MANILA (Xinhua): Philippine volcanologists raised on Thursday (July 1) the alert level for Taal volcano to 3 on a scale of 5, after the island volcano in Batangas province, 66km south of the national capital Manila, showed "magmatic unrest."
"At 3.16 pm local time Taal volcano main crater generated a short-lived dark phreatomagmatic plume 1 kilometer-high with no accompanying volcanic earthquake," the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said in a statement.
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