MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has detected 51 earthquakes in its monitoring of the Taal Volcano in the past 24 hours and retained alert level 2 on one of the country’s most active volcanoes.
According to Phivolcs’ latest bulletin on Wednesday morning, 41 of the recorded shaking are “episodes of volcanic tremor having durations of one to four minutes.”
“Activity at the Main Crater consisted of weak emission of steam-laden plumes from fumarolic vents that rose 5 meters high,” it added.
Phivolcs also said temperature highs of 71.8 degree Celsius and pH of 1.59 were measured from the main crater lake on March 4 and Febr…
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