Mount Kanlaon : Eruption
A dramatic eruption of Mount Kanlaon, one of the Philippines’ most active volcanoes, sent a towering ash plume 4,000 meters (2.5 miles) into the sky recently.
- It is a stratovolcano in the north-central part of the island of Negros., Philippines.
- It is one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines and part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.
- The volcano comprises a number of pyroclastic cones and craters.
- The summit of Kanlaon contains a broad, elongated northern caldera with a crater lake and a smaller, but higher, historically active crater to the south.
- It is underlain by tropical volcanic materials composed of sheeted lava flows, lahar deposits, airfall tephra, and apron pyroclastic materials.
- It is biologically diverse; and home to a number of species of flora and fauna.
- The slopes are also headwater catchments of major river systems on the entire Negros Island.
- Historical eruptions, recorded since 1866, have typically consisted of phreatic explosions of small-to-moderate size that produce minor ashfalls near the volcano.
