Explosive Mount Kanlaon Eruption Ignites Grassfire

The Kanlaon Volcano connected Negros Island successful the Philippines erupted connected Tuesday, April 8, accompanied by 14 volcanic earthquakes, prompting the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) to contented a Level 3 alert.

Under specified an alert, residents wrong a six-kilometer radius of the volcano’s acme are recommended to evacuate.

According PHIVOLCS, fume from the volcano reached heights of 4,000 meters and ashfall was expected successful the adjacent cities of Barangays Cubay, San Miguel, and La Granja, and La Carlota.

A grassfire was ignited astatine the eastbound slopes of the volcano aft superheated ballistic fragments were thrown retired of the crater, PHIVOLCS said.

“Residents were besides warned of imaginable hazards specified arsenic abrupt explosive eruption, lava flow, ash fall, rockfall, lahar during dense rains, and pyroclastic flow,” wrote the Inquirer, citing PHIVOLCS. Credit: Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology via Storyful