Manila- Government scientists are saying that a Volcano on the Philippines Bicol peninsula may erupt within days in a large scale explosion as sulfur emissions per day have been doubling in volume.
The most recent report says Sulfur emissions have reached over 7000 tons per day from the near perfect cone Volcano that looms over some twenty towns and three small and one large city in Albay province.
Disaster officails have already evacuated more than 39,000 people from the area who live within 8kilometers of mountains base.
Lava flows and ash buildup on the mountain has already begun to fill small valleys and gullies up to four kilometers away from the crater at the summit of the mountain.
Local officials and National government police and troops are working to make sure as many residents leave the area as possible. In some portions on the lowland plains many residents remember massive mud and lahar flows that burried towns and villages in pryoclastic debris some three years ago.
Any sign of sustain rainfall is a signal for people to go to evacuation areas as the steep mountain slopes can create massive flash floods of lahar and volcanic mudflows which can rage down slopes carrying with them boulders and the wet cement like ‘Lahar flows’ that can destroy almost any structure in the path of the fast flowing debris.
VIDEO posted by local residents of Lava flow from mouth of Mt. Mayon. Disaster and Civil defense officials say that: As of 8:00 AM 21 December 2009, a total of 9,217 families or 44,394 persons have been evacuated to the 24 designated evacuation centers:
