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Last activity was the formation of Sampaloc Lake around 1350 AD +/- 100 years determined by anthropology [2] Taal eruption: 1572 to 2022: Currently on eruption since January 12, 2020. Eruptions have also destroyed numerous lakeside towns, burying them with volcanic ash or submerged them by rising lake waters displaced by the erupted material.
Killing 15 and injuring roughly 100, the earthquake damaged as many as 800 buildings throughout the southern and central parts of Mindanao.It spawned landslides in South Cotabato which flowed through the crater lake on Mount Parker, creating a widespread flood which swept homes and affected at least nine districts of the province and killed three people. [6]
Tsunami damage at Barangay Tibpuan, Lebak, Mindanao. Several fault zones in the region are capable of producing major earthquakes and destructive local tsunamis. The two major fault zones that are most dangerous are the Sulu Trench in the Sulu Sea and the Cotabato Trench, a region of subduction that crosses the Celebes Sea and the Moro Gulf in Southern Mindanao.
The US government also donated $100,000 worth of disaster equipment to the Philippine National Red Cross. USAID turned over 29 million pesos (about $560,000) worth of food and non-food items. [8] Other countries donated or pledged assistance to the Philippine government. [citation needed] China offered a donation of $1 million in cash and material.
Towns southwest of the Lanao Lake were said to have been submerged underwater for a few years due to ground displacement by a few meters in a southward direction, causing a miniature tsunami to that permanently flood the towns. The death toll from ranged from 225 to 465 according to multiple accounts, and injuries were counted near a thousand.
The 2012 Luzon southwest monsoon floods (informally known in Tagalog as Hagupít ng Habagat, "wrath of the monsoon" and Bagsík ng Habagat, "fierceness of the monsoon", from habagat, the Filipino term for the southwest monsoon), was an eight-day period of torrential rain and thunderstorms in Luzon in the Philippines from August 1 to August 8, 2012.
The Padcal tailings spills of August–September 2012 were a series of mine tailings spills from Tailings Pond 3 of the Philex Mining Corporation's Padcal mine in Benguet Province, Philippines. The incident began on August 1, 2012, with a massive release on the order of 5 million tonnes or 3 million cubic meters of water and tailings from a ...
In December 2022, a series of floods began to severely affect the provinces of Misamis Occidental and Misamis Oriental, and some parts of the southern island of Mindanao in the Philippines. The floods were caused by intense rain, which poured down on the central and southern parts of the country. [4] [5] [6] [7]