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Volcanic cloud from the Kanlaon eruption captured by the Japan Meteorological Agency Himawari-9 Air Mass and shown using the Geo2Grid on December 9, 2024. During the June 2024 eruption, evacuations were ordered in Canlaon for five barangays near the volcano [7] and communities located along rivers flowing from the volcano, [28] [29] as well as ...
The explosion of Mount Kanlaon Monday night on Negros Island triggered sirens across Canlaon, a city of nearly 60,000 people south of the volcano. ... June 4, 2024 at 8:25 AM. ... The eruption ...
Mount Kanlaon, a 2,435m volcano, has erupted over 40 times since 1866. It last erupted in June this year, sending hundreds of villagers to emergency shelters. Another eruption in 1996 killed at ...
A vehicle negotiates a road covered with volcanic ash at Bago City, Negros Occidental province, Philippines, Dec. 10, 2024, a day after an eruption of Mount Kanlaon. / Credit: Chona Aplaon/AP
The 2,435-meter (7,988-foot) volcano, one of the country’s 24 most-active volcanoes, last erupted in June sending hundreds of villagers to emergency shelters. In 1996, three hikers were killed near the peak and several others were later rescued when Kanlaon erupted without warning, officials said.
Kanlaon, also known as Mount Kanlaon and Kanlaon Volcano (Hiligaynon: Bolkang Kanglaon; Cebuano: Bolkang Kanglaon; Filipino: Bulkang Kanlaon), is an active andesitic stratovolcano and the highest mountain on the island of Negros in the Philippines, as well as the highest peak in the Visayas, with an elevation of 2,465 m (8,087 ft) above sea level. [1]
PHIVOLCS raises Alert Level 2 over Mount Kanlaon after an eruption which prompts the evacuation of residents in Canlaon and parts of Negros Occidental. [149] [150] A state of calamity is declared in Canlaon and La Castellana, Negros Occidental on June 4. [151]
Hundreds of residents living near Mount Kanlaon were ordered to evacuate after the volcano erupted, ... June 4, 2024 at 4:44 AM. Courtesy of Dollet Demaflies/Handout/AFP/Getty Images.