Spots of Mindanao

Spots of Mindanao
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Saturday, 30 January 2016

Mount Hibok Hibok


Mount Hibok-Hibok is a strato volcano on Camiguin Island in the Philippines. It is one of the active volcanoes in the country and part of the Pacific ring of fire.




Hibok-Hibok volcano (also known as Catarman volcano) is the youngest and the only historically active volcano on Camiguin Island, which is located 9 km off the north coast of Mindanao Island, Philippines.
Hibok-Hibok volcano are often Pelean-type, i.e. dome building and the generation of nuĂ©es ardentes (hot pyroclastic flows generated by partial dome collapse). 

Prior to the 1948 eruption, sulfur was mined at the crater of Hibok-Hibok. 


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