Mayon Volcano, considered one of the most active in the Philippines has started throwing lava through crater, this causes a possible eruption in the next few days and puts people in a panic.
The authorities maintain for a month an alert level in the volcano area, southeast of the island of Luzon in the north, where some 56,000 people have been evacuated to 46 shelters.
Basically, what is happening now is a very slow moving A slow moving lava flowing 350 meters around the top.
Solidum said Mayon often passes from this not explosive phase to another explosive one and for this reason the current level of alert and they evacuated the residents of the danger zone, located 6 km around the volcano.
There will be small explosions before it has a large one, and we will see a continued expansion of the slopes of the volcano. So far this has not been seen except by continued and slow expansion, '' said Solidum.
Mayon, located on Luzon Island and about 360 kilometers southeast of Manila, is one of the most visited by tourists attracted by the beauty of the place and the perfect conical volcano.
The worst of known eruptions of this volcano occurred in 1814, when it caused 200 thousand dead and buried Cagsawa town, named since then as '' Filipino Pompeii. ''
Last year, the volcano spewed a cloud of ash and rocks that rose about 500 meters, which killed five people, including a Spanish tourist.
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