Day and night shots of volcanic eruption and evacuation
(1 Jul 2001) Mayon Volcano 1. Long shot of Mayon volcano, tilt up to billowing ash 2. Various long shots of volcano showing billowing clouds of ash 3. Man herding cattle with ash in background 4. Group of villagers on hillside 5. SOUNDBITE: (Tagalog) Benjamin Esquivel, Village Chief "We want to evacuate now because Mayon's eruption is too much. We are very scared. They are already getting their things, but we are concerned about other things we own like our cows, carabaos and chickens. If we leave without anyone looking after them, we might lose them." 6. Man marking seismograph at volcano monitoring station 7. Close up his hand marking seismograph 8. Close up chart 9. SOUNDBITE: (Tagalog) Eduardo Laguerta, Volcanologist "We just raised it to alert level five because there is now a hazardous eruption and there is pyroclastic flow." Legazpi 10. Various day shots of people at evacuation centre 11. Close up baby lying on floor 12. Various of people at centre 13. SOUNDBITE: (Tagalog) Lorna Azon, Evacuee "We had to run here on foot because we couldn't find any transportation." (Q: why did you run?) "Because we could hear the Mayon volcano making a noise and the lava flow was getting huge." Mayon Volcano 14. Night shot of erupting volcano (small hours of 24 June) 15. Various night shots of people evacuating 16. Various night shots of erupting volcano 17. Various dawn shots of smoking volcano and smouldering lava on hillside STORYLINE: A simmering volcano erupted spectacularly in the central Philippines on Sunday, jetting fountains of lava, spewing car-sized rocks and shaking the ground more than 12 kilometers (eight miles) away. Thousands of residents were ordered to evacuate. One massive explosion from the Mayon volcano spewed ash 15 kilometers (more than nine miles) high, with continuous columns of 600 meters (yards) and more, officials said. Visibility was expected to drop to zero by evening in five nearby communities as an enormous mushroom cloud settled. At least 7,000 villagers living within eight kilometers (five miles) fled their homes Sunday, said Jason Aragon, a civil defense officer in charge of the evacuation. At least 3,000 others in the path of the lava were ordered out as well, but some were lingering to watch the spectacle. Depending on lava flow, as many as 60,000 could be forced to evacuate to nearby Legazpi, Aragon said, adding that an elderly woman died of a heart attack during the evacuation but no other injuries were reported. Eduardo Laguerta, resident vulcanologist, said a lava dome about 27 to 30 meters (yards) wide had formed on the crater. Collapsed domes have continuously been expelling rocks, ash and gases of 300-600 degrees Celsius (570-1,100 F.) down the volcano's slopes at speeds of 50 to 100 kph (30-60 mph), he said. After the 2,474-meter (8,118-foot) volcano shook the region late Saturday with a series of explosions and began spewing lava - warning signs of a major eruption - authorities raised the alert from 4 to the highest level of 5 Sunday, which means an eruption is in progress with fast-moving lava flows. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
