Didicas Volcano
Updated: 19 avril. 2024 17:12 GMT -
compound volcano 228 m / 748 ft
Nord de Luzon (Philippines), 19.08°N / 122.2°E
Condition actuelle: normal / en sommeil (1 sur 5)
Nord de Luzon (Philippines), 19.08°N / 122.2°E
Condition actuelle: normal / en sommeil (1 sur 5)
Didicas volcano is a small volcanic island 22 km NE of Camiguin Island, 60 km off the northern coast of Luzon, Philippines.
Until 1952, it was a submarine volcano that had previously formed temporary islands during eruptions. In the eruption of 1952 the submarine volcano formed a new lava dome that surfaced above sea level and has become now a permanent new island.
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Eruptions du volcan Didicas: 1978, 1969, 1952, 1900, 1856-1857, 1773
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Introduction
Didicas volcano now consists of a small, 244-m-high andesitic lava dome about 1.4 km in its longest diameter.A 400-m-wide crater was formed during the 1952 eruption. The first recorded submarine eruption of Didicas occurred in 1773.
In an eruption in 1860, Didicas also built a new island, the first recorded cone of Didicas breaching the sea surface. It reached a height of 213 m in 1860, when the eruption ended, but it was soon eroded beneath the sea, because it mainly consisted of loose tephra. 3 rock masses up to 82 m high were left after an eruption in 1900. 2 more eruptions occurred since 1952 at an explosion crater on the northern side of the island.
(Source: GVP volcano information)
Eruptions du volcan Didicas
1969 eruption of Didicas
A new 20 m wide crater formed on the N side of the island and was observed for the first time on 27 March 1969 during a reconnaissance flight. The crater measuring was filled with muddy boiling water, the northern half of the island was covered by thick whitish-gray ash and the sea water in front of the crater was discolored.
3 people who were fishing near the coast of Didicas Island drowned when a volcanic tsunami generated by the eruption "swollowed" them.
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Source: GVP monthly bulletin
A new 20 m wide crater formed on the N side of the island and was observed for the first time on 27 March 1969 during a reconnaissance flight. The crater measuring was filled with muddy boiling water, the northern half of the island was covered by thick whitish-gray ash and the sea water in front of the crater was discolored.
3 people who were fishing near the coast of Didicas Island drowned when a volcanic tsunami generated by the eruption "swollowed" them.
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Source: GVP monthly bulletin
1952 eruption: a new island is formed
Didicas was a submarine volcano until 1952, when an eruption formed a new island, that resisted erosion afterwards. It now measures up to 1.4 km in diameter and rises about 250 m above sea level.
A US pilot on a reconnaissance flight who observed the Didicas'eruption compared it to the similar submarine eruption in 1956 between the islands of Oahu and Kauai in Hawaii he and others had observed.
Didicas was a submarine volcano until 1952, when an eruption formed a new island, that resisted erosion afterwards. It now measures up to 1.4 km in diameter and rises about 250 m above sea level.
A US pilot on a reconnaissance flight who observed the Didicas'eruption compared it to the similar submarine eruption in 1956 between the islands of Oahu and Kauai in Hawaii he and others had observed.
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