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Phivolcs warned the public against a possible magmatic eruption of the Kanlaon Volcano, saying that state volcanologists recorded the highest level of sulfur dioxide from the volcano since 2009.

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Katrina Domingo

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<div><ivs-player data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-vid="3068374"></ivs-player></div><script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MANILA — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Wednesday warned the public against a possible magmatic eruption of the Kanlaon Volcano, saying that state volcanologists recorded the highest level of sulfur dioxide from the volcano since 2009.</span></div><div><br/></div><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- text-size-adjust:100%;box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.3;letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Kanlaon&#x27;s daily average emission of sulphur dioxide almost tripled to 9,985 tonnes on Tuesday.</p><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Ito na ang pinakamataas na na-record natin instrumentally simula noong nagsusukat tayo ng volcanic gas sa Kanlaon simula noong 2009,” said <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Phivolcs Volcano Monitoring and Eruption Prediction Division chief Mariton Bornas.</span> </span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Dahil mataas ang monitoring parameters natin, medyo anomalous po talaga ang mga ito… Tumataas po talaga ang tsansa na magkaroon tayo ng magmatic eruption,” she <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">told state television PTV.</span> .</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Kanlaon volcano’s last magmatic eruption was in 1902, the Phivolcs official said.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Dati po mga pawang phreatic o steam-driven eruptions lamang,” she said.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Ngayon lang po tayo magkakaroon ng magmatic eruption kung sakali,” she added.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">State volcanologists could not predict when exactly the volcano would erupt, Bornas said.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Hindi po natin masasabi sa ngayon kung ano yung oras, araw o linggo o buwan kung kailan puputok ang bulkan,” she said.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Kailangan araw-araw nating inaanalisa at ini-evaluate lalo sa isang bulkan tulad ng Kanlaon volcano na matagal pong hindi pumuputok ng magma,” she added.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Phivolcs urged local government units near the rumbling volcano to be on alert and ensure that no individual was in the permanent danger zone.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Kapag nagkaroon tayo ng matinding pag-ulan… malamang magkakaroon po tayo ng lahar na sumasabay sa pagputok ng bulkan dahil mabilis na natra-transform at inaanod ang mga abo ng ulan,” Bornas said.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">She also reminded residents near Mt. Kanlaon to wear face masks if they smell the sulfur dioxide’s foul odor.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pregnant women, elderly, persons with comorbidities and infants should be more cautious against inhaling the volcano’s emissions.</span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><strong>HUNDREDS FLEE </strong></span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Some 300 residents of villages within 4 kilometers of the Kanlaon volcano crater were evacuated on Tuesday as a precaution, the local government of nearby Canlaon City said.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The evacuees have taken temporary shelter at schools and community centers away from the volcano, city information officer Edna Lhou Masicampo told AFP on Wednesday.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">&quot;People from villages near the foot of the volcano have been complaining about the strong smell of sulfur,&quot; Masicampo said, adding most residents are farmers.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Classes were suspended and some tourist spots in the city of around 60,000 people were closed on Wednesday due to the volcano warning.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rising more than 2,400 meters above sea level on the central island of Negros, Kanlaon is one of 24 active volcanoes in the Philippines.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It has erupted 15 times in the past nine years.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Three hikers were killed in August 1996 due to ash ejection from Kanlaon.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The state volcanology agency raised the alert level for the volcano in June from one to two on a zero-to-five scale, warning more explosive eruptions were possible.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Philippines is located in the seismically active Pacific &quot;Ring of Fire&quot;, which contains more than half the world&#x27;s volcanoes.</span></div><div><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><strong>– With a report from Agence France-Presse</strong></span></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

<p>Phivolcs warned the public against a possible magmatic eruption of the Kanlaon Volcano, saying that state volcanologists recorded the highest level of sulfur dioxide from the volcano since 2009.</p>

‘First time since 1902’: Phivolcs warns of possible magmatic eruption in Mt. Kanlaon

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‘First time since 1902’: Phivolcs warns of possible magmatic eruption in Mt. Kanlaon

Katrina Domingo,

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Published September 11, 2024 03:39 PM PHT

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