{"id":242003,"date":"2020-01-12T04:32:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T09:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=242003"},"modified":"2020-01-12T04:32:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T09:32:23","slug":"precautionary-evacuation-urged-as-taal-volcano-spews-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/12\/precautionary-evacuation-urged-as-taal-volcano-spews-ash\/","title":{"rendered":"Precautionary evacuation urged as Taal Volcano spews ash"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ongoing phreatic explosion at the Main Crater of Taal Volcano. Photos taken from installed IP camera monitoring the activity of Taal Volcano. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Qyd7aLvsJ\">pic.twitter.com\/9Qyd7aLvsJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PHIVOLCS-DOST (@phivolcs_dost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phivolcs_dost\/status\/1216255377718665217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; An increased steaming activity was observed in Taal Volcano on Sunday prompting the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) to raise its alert status to Level 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been raising the Alert Level (in Taal) from zero to 1 since March 2019. Today we have observed a fast escalation in the (volcanic) activity,&#8221; Phivolcs director Renato Solidum told the Philippine News Agency (PNA).<\/p>\n<p>Alert Level 3 means the volcano&#8217;s activity could lead to hazardous eruption in weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Solidum, however, clarified that spewing of ashes technically means there was an eruption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We advise the public to do precautionary evacuation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Phivolcs, an increased steaming activity in at least five spots inside the main crater has been observed on Sunday afternoon, &#8220;with the largest activity comprised by a phreatic explosion that generated a plume approximately 100 meters high&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Three &#8220;felt earthquake events&#8221; were also recorded, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The public is advised that the main crater is strictly off-limits because sudden steam explosions can occur and high concentrations of lethal volcanic gases can be released.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The northern portion of the Main Crater rim, in the vicinity of Daang Kastila Trail, can also become hazardous when fumarolic or degassing activity along existing fissures suddenly increases,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ongoing phreatic explosion at the Main Crater of Taal Volcano. Photos taken from installed IP camera monitoring the activity of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":242004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ma-cristina-arayata","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242003","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242005,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242003\/revisions\/242005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}