Mayon mobilization on

[grabehbebe]

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To ensure the safety of the residents around the Mt. Mayon that suspectedly may errupt anytime, Palace has directed all the disaster related agencies and most especailly the NDCC with LGU's to be on top of all disaster preparedness team.

It has been reportred that there are still residents staying near the Volcano and does not evacuated for there are no notices of evacuation, Palace reminds them not to go near the 6 km radius danger zone around it to abide by the contingency measures being implemented by the authorities. They said that they have to ensure that affected residents are in secure area until the experts declared it safe to go back.

Hope that the people there just follow the disaster-preparedness team....We don't want another Mt. Pinatubo tragedy that took lots of lives and livelihood.

More at: http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN2006071769464.html

[craz_beautiful_ava]

bisan unsaon gahe jud ug ulo ang tao..

bisan unsa buyag dili patuo..

and if somebeody dies from the eruption of the volcano, hey blame the people in government..

hope they will realize that volcanoes are dangerous..

[wak_wak]

di sad ta ka blame nila kay they are use to Mayon, cge lang naa eruption pero di major jud, then wala pud sila kauunon if mu lakaw sila, kay naa man ila mga farm didto..

kompyansa pud mga taw.. pero im mabuthan sila unta di lang sila mu basol sa govement..

[iloveyou4ever]

Gahe jud ang mga ulo sa pinoy. Let them do what they want. Anyway, sila ra man ang affected ana.

[tolstoi]

let's just pray nga dili pareha ka grabe sa Pinatubo ang eruption nga naaabot ang dust sa Europe..

[craz_beautiful_ava]

prayer ra jud ang ma offer nato sa mga tao who live near mt. mayon as of now..

pray ta nga dili lang jud siya mubuto ron..

[baron]

Today's news reported that Mayon Volcano continue to flow with lava. They might as well ask the nearby residents to help them save their lives by cooperating with the NDCC and other concerned government agencies instead of risking their lives out there near the volcano.

Prevention is better than any other cure.

[grabehbebe]

IF ERUPTION IMMINENT

Farmers to be ‘forcibly’ evicted from Mayon danger zone

LEGAZPI CITY -- A disaster official said on Wednesday that farmers still within the seven-kilometer (4.2 mile) danger zone declared around the crater of restive Mayon Volcano in Albay province would be “forcibly” removed from the area if and when volcanologists determine that an explosive eruption is imminent.

"We are worried about the people who remain in the permanent danger zone. There are livestock in there as well," said regional disaster coordinating council official Angel Capili after surveying Mayon from the air early Wednesday.

Rescue officials on Wednesday warned farmers to leave the fertile slopes of the volcano as it spewed lava for a fifth straight day amid fears of a major eruption.

The farmers work on the lower slopes of the cone-shaped, 2,462-meter (8,077-foot) central Philippines mountain thought at risk of an explosive eruption and whose lava flow has lengthened to about three kilometers (1.8 miles).

Capili did not estimate the number of people who remain within the danger zone.
No evacuations have been ordered outside the zone, but volcanologist Ed Laguerta told Agence France-Presse an explosive eruption could threaten the lives or properties of up to 70,000 people, including residents on the outskirts of Legazpi city.

Mayon's mild eruption continued at dawn Wednesday, marked by a fiery shower of lava fragments that fell up to four kilometers (2.4 miles) below the crater.

"Seismic activity apparently resumed to high levels," suggesting lava extrusion and rock falls, the government's seismology institute said in its latest advisory.

"At this stage Mayon continues its mild eruption with little or no explosions," it said.
"The public however is reminded that explosions are still very possible and the probability of life-threatening pyroclastic flows resulting from an explosive eruption remains high."
These flows refer to superheated dust and rocks that travel down a volcano's flanks at great speeds during an explosive eruption.

Mayon, about 300 kilometers (176 miles) southeast of Manila, is one of 22 active volcanoes in the Philippines.
It has erupted 47 times in recorded history, including in 1814, when it buried the town of Cagsawa killing an estimated 1,000 residents. Mayon's most recent major eruption was in 2001.

at: http://newsinfo.inq7.net/breakingnew...ticle_id=10657

[grabehbebe]

Checkpoints around Mayon

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?...s06_aug03_2006

LEGAZPI CITY—Officials dispatched police and military men to various checkpoints yesterday to make sure no one entered the 6-km permanent-danger zone around Mayon Volcano.

Scientists said advancing lava and molten rocks measuring 20 meters high and 50 meters long had tumbled down and almost reached the danger zone.

“The lava pile is now as high as a four-story building at the foot of the volcano,” said Ricardo Dy, 73, the grand old man of the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council and who has climbed Mt. Mayon 600 times.
Dy started climbing the volcano when he was 12 and reached the summit in 1953 when he was 18.

City Mayor Noel Rosal said he had declared the areas near the danger zone in Mabinit, Matanag, Buyuan and Bonga as off limits to all and ordered the police and military to put up checkpoints there.

He said the disaster council had designated authorized viewing areas to ensure that no harm came to local and foreign visitors watching Mt. Mayon’s eruptions.

The designated authorized viewing areas include Lignon Hill, Legazpi Boulevard, Mayon International Hotel, Daraga Church, Cagsawa Ruins, and Tahao Road.

Seventy-seven farmers living at the foot of the mountain were killed while tending their crops when Mayon erupted in 1993.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said Mt. Mayon’s gas ejections had fallen to 7,050 tons a day, but this rate was still way above normal and indicated fresh magma was entering the volcano’s vent.

Scientist said the volcano had disgorged some 18 million cubic meters of molten rocks since it started its “mild” eruptions on July 14. It was jolted by 450 tremors generated by flying rocks and incandescent lava fragments tumbling down its slopes.

Alert Level 3 is still up, meaning explosive eruptions may take place in days or weeks. Mar Arguelles

[grabehbebe]

3 ‘mini-hospitals’ from US to attend to Mayon evacuees

Published on page A3 of the August 16, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
THREE “mini-hospitals” donated by the United States will be set up in the province of Albay to service about 44,000 residents displaced by Mayon volcano’s restiveness.

Anthony Golez, deputy administrator of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD), said the mobile hospitals will be brought in from Manila within the week.

“They will serve as the center of all medical relief efforts in the area,” he said.
At the same time, between 150 and 200 doctors from the Armed Forces Reserve Command will be deployed to the area to treat the increasing number of evacuees taken ill.

The OCD said local relief officials would have to “decongest” the evacuation centers soon.

more at: http://newsinfo.inq7.net/inquirerhea...ticle_id=15516