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Evacuation Underway As Philippine Volcano Triggers “Magmatic Unrest”
Zubu Brothers ^ | 7-1-2021

Posted on 07/01/2021 10:07:58 AM PDT by blam

Philippine authorities have begun to evacuate thousands of people Thursday after the alert status for Taal volcano, located near capital Manila, was raised following a “magmatic intrusion.”

“At 3:16 p.m., the Taal volcano’s main crater generated a short-lived dark phreatomagmatic plume 1 km-high with no accompanying volcanic earthquake,” the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said in a statement.

LOOK: Phreatomagmatic eruption of #Taal Volcano from 3:16 PM to 3:21 PM today (July 1, 2021), as viewed from the Main Crater station. | Courtesy of @phivolcs_dost

This afternoon, the agency raised Taal’s Alert Level to 3 (magmatic unrest). Stay safe and updated! pic.twitter.com/cIEGfv8oOG

— Earth Shaker PH (@earthshakerph) July 1, 2021

The seismology agency raised the alert level for Taal from 2 to 3 after a .62 mile-high plume of gas and steam was ejected into the atmosphere.

“This means that there is a magmatic intrusion at the main crater that may further drive succeeding eruptions,” the agency warned.

The seismology agency said the towns of Agoncillo and Laurel, situated near Taal, are in possible danger.

Mark Timbal, a spokesman for the government’s disaster-response agency, said thousands of residents have already begun to evacuate from five high-risk villages. He said up to 14,000 people may have to evacuate today.

Taal erupted in January last year, displacing 380,000 people and destroyed homes, roads, farms, and vital infrastructure. It’s one of the Philippines’ more active volcanoes.

The magmatic unrest could suggest more activity at Taal is ahead.


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: magma; manila; phillipines; volcano
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To: Wuli
"I remember their. hit, World Without Love (1964). which though it was sung by Peter and Gordon was written by Paul McCartney."

Yup.

Peter's sister (Jane Asher) was Paul's girlfriend. And, Paul lived in the house with them and wrote a number of their songs.

The Asher's were upper class to McCartney and he was accepted only because of his fame.

21 posted on 07/01/2021 1:15:56 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

https://www.manilatimes.net/2021/07/01/news/watch-taal-volcano-erupts/1805340

Vid at the link. More freeze frame really, but cool.

Last paragraph is a little scary...


22 posted on 07/01/2021 1:20:29 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla

I would be gone already, Ha!


23 posted on 07/01/2021 1:22:47 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Jane had the good sense to call it quits with McCartney. She was a decent actress in her own wright and didn’t need the personal bedlam of all the Beatles hangers on, all the drugs and all McCartney’s womanizing.


24 posted on 07/01/2021 1:45:17 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: outofsalt

Crater Lake in the Pacific. I guess Guam doesn’t have these problems, since it’s a free-floating Island.


25 posted on 07/01/2021 1:47:16 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: blam

For this one, me too!


26 posted on 07/01/2021 1:49:11 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: gundog
"I guess Guam doesn’t have these problems, since it’s a free-floating Island."

It has tipping problem according to congressman Hank Johnson.

27 posted on 07/01/2021 1:51:53 PM PDT by blam
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