Philippines authorities began evacuating people near Mount Mayon Friday as increasing activity indicates a violent eruption is possible. Photo: Kristin Moral/AFP via Getty Images ...

The phreatic eruption generated a booming sound, rockfall, pyroclastic density currents or PDC and a 1,200 meter-tall plume that drifted to the southwest. Mayon Volcano remains at Alert Level 2.

LEGAZPI, Philippines--A gentle eruption of the Philippines’ most ... communities within a 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) radius of the Mayon volcano’s crater since volcanic activity spiked last ...

He flew to Albay on Wednesday to hand out food packs and reassure the evacuees of government help but warned that Mayon’s gentle eruption may drag on for months, keeping them away from their homes.

The organizers and municipal government of Daraga in Albay on Saturday opened the monthlong Cagsawa Festival at the iconic ...