A volcano within a lake within a caldera, an hour south of Manila. Water and magma meeting makes its eruptions violently explosive: the 2020 blast threw ash over the capital and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
Erupted since 2000
Caldera · Andesite / Basaltic Andesite
0 events in 90 days
Seismicity within 50 km radius, active VAAC ash plumes, and tectonic plate boundaries.
No catalogued earthquakes within 50 km in the last 90 days.
Taal is an active Caldera formed in an active Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km). Dominant lithology: Andesite / Basaltic Andesite.
Official catalogue parameters, coordinates, elevation and geotectonic classification.
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Catalogue: Smithsonian Institution, Global Volcanism Program.Smithsonian GVP profile