raised the warning status of Mayon to alert level 2 due to the increasing number of rockfall events that indicate “increasing unrest” or the possibility of hazardous eruptions.
She said village officials were instructed to monitor their respective areas, especially the entry and exit points of the volcano. She said around 13,000 residents in high-risk areas from the boundary of the danger zone to a 9-km radius in the villages of Mabinit, Bogña, Matanag, Buyoan and Padang would be the first to be evacuated if the situation worsened.Paul Karson Alanis, a resident volcanologist at Phivolcs’ Mayon Volcano Observatory Station here, said the increase in rockfall events around the volcano was caused by “a shallow pressure at the lava dome.
In its Tuesday bulletin, Phivolcs said they recorded 74 rockfall events, lasting from one to four minutes, based on seismic and visual observations in the past 24-hour monitoring period.ADVERTISEMENT Alanis said materials from the rockfalls could possibly affect the southeast portion of the volcano, including the upland villages of Legazpi and the towns of Camalig, Daraga, and Santo Domingo.The agency also monitored moderate degassing from the summit crater that produced steam-laden plumes drifting to the west-southwest portion, while sulfur dioxide emissions were last measured at an average of 208 tons per day on Monday.
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