Mayon Volcano: In News
One of the most active volcanoes in the Philippines, Mayon, fired a dark column of ash over thousands of metres into the sky in a “moderately explosive eruption” recently.
- Mayon Volcano is an active volcano located in Albay province on Luzon Island in the Philippines.
- It is a stratovolcano, that is, it is made out of alternating strata of lava and ash and is part of the Ring of Fire in the Pacific Ocean.
- It is located on the eastern side of Luzon, beside the Philippine Trench, which is the convergent boundary where the Philippine Sea Plate is driven under the Philippine Mobile Belt.
- It is the Philippines’ most active volcano.
- It is one of the most symmetrical volcanic cones on Earth.
- Popular with climbers and campers, the volcano is the centre of Mayon Volcano National Park. UNESCO named it an official biosphere reserve in 2016.
