{"id":146104,"date":"2018-01-14T20:15:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T01:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=146104"},"modified":"2018-01-14T20:15:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T01:15:54","slug":"thousands-evacuated-as-phivolcs-raises-alert-level-over-mayon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/14\/thousands-evacuated-as-phivolcs-raises-alert-level-over-mayon\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands evacuated as Phivolcs raises alert level over Mayon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"col-sm-9\">\n<div class=\"page-content\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_26206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26206\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Mayon-Volcano-Tomas-Tam-Wikipedia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26206\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Mayon-Volcano-Tomas-Tam-Wikipedia.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Mayon Volcano (Tomas Tam \/ Wikipedia)\" width=\"800\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Mayon-Volcano-Tomas-Tam-Wikipedia.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Mayon-Volcano-Tomas-Tam-Wikipedia-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Mayon Volcano (Tomas Tam \/ Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>LEGAZPI CITY<\/strong> \u2014 More than 3,000 residents living inside Mt. Mayon\u2019s 6-km radius permanent danger zone (PDZ) started evacuating as early as Saturday evening until Sunday morning as the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) raised the volcano&#8217;s alert level 1 to alert level 2 shortly after midnight Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Albay Governor Al Francis Bichara said there would be no exemption or extension of time for stubborn and defiant residents who would not go on voluntary evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>In an advisory, Bichara reiterated the evacuation of residents inside and within the periphery of the 6-km PDZ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Strictly no farming and orchid picking inside the 6-km PDZ, residents within the slope of the volcano experiencing heavy ashfall should take precautionary measure against possible roof collapsed due to accumulated heavy ash and rain,&#8221; the advisory said.<\/p>\n<p>Phivolcs resident volcanologist Ed Laguerta said the &#8220;no man&#8217;s land&#8221; zone should have long been free from any human activity.<\/p>\n<p>For Sunday, Phivolcs recorded successive phreatic eruption at 8:49 a.m. Ashfall has been reported at the west and southwest slopes and another eruption at 10:50 a.m. that lasted for five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Another eruption occurred later around 11:43 a.m. &#8211; it lasted approximately 15 minutes based on seismic record.<\/p>\n<p>LGUs with barangays within 6-km PDZ convened their respective Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Councils to discuss proactive actions to be taken by these local government units in case the situation escalates.\u00a0<strong><em>(PNA)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-3\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEGAZPI CITY \u2014 More than 3,000 residents living inside Mt. Mayon\u2019s 6-km radius permanent danger zone (PDZ) started evacuating as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":26206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[43120,43117,43118,43119],"class_list":["post-146104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-albay-governor-al-francis-bichara","tag-mt-mayon","tag-permanent-danger-zone-pdz","tag-philippine-institute-of-volcanology-and-seismology-phivolcs","mauthors-connie-calipay","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}