Overall Orange alert Volcanic eruption for Mayon
in Philippines

Event summary

ORANGE alert: The Mayon Volcanic eruption is unlikely to require external humanitarian assistance based on the exposed population and coping capacity.

GDACS ID VO 510
Name: Mayon (273030)
Lat/Lon: 13.26 , 123.69
Event Date: 23 Jan 2018 UTC
Exposed Population 30km: 4990000 people within 100km
Exposed Population 100km: No people affected
Max Volc. Explosivity Index VEI:
Population Exposure Index PEI:
Inserted at: 24 Jan 2018 10:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score: 4.2 (Philippines)

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Latest media headlines

ERUPTION VIDÉO. Le volcan philippin en éruption crache d'immenses font.. 1/25/2018 5:47:00 PM.

Mayon volcano erupts for the second straight day Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018 as seen from Legazpi city, Albay province, southeast of Manila, Philippines. The Philippines' most active volcano ejected a huge column of lava fragments, ash and smoke
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Mayon is still getting fired up, seismologists warn 1/25/2018 11:35:00 AM.

Rescue workers have evacuated more than 70,000 people from around the erupting Mayon volcano in the northeastern Philippines, but scientists have warned that magma is still building up under the ground and gas and lava emissions could conti
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Philippines : spectaculaire éruption du volcan Mayon 1/25/2018 6:55:00 AM.

Entré en éruption il y a deux semaines, le volcan Mayon crache toujours de la lave, tandis que des nuages géants de cendre sortent du cratère. Des ... Nous sommes heureux de vous compter parmi nos fidèles lecteurs. L’accès à l’intégralit
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VIDEO - Philippines : l'éruption d'un volcan fait fuir les habitants m.. 1/24/2018 11:16:00 PM.

Plus de 70.000 habitants de la région, un chiffre qui a quasiment doublé depuis trois jours, se retrouvent dorénavant entassés dans des écoles ou d'autres bâtiments publics, selon les autorités locales. Le volcan Mayon est entré en activité
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (33), (2), INGV (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2), JSR (1),