Hong Kong University Students' Union (HKUSU) Exposure Trip : Philippines 香港大學學生會 藍帽子 周游列國 : 「尋找菲律賓的故事」

One member of the HKUSU Delegation would like to see a volcano. Apart from seeing the volcano Mt. Pinatubo in Central Luzon during the flight, the following is the Mayon Volcano:

Our newspaper Hong Kong Standard reported from Legaspi on 8 March 2000 that "Day turns into night as Mayon ash rains down". Scientists said walls of lava deposits on Mayon's slopes collapsed because of their weak foundations and rolled down the mountain, throwing up clouds of ash that swamped villages up to 12 kilometres from the crater. The black rain came as Mayon, in Albay province 330 km southeast of Manila, stayed quiet for a sixth straight day after a week of powerful eruptions.
Nearly 70,000 people fled their homes when the volcano started erupting on February 24.
With Mayon in a lull, it was the estimated 50 million cubic metres of volcanic material that its eruptions deposited on its flanks that posed the biggest danger to surrounding towns and villages, scientists said. Heavy rain could loosen these deposits and turn them into violent rivers of mud and rocks.
The volcano killed 77 villagers in its last major eruption in 1993. More than 1,200 died and a whole town was buried under tonnes of ash in 1814, when it unleashed its most destructive blast.

Source: see the link above.

This website is the 3rd draft designed and written for the HKUSU by Anthony C.H. CHUA 蔡誌慶, PhD Student in Law, HKU, and member of Trip001, on 10 March 2000 (then 26 March 2000, 8 Mar 2001) pending formal approvals from the Trip members and from HKUSU, and pending linkage/transfer to the HKUSU website. (please see acknowledgement section in FrontPage)