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Mayon (Central Bikol: Bulkan Mayon; Tagalog: Bulkang Mayon, IPA:), also known as Mount Mayon and Mayon Volcano is an active stratovolcano in the province of Albay in Bicol, Philippines. A popular tourist spot, it is renowned for its "perfect cone" because of its symmetric conical shape , and is regarded as sacred in Philippine mythology .
It was formally inaugurated on October 30, 1992, and is the third largest regional branch of the National Museum. It houses a collection of photographs of the volcanic eruptions of Mount Mayon as well as various geological and archeological exhibits. [6]
1979 eruption of Mount Marapi [32] 79 Mount Mayon: 2 Philippines: 1993 [16] 70 Nyiragongo: 1 Democratic Republic of the Congo: 1977 [33] 70~ Kolumbo: 4 Greece: 1650 [34] 69 Semeru: 4 Indonesia: 2021 2021 Semeru eruption: 64 Mount Merapi: 2 Indonesia: 1994 [35] 63 Mount Ontake: 3 Japan: 2014 2014 Mount Ontake eruption: 58 Sakurajima: 4 Japan ...
Lava cascaded down the slopes of the Mayon volcano in the Philippines during a gentle eruption on Monday, 12 June. Thousands of residents have been evacuated as a precaution in case the eruption ...
Mount Mayon, a volcano in Albay province in the coconut-growing central Bicol region, has been erupting since Saturday and the number of people fleeing their homes had more than doubled on Tuesday ...
More than 13,000 people have left the mostly poor farming communities within a 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) radius of Mayon Volcano’s crater in mandatory evacuations since volcanic activity increased ...
This eruption was the largest in at least 1,300 years (after the hypothesized eruption causing the volcanic winter of 536); its effect on the climate may have been exacerbated by the 1814 eruption of Mayon in the Philippines. The significant amount of volcanic ash and gases released into the atmosphere blocked sunlight, leading to global cooling.
A gentle eruption of the Philippines’ most active volcano that has forced nearly 18,000 people to flee to emergency shelters could last for months and create a protracted crisis, officials said ...