No casualties or damage were immediately reported near Mount Mayon, but authorities urged residents within 6km of the crater to evacuate.
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Philippine authorities raised the alert level for Mount Mayon to three after a blast sent ash skyward, prompting evacuation orders within six kilometers of the crater. Officials warned of increased risks from lava flows and pyroclastic density currents in the coming weeks.
- The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised the alert level from two to three on its five-point scale.
- Authorities ordered evacuations within six kilometers of the crater due to hazards like lava flows and rockfalls.
- A 3,000-meter ash column drifted southwest toward nearby population centers following the volcanic blast.
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The 2,462-metre Mayon is one of three Philippine volcanoes that have shown elevated levels of activity this year, though no major eruptions occurred. (EPA Images pic)MANILA: One of the Philippines' most active volcanoes fired a dark column of ash thousands of metres into the sky Friday in a "moderately explosive eruption" that lasted nearly six minutes, the state seismology office said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in towns and cities surrounding Mount Mayon, but the country's volcano institute raised the alert level from 2 to 3 on its 0-5 scale and called for evacuations within 6km of the crater.
The 3,000-metre (nearly 10,000 feet) ash column gradually drifted southwest onto nearby population centres, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said in a bulletin.
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