After the explosion, a cloud of ash spread thousands of meters into the sky. The administration has ordered the evacuation of nearby villages and relief work is underway.
फिलीपींस में फिर फटा कनलाओन ज्वालामुखी, 87,000 लोगों को किया गया रेस्क्यू
About 87 thousand people are being evacuated to safe places on Tuesday after a volcano erupted in the central region of the Philippines. After the eruption of the volcano, a huge plume of gas and ash was seen coming out of it and super hot lava with debris was seen flowing down the western slopes.
There were no immediate casualties in the recent eruption of the Mount Kanalon volcano on central Negros Island, but the alert level has been raised to one level that is likely to be more intense.
Philippine chief volcanologist Teresito Baccolcol and other officials said that the ash of the volcano fell into the sea more than 200 kilometers to the west, including the province of Antik. Because of the ash, the visibility was reduced and there was a health hazard.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines, at least six domestic flights and one Singapore-bound flight were canceled and two local flights were rerouted on Monday and Tuesday due to the eruption of the Kanalaon volcano.
The Office of Civil Defense said that immediate mass evacuations are underway from nearby towns and villages on the western and southern slopes of Kanalaon. It also includes the town of La Castellana in Negros Occidental, where about 47 thousand people are to be evacuated from the danger zone within a radius of six kilometers.
The city’s mayor, Rumila Mangilimutan, said that by Tuesday morning, more than six thousand people had moved to rescue centers. Also many have gone to their relatives’ house in La Castellana for a few days.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said officials were ready to provide assistance to the large number of displaced villagers and his social welfare secretary left for the affected area on Tuesday morning.
Marcos told reporters, “We are ready to help those families who have been evacuated from the six-kilometer danger zone. Government scientists are monitoring air quality due to the threat of pollution from volcanic gases, which may require the evacuation of more people from areas affected by Monday’s eruption.
Authorities have closed schools and imposed a night curfew in the most sensitive areas. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the Kanlaon volcano’s eruption for about four minutes on Monday afternoon produced a ‘pyroclastic’ density stream (a superheated stream of gas, ash, debris and rock that can incinerate anything in its path).
An alert was placed at the third-highest level of the warning system around Kanlaon on Monday, indicating the possibility of a “magmatic eruption” that could lead to a major eruption.
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