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AT 8AM ON FEBRUARY 1, 1814, BEGAN THE MOST

DEADLY RECORDED ERUPTION OF MT.MAYON, IN WHICH
MORE THAN 1,200 PEOPLE WERE KILLED.

• THE ERUPTION DAMAGED CAMALIG, CAGSAWA,

BUDIAO, GUINOBATAN TOWNS AND HALF OF ALBAY
PROVINCE.

• THE ERUPTION OF 1814 WAS DESCRIBED AS HAVING

PYROCLASTIC FLOWS, VOLCANIC LIGHTNING, AND
LAHAR.
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AFTER A NUMBER OF SEISMIC SHOCKS, A THICK COLUMN OF

STONES, SAND AND ASH SHOT HIGH INTO THE AIR. THE SIDES OF THE
MOUNTAIN WERE HIDDEN BY VEILS OF ASH, SMOKE AND VAPOUR. A
FIERY STREAM OF LAVA DASHED DOWN THE SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN
AND THE SKY DARKENED. THEN STONES BEGAN FALLING TO EARTH
KILLING MANY PEOPLE. EVEN HOUSES OFFERED NO PROTECTION AS
THE STONES WERE RED HOT AND SET BUILDINGS ON FIRE.

AFTER THE ERUPTION CEASED, LARGE NUMBERS OF DEAD AND

INJURED PEOPLE LAY EVERYWHERE. THE WHOLE TOWN OF
CAGSAWA WAS BURIED. JUST THE TOPS OF BUILDINGS AND
COCONUT TREES PROTRUDED FROM THE DEBRIS. THE FORMERLY
BEAUTIFUL CULTIVATED SLOPES OF MT MAYON WERE NOW JUST
COVERED WITH SAND AND ASH.
• ONE PARTICULARLY SAD INCIDENT OCCURED WHEN THE
PRIEST OF THE CHURCH IN CAGSAWA CHURCH ORDERED THE
BELLS TO BE RUNG TO WARN THE LOCAL PEOPLE OF THE
ERUPTION. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE TOOK REFUGE IN THE
CHURCH, BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE LAVA STREAM AND
ACCOMPANYING ASH SURROUNDED AND COVERED THE
CHURCH, KILLING ABOUT 200 PEOPLE INSIDE.

TODAY THE BLACKENED REMAINS OF THE CHURCH TOWER

AND OF THE PRIEST'S HOUSE AND CONVENT HOUSE STILL
REMAIN TO RECALL THIS POIGNANT EVENT. THE SURVIVORS
REBUILT THEIR CHURCH AND A NEW SETTLEMENT NEARBY AT
DARAGA.
• MAYON DEMONSTRATED A
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AND MOST VIOLENT TYPE OF
ERUPTION, THAT PARTLY
DESTROYED THE HISTORICAL

THE CHURCH IS ABOUT 10 KM (6

MILES) AWAY FROM THE
VOLCANO.
• PLINIAN-TYPE ERUPTIONS CAN
PRODUCE

MILES AWAY FROM A VOLCANO.

THIS IS ALSO THE TYPE OF
EXPLOSION THAT
EXHIBITED IN ITS MOST
DESTRUCTIVE BLAST, ONE OF
THE WORST NATURAL
DISASTERS IN THE COUNTRY, IN
• ONE INCIDENT THAT CAUSED CASUALTIES WAS WHEN A TYPHOON
OCCURRED AFTER MAYON VOLCANO EXPLODED IN 2006. A TOTAL
OF INCLUDING THE
PROVINCE OF ALBAY THAT YEAR. CASUALTIES WERE CAUSED BY THE
FLOOD FROM TYPHOON REMING (INTERNATIONAL NAME DURIAN)

• BECAUSE OF THE DISASTER IN 2006, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF

ALBAY HAS

,“ ALBAY’S GOV. JOEY SALCEDA

SAID.

PHIVOLCS, geology.com, inquirer.net

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