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BY RANIE AZUE
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BACOLOD City – Monitors recorded a relatively low number of 24-hour seismic earthquakes at Mount Kanlaon over the weekend.
Around 1,217 low-frequency earthquakes at the volcano were recorded as of Dec. 15.
But these dropped to 149 seismic earthquakes during the weekend, according to Provincial Disaster Management Program Division head Zeaphard Gerhart Caelian.
Caelian cited the latest Volcano Bulletin released by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
Contrary to what has been circulating on social media, Phivolcs did not raise the alert level at Kanlaon from Level 2 to Level 3, Caelian clarified.
Alert Level 2 remains at Kanlaon despite the increases in seismic activities, including the spewing of ashes in surrounding localities, he said.
Caelian reminded the public to strictly follow the “no entry policy” within the 4-kilometer radius from Kanlaon – the “permanent danger zone” – due to the continued degassing activity at the volcano.
He also advised local disaster management offices at the foot of Kanlaon, particularly in the cities of La Carlota and Bago and the municipalities of La Castellana and Moises Padilla, to be on alert.
Some 1,007 volcanic earthquakes were recorded in the last 24 hours as of last Thursday.
They were accompanied by moderate emission of white steam-laden plumes, which reached a 300-meter peak from the crater before drifting southwest, according to a previous Phivolcs bulletin.
At the time Kanlaon also emitted an average of 687 tons of sulfur dioxide on Dec. 13, when Phivolcs recorded 578 volcanic earthquakes with continued spewing of ash./PN
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