Overall Green alert Volcanic eruption for Taal
in Philippines

Event summary

GREEN alert: The Taal Volcanic eruption is unlikely to require external humanitarian assistance based on the exposed population and coping capacity.

GDACS ID VO 1000124
Name: Taal (273070)
Lat/Lon: 14.01 , 121
Event Date: 12 Nov 2025 UTC
Exposed Population 30km: About 3500000 people within 30km
Exposed Population 100km: About 32060000 people within 100km
Max Volc. Explosivity Index VEI: 6
Population Exposure Index PEI: 6
Inserted at: 12 Nov 2025 09:44 UTC

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (32), (2), INGV (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2), JSR (1),