A minor phreatic eruption occurred at the summit crater of Taal Volcano on Monday, October 13, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). In an advisory, Phivolcs said the short-lived steam-driven activity, which occurred at around 11:42 a.m., produced plumes...
Alert Level 1 remains in effect despite a “minor phreatomagmatic eruption” recorded by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Saturday, Oct. 5. Taal Volcano in Batangas / Ali Vicoy / Manila Bulletin / file photo In an advisory, Phivolcs stated that the eruption at...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) have coordinated with the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) to help evacuate residents in Batangas who were displaced by Taal Volcano’s eruption, officials disclosed on Wednesday, March 30. Lt. Gen. Erickson Gloria, vice...
The Covid-19 pandemic is seen as an additional risk to nearly 3,000 residents in Batangas who were crammed in only 12 evacuation centers after the explosion of Taal Volcano, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Sunday, March 27. Thick smoke billows from Taal...
(DSWD) Most persons displaced by the Taal eruption in January 2020 have returned to their homes but 1,057 families are still waiting for their permanent relocation, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said on Friday, Feb. 4. Based on the latest report of the DSWD Field Office in...
Typhoon relief operations have nothing to do with the upcoming elections because the Office of the Vice President (OVP) has always been present in every calamity, Vice President Leni Robredo said on Sunday, Dec. 26. BACK RIDER – Vice President Leni Robredo back rides with Dinagat Islands...
• When the ashfall covered her neighborhood, she thought things would get better soon, and then the pandemic came • From a volunteer assisting evacuees from towns affected by Taal Volcano’s eruption, she moved to the medical frontlines where she worked as a radiologic technologist • In...
The first quarter of 2020 was undoubtedly a difficult chapter for many Filipinos. After the eruption of Taal Volcano on January 12, 2020, it was followed by a lockdown almost two months later caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The quarantine protocols kept the public from leaving their homes,...
The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) bared on Monday, July 12, the deployment of locally made air quality monitors to communities affected by Taal’s unrest in provinces of Batangas and...
The threat posed by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has become an additional burden to thousands of people in Batangas who fled their homes following the phreatomagmatic (magma and steam-driven) eruption of Taal Volcano. Residents of Laurel, Batangas seek temporary shelter at Ticub...
A lot of people become farmers in retirement. One of them is Thelma Murillo, a retiree who is now a full-time farmer after working in the corporate world for more than 30 years. Murillo shares that her fondness for farming arose from childhood. “I was exposed to planting at an early age...
