LEGAZPI CITY鈥擬t. Bulusan spewed a 300-meter-high dirty white ash plume听Sunday听afternoon, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said in a bulletin.
The Phivolcs bulletin said the 鈥減hreatic鈥� or steam-driven explosion started at around听1:03 p.m.听and lasted for seven minutes with ashes drifting towards the northwest.
Eduardo Laguerta, resident volcanologist of Phivolcs based in Legazpi, described the steam-driven explosion as 鈥渓ow energy鈥� which could not even rise out of the crater of the volcano.
Raden Dimaano, head of Sorsogon Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, said some towns in the province were experiencing thin ash fall.
鈥淲e are still waiting for Phivolcs鈥� report but because of light rains, the ashfall is somehow controlled,鈥� he said.
Last June 10, the volcano spewed a 2-kilometer-high grayish ash plume that drifted towards the northwest during its听 鈥減hreatic鈥� eruption which affected 19 villages in Sorsogon. JE/rga
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