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By Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse With chili-flavored “lava ice cream” in demand and awestruck tourists packing onto viewing decks, the erupting Mayon volcano is sparking a local business boom in a region where tens of thousands of others have fled for their lives. Albay province has built its image around the picture-perfect, cone-shaped Mayon volcano whose periodic activity offers both boundless opportunity as well as enduring misery. Since Mayon began shooting out lava two weeks […]
(Eagle News)– President Rodrigo Duterte is slated to go to Albay to visit the residents affected by Mount Mayon’s recent activity. “I’ll probably take a rest for a day or two first … but I will go to Mayon,” the President said. He said he expected his plane to have difficulty landing in Legazpi City. He said it was “(not) the (ashfall) there, but the wind current that you have to worry about because it […]
(Eagle News) — The previous eight-kilometer danger zone around Mayon volcano has now been extended to nine kilometers because of the volcano’s continuous explosions and lava fountaining. This was the decision of the Albay provincial government as Mayon spewed more ash, smoke and even lava that signaled that hazardous eruption is “imminent.” More than 75,000 people have fled the danger areas surrounding Mayon, according to civil defense officials. Local officials are also thinking of […]
(Eagle News) —An official of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council gave the assurance the agency was acting swiftly to help communities affected by the Mayon volcano’s recent activity. “The National Council provides assistance through the distribution of relief items such as food, non-food items, medicines and other logistics to disaster-stricken communities…we assure the public of our urgent action to augment LGU (local government unit) capacity to provide needed relief assistance,” NDDRMC executive […]
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has hoisted an Alert Level 4 over Mt. Mayon following the volcano’s recent activity that could reportedly lead to “hazardous eruptions.” An eruption leads to the destruction of people’s properties and lives. Preparation, in short, is key to survival
(Eagle News) – More ash explosions were seen this morning, January 23, in Mayon Volcano as volcanologists warned of continuous explosions after it raised the volcano’s alert level to number 4, meaning hazardous eruption is imminent. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said that as of 8:54 a.m. Tuesday, another phreatomagmatic eruption occurred in Mt. Mayon sensing an ash column five kilometers high. This was similar to yesterday’s 5-km high ash cloud […]
LEGAZPI, Albay (Eagle News) – Karagdagang 7,000 hanggang 8,000 na pamilya ang inililikas na matapos itaas sa alert level 4 sa bulkang Mayon kasunod nang magma eruptions. Ayon kay National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) Spokesperson Romina Marasigan, inaayos ng Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council at Albay Local Government ang evacuation. Kabuuang 6,498 na pamilya o katumbas ng 24,611 katao ang nasa loob ng 27 evacuation centers. Dagdag pa ni Marasigan, […]
(Eagle News) — More families near Mayon Volcano are being facilitated for evacuation after the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised the alert level 4 warning on the volcano, meaning “hazardous eruption is imminent.” Some 7,000 to 8,000 families are targeted for evacuation after the Phivolcs warning that Monday’s latest explosions which sent ash columns several kilometers up the volcano, would endanger those living up to eight kilometers from Mayon’s radius. The Civil […]
(Eagle News) – Aabot na sa mahigit Php 6 na milyon ang donasyon na nakalap ng Provincial Social Welfare Development Office (PSWDO) ng Albay. Ayon kay Dr. Eva Grageda, officer-in-charge ng PSWDO, kabilang sa mga donasyon na kanilang tinanggap ay 150 na sako ng NFA rice, 5,500 family food packs, 11,000 piraso ng malong, 600 na kumot, 600 mats at mga gamot. Samantala, maliban sa mga donasyon na direkta nilang tinanggap, mayroon ding mga donasyon na […]
Ni Eddie Ojano Eagle News Service GUINOBATAN, Albay (Eagle News) – Dahil sa pag-aalburuto ng bulkang Mayon, suspendido na ang klase sa mga paaralan sa ilang barangay sa Guinobatan. Dahil dito problemado ngayon ang mga apektadong estudyante kung paano at saan nila maipagpapatuloy ang pagpasok sa klase. Kabilang sa mga barangay na sakop ng suspensyon ang Maipon, Tandarora, Masarawag, Maninila, Dona Tomasa, Muladbucad Pequeno at Muladbucad Grande. Suspendido rin ang klase sa mga evacuation center […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Over 8,000 families have been evacuated, following Mt. Mayon’s phreatic eruption, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said on Wednesday. According to the NDRRMC, the 8,296 families–or over 34,000 individuals—have been brought to 30 evacuation centers in Albay. The evacuees are from barangays in Camalig, Ginobatan, Ligao, Daraga, Tabaco, Malilipot, Sto. Domingo Legaspi. The NDRRCMC said some of those evacuated were outside the 7-kilometer extended danger zone, […]
LEGASPI, Albay (Eagle News) — Isinailalim na sa state of calamity ang lalawigan ng buong Albay dahil sa patuloy na paglalabas ng mga pyroclastic material ng Bulkang Mayon. Ayon kay Albay Governor Al Francis Bitchara, gagamitin ng pamahalaang panlalawigan ang 65 million pesos na calamity fund sa pagbili ng mga kinakailangang pagkain at gamot para sa mga direktang maaapektuhan sa pag-aalburuto ng bulkan. Sa kasalukuyan, mahigit sa 25,000 katao na ang nasa iba’t ibang mga […]
