Friday, December 11, 2009

Why Taal is the smallest volcano?



Taal Volcano is about 400 meters above sea level and is located at Talisay and San Nicolas, Batangas, Luzon, Philippines 50 km from The Capital Manila.  It consists of an island in Lake Taal, which is situated within a caldera formed by an earlier, very powerful eruption. Thirty three eruptions have been recorded since 1572 at Taal, mostly on Volcano Island and the greatest recorded eruption was on 1754 and the last was in 1977. Volcano Island contains a lake about 2 km across, called Crater Lake. Within Crater Lake is another small volcanic island, called Vulcan Point.

Here in the Philippine it is dubbed as a "A volcano inside a volcano"