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The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Filipino: Pangasiwaan ng Pilipinas sa Serbisyong Atmosperiko, Heopisiko at Astronomiko, [4] abbreviated as PAGASA, which means "hope" as in the Tagalog word pag-asa) is the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) agency of the Philippines mandated to provide protection against natural calamities ...
The NSTA, the umbrella department for PHIVOLCS and PAGASA, became the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in 1987. The technical staff and the 12-station earthquake monitoring network was fully integrated to PHIVOLCS in 1988. PHILVOCS and the United States Geological Survey collaborated during the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Their ...
Within the advisory the following information will be provided: the name of the volcano, the country/region, location and summit elevation of the volcano, the source of the information, e.g. satellite or pilot observation, details of the eruption including time of day in UTC and date of the eruption, details of the ash cloud including the ...
The final eruptions in the creation of Banks Peninsula in New Zealand occurred about 9 million years ago. A major eruption of Gran Canaria took place around 14 million years ago. Approximately 23.03 million years BP, the Neogene period and Miocene epoch begin. Cerro Guacha, Bolivia; 5.6–5.8 Ma (Guacha ignimbrite). [61]
This was the first time PAGASA retired a typhoon name afterwards. July 9, 1964: Tropical Storm Cora (Huaning) nears Samar before dissipating. Storm warnings were issued in southeastern Luzon with Cora 100 km (60 mi) east of Samar, with forecasts projecting stormy conditions in the region and in other islands in the east-central Philippines. [4]
The volcano had several smaller eruptions later that day. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] [ 8 ] On July 4, PHIVOLCS reported Taal Volcano's highest sulfur dioxide emission on record. [ 33 ] By July 7, the volcano had a short-lived phreatomagmatic eruption occurred in the Main Crater at 5:18 a.m. local time and generated a grayish plume that rose 300 meters high ...
Typhoon Durian, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Reming, was a deadly tropical cyclone that wreaked havoc in the Philippines and later crossed the Malay Peninsula in late November 2006, causing massive loss of life when mudflows from the Mayon Volcano buried many villages.
An eruption on the Red Sea island killed at least 7 soldiers and spewed lava and ash hundreds of metres into the air. [107] 1 Raoul Island [108] Kermadec Islands, New Zealand 2006 1 An eruption on 17 March killed conservation worker Mark Kearney, who was measuring the water temperature of Green Lake. [109] 3 Santa Ana [110] El Salvador 2005 2