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The following is an incomplete list of mountains in the Philippines. Several of these are volcanoes , formed by subducting tectonic plates surrounding the archipelago . [ 1 ]
There are 100 volcanoes in the Philippines listed by the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program (GVP) at present, [6] of which 20 are categorized as "historical" and 59 as "Holocene". [6] The GVP lists volcanoes with historical, Holocene eruptions, or possibly older if strong signs of volcanism are still evident through thermal ...
Mount Halcon: 2,586 m 8,484 ft 6 NIR-Negros Island Region: Mount Kanlaon: 2,465 m 8,087 ft 7 V-Bicol Region: Mayon Volcano: 2,463 m 8,081 ft 8 I-Ilocandia: Mount Sicapoo: 2,360 m 7,740 ft 9 IV-A-Calabarzon: Mount Banahaw: 2,177 m 7,142 ft 10 VI-Western Visayas: Mount Madja-as: 2,117 m 6,946 ft 11 III-Central Luzon: Mount Tapulao: 2,037 m 6,683 ...
A volcano belched a plume of ash and steam into the night sky in the central Philippines in a powerful explosion that sent more than 700 people fleeing to evacuation camps. The explosion of Mount ...
Mount Apo is the highest mountain peak in the Philippines, with an elevation of 2,954 meters (9,692 ft) above sea level. A large solfataric , dormant stratovolcano , it is part of the Apo-Talomo Mountain Range of Mindanao island.
Pan de Azucar, variously known as Tampisaw Island or Tambaliza (which is also the name of one of the barangays on the island), is a populated island in the Visayan Sea in the Philippines. The island is known for Mount Pan de Azucar (Sugarloaf Mountain) a steep volcanic cone and a prominent landmark at the northern entrance of Guimaras Strait .
1991: Mount Pinatubo, Philippines. On June 15, 1991, a rumbling Mount Pinatubo grew and grew until it exploded in the biggest volcanic eruption on Earth in 100 years. Super-pressurized, gas ...
Balut Island, also known as Malulong, is a potentially active volcanic island south of the tip of Davao Occidental province in the Mindanao region, southern Philippines. At the center of the island is Balut Volcano , a fumarolic volcano with no historical eruptions.