The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said Mayon volcano produced a small phreatic event at 8 a.m. Tuesday that lasted about 73 seconds.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said five, including four foreigners, died after Mayon volcano spewed ash on Tuesday.
After months of relative quiet, Mayon Volcano spewed ash and smoke early Tuesday, startling residents in Albay province in Bicol.
“We were starting our prayer and somebody spotted it. It was really beautiful,” Sister Mary Rafael of the Monastery of the Most Holy Redeemer, who was in Legazpi City in Albay and who saw the phreatic (steam-driven) eruption, said in an interview on dzBB radio.
She said she saw the smoke shortly after 8 a.m.
But as of 8:36 a.m., she said the “mushroom effect” had “dispersed.”
Phivolcs said that the “most destructive eruption” of Mayon on record was on Feb. 1, 1814, when it erupted with “plinian, pyroclastic flows” and “volcanic lightning and lahar.”
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