Manila: The small volcano near the Philippine capital suffered steam and ash troubleshooting into the sky in a short explosion Thursday, pushing the warning rate to be raised due to increased risk in the nearest villages.
Government experts say magmatic ingredients come into contact with water in the main crater of the volcano Taal in Batangas Province, establishes an explosion that is driven by steam without a volcanic earthquake that accompanies it.
They said it was not clear whether volcanic riots could cause full eruption.
“Only one explosive event, too early to say, ” Renato Solidum from the Philippine Volcanology Institute and Seismology told a press conference.
The agency raised alarm with a 1,020 foot (311 meters), one of the smallest in the world of volcanoes, up to one third From the five-step warning system, which means that “magma is near or on the surface, and activity can cause a dangerous eruption in a few weeks.
” Warning rate of 5, which means the eruption that threatens the life that can endanger the community, ongoing.
Officials reminded people to stay away from a small island in a beautiful lake where Taal was and considered a permanent danger zone along with a number of lake edge villages nearby.
Taal erupted in January last year, displaced hundreds of thousands of people and sent a cloud of ash to Manila, about 65 kilometers north, where the main airport was temporarily closed.
The Philippines is located along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an area that is vulnerable to the earthquake and volcanic eruption.
The volcano is inactive, Mount Pinatubo, the North Manila erupted in 1991 in what was considered one of the biggest volcanic eruptions From the 20th century, killing hundreds of people.