{"id":149667,"date":"2018-01-29T22:38:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T03:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=149667"},"modified":"2018-01-29T22:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T03:38:57","slug":"mayon-threat-spreads-risking-105000-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/29\/mayon-threat-spreads-risking-105000-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayon threat spreads, risking 105,000 people"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Forty-nine<\/a>
Forty-nine villages or barangays with about 105,000 people around Mayon Volcano’s permanent and extended danger zones are facing risks from the continuing unrest of the scenic but restive volcano. (Photo<\/a>: PHIVOLCS-DOST\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA —\u00a0Forty-nine villages or barangays with about\u00a0105,000 people around Mayon\u00a0Volcano’s permanent and extended danger zones are facing risks from the continuing unrest of the scenic but restive volcano.<\/p>\n

Lava flow, ashfall, pyroclastic flow, and lahar are among such hazards,\u00a0noted Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs)
\nscience research assistant Lauren Ba\u00f1es.<\/p>\n

“Those hazards can affect even villages in Mayon’s extended danger\u00a0zone (EDZ) if unrest in this volcano intensifies further,” Ba\u00f1es said.<\/p>\n

Mayon’s permanent danger zone (PDZ) covers a 6-kilometer radius measured\u00a0from the summit of the volcano.<\/p>\n

The EDZ there at present is the 2-km extension of PDZ, bringing Mayon’s\u00a0total danger zone radius to 8 km, measured from the summit.<\/p>\n

Last week, Phivolcs raised Mayon Volcano’s alert level to 4 and set\u00a0a bigger danger zone, as the agency warned of an imminent major eruption due to the volcan’s “intense unrest.”<\/p>\n

The villages at risk for Mayon Volcano’s hazards, Phivolcs said, are: Bacacay municipality’s Upper Bonga and Sogod; Camalig municipality’s Anoling,
\nCabag\u00f1an, Quirangay, Salugan, Sua, and Tumpa; Daraga municipality’s\u00a0Ba\u00f1adero, Budiao, Matnog, Mi-isi, and Salvacion; and Guinobatan
\nmunicipality’s Do\u00f1a Tomasa, Maninila, Masarawag, Muladbucad Peque\u00f1o, and Muladbucad Grande.<\/p>\n

Phivolcs added villages under threat are Legazpi City’s Barangays 50 to 54; Ligao City’s Baligang, Amtic,\u00a0Nabonton, and Tambo; Malilipot municipality’s Calbayog, Canaway, San Francisco, San Jose, San Roque, Santa Cruz, and Santa Teresa; Santo Domingo municipality’s Fidel Surtida, Lidong, San Fernando, and Santa\u00a0Misericordia; and Tabaco City’s Bantayan, Bonot, San Isidro,\u00a0Buang, Buhian, Comon, Magapo, Mariroc, Oras, Oson, and Tabiguian.<\/p>\n

Phivolcs cited 2010 National Statistics Office’s data, which estimates the total population in those areas at nearly 104,400 people at that time.<\/p>\n

In its bulletin released Monday, Phivolcs said its instruments had detected 41 volcanic earthquakes and 16 rockfall events in Mayon Volcano.<\/p>\n

Four of six tremor events in Mayon corresponded to lava fountaining\u00a0there, Phivolcs continued.<\/p>\n

“Alert Level 4 remains in effect over Mayon Volcano. The public is\u00a0strongly advised to be vigilant and desist from entering the 8.0-km
\nradius danger zone and to be additionally vigilant against pyroclastic density currents, lahars, and sediment-laden streamflows along channels draining the edifice,” Phivolcs added.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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