Mount Kanlaon

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A recent emission from Kanlaon Volcano produced a grayish plume that rose approximately 200 meters above the summit crater before drifting north.

About Mount Kanlaon

• It is an active stratovolcano located in the Philippines. 
• It is the tallest mountain on Negros Island and the highest peak in the Visayas region, standing about 2,465 meters (8,087 feet) above sea level.  
• It is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
• It is dotted with fissure-controlled pyroclastic cones and craters, many of which are filled by lakes. 
• The summit contains a broad elongated northern caldera with a crater lake and a smaller, but higher, historically active crater to the south.  
• The base of Kanlaon covers an area of 30 km x 14 km. 
• It is underlain by tropical volcanic materials composed of sheeted lava flows, lahar deposits, airfall tephra, and apron pyroclastic materials.
• It is biologically diverse; and home to a number of species of flora and fauna.
• The slopes are also headwater catchments of major river systems on the entire Negros Island.
• Volcanic Activity:
  • It has erupted more than 30 times since 1819. 
  • Most of its eruptions are phreatic, which means they are caused by steam and produce small to medium amounts of ash. 
  • This ash usually falls around the volcano.

News: REUT

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