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MOUNT Kanlaon in Negros Island on Monday night erupted, producing a 5,000-meter plume, the <\/strong>Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology<\/strong> (Phivolcs) said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to Phivolcs, the steam-driven or phreatic explosion, which lasted for six minutes, occurred at the summit vent at 6:51 p.m. Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n As of 8 p.m., Phivolcs raised Mt. Kanlaon\u2019s alert level from Alert Level 1 (abnormal) to Alert Level 2 (increasing unrest).<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alert level 2 means \u201cthere is current unrest driven by shallow magmatic processes that could eventually lead to further explosive eruptions or even precede hazardous magmatic eruption.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Phivolcs said the \u201ceruption produced a voluminous and incandescent plume that rapidly rose to 5,000 meters or 5 kilometers above the vent and probable short pyroclastic density currents approximately two to three kilometers down the southern and southeastern slopes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The report said the eruption was preceded by a relatively strong volcano-tectonic earthquake.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to Phivolcs, there have been reports of coarse ashfall and sulfurous odors in communities on the western slopes of the volcano.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The agency is closely monitoring the volcano and any development will be relayed to all concerned stakeholders.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In an advisory, the La Castellana Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Office said it is preparing for possible escalation of the alert level of Mt. Kanlaon.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The MDRRO advised residents to wear face masks, especially those who have respiratory illnesses.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meanwhile, Canlaon City, Negros Oriental Mayor <\/strong>Jose Chubasco Cardenas ordered the evacuation of residents in barangays Masulog, Pula, Lumapao and Malaiba as well as their livestock.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The four barangays are located in the permanent danger zone.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Phivolcs said entering the four-km permanent danger zone is strictly prohibited due to increased chances of sudden and hazardous phreatic eruption.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pilots were told to avoid flying close to the volcano’s summit as sudden phreatic eruptions could be hazardous to aircrafts.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n .Kanlaon, one of the active volcanoes in the country, is located in the boundaries of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental.<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MOUNT Kanlaon in Negros Island on Monday night erupted, producing a 5,000-meter plume, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. According to Phivolcs,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6335,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282\/revisions\/6335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}