endanger up to 80,000 people. Currently there is a lack of volcanic earthquakes and low levels of sulphur dioxide being emitted, which indicates a lack of magma intrusion [...]
Two emergency workers have been trapped in an underground bunker after an eruption from Merapi volcano on Wednesday. The bunkers are usually equipped with water and food and emergency supplies of oxygen. There workers were initially speaking to rescuers via mobile phone, but contact has been lost possibly due to lack of battery power. Soldiers [...]
Merapi volcano has been placed on level 4 alert less than a day after the level was reduced to level 3. This follows an eruption today which caused 1000 people to flee from the volcano. Most of those who fled three villages on the mountain’s southern slopes had returned home earlier Wednesday after spending [...]
Bulusan Volcano erupted ash to a height of 1km above the crater today. Monitoring of the volcano by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) indicates magma is rising to the surface. Casiguran town, on Bulusan’s northern slopes, was declared under a state of calamity on Friday after ash damaged houses, crops and forced [...]
Continuous pyroclastic flows lasting as long as 12 minutes were observed at Merapi volcano today. Maximum runout distances were 5km. After the large event, further pyroclastic flows were occurring every 5 minutes, but the runout distances were less. This is an increase in activity at Merapi. Over the past two days 18,000 people have [...]
Ngauruhoe volcano in New Zealand has been raised from zero to level 1 alert (on a scale of 0-5) after a series of earthquakes have been recorded under the mountain. The low frequency earthquakes are at a shallow depth of 4km and may indicate magma is moving under the volcano. Climbing to the crater has [...]