A minor phreatomagmatic eruption—an event that happens when magma comes into contact with water—occurred at the Taal Volcano early Tuesday morning, Dec. 3, said the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).
The eruption, which lasted for four minutes, began at 5:58 a.m. and produced a 600-meter-tall plume that eventually rose to 2,800 meters above Taal Volcano Island (TVI) before it drifted west-southwest.
