MANILA (The Straits Times/Philippines Daily Inquirer/ANN): Steaming fissures have been discovered on some parts of Taal Volcano Island, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said on Friday (Jan 17).
In its latest Taal Volcano eruption bulletin, Phivolcs said the fissures or cracks indicating high volumes of magma, were discovered on the northern slopes of the island.
It is understood that the lake that once filled the crater of the Taal volcano in the Philippines has almost completely disappeared due to the interaction of water with the magma that has driven a lot of the volcano's explosive behaviour since Sunday . Other radar satellites are being used to track how the ground is deforming around the volcano. The EU's Sentinel-1 spacecraft are able to do this by stacking repeat images one on top the other.
The disappearance of most of the lake's waters was captured in a radar image by the Finnish Iceye radar constellation, which relied on the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum to peer through ejected ash and clouds at the hard surface below.
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