Mayon: The people constantly fleeing a Philippine volcano
Filipinos tell the BBC what it’s like being routinely displaced for weeks or months on end. …
From a hilltop observatory, volcanologist Paul Alanis looks for visual cues that could upgrade the alert level. Those alerts then determine how many people will need to be evacuated. When Level 3 was declared on 8 June, at least 13,000 people were immediately moved to shelters. Several thousands more were evacuated in the succeeding days.
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