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Smith Volcano, also known as Mount Babuyan, is a cinder cone on Babuyan Island, the northernmost of the Babuyan group of islands on Luzon Strait, north of the main island of Luzon in the Philippines. The mountain is one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines , which last erupted in 1924.
Calayan Island is located about 24 miles (21 nmi; 39 km) west-southwest of Babuyan Island off the north coast of the Philippines and belongs to the Babuyan Islands group in the Luzon Strait. [3] The island is hemmed between Aparri and Batanes islands and it is larger than the Fuga Island, which is 25 miles (40 km) away.
The volcano and the island are within the jurisdiction of the municipality of Calayan, in the province of Cagayan. The island has a population of 5,231 people in 2020. [3] There has been only one single eruption by the volcano prior to 1857. [4]
Babuyan Islands satellite image captured by Sentinel-2 in 2016 Smith Volcano on Babuyan Island. The eastern islands of the archipelago are part of the Luzon Volcanic Arc.Three volcanoes from two of the islands have erupted in historical times - Camiguin de Babuyanes on Camiguin Island, [5] Babuyan Claro Volcano and Smith Volcano (also known as Mount Babuyan) on Babuyan Island.
Near the western point of the island is Smith Volcano, also known as Mount Babuyan, about 2,257 ft (688 m) high.In the middle of the island and east-southeastward from Smith is Babuyan Claro, also known as Mount Pangasun, about 3,491 ft (1,064 m) high, between which the mountains are much lower, so that from a considerable distance eastward it appears as a round mountain with a detached ...
Volcanoes in the country have erupted within the last 600 years, with accounts of these eruptions documented by humans; or have erupted within the last 10,000 years . There are 100 volcanoes in the Philippines listed by the Smithsonian Institution 's Global Volcanism Program (GVP) at present, [ 6 ] of which 20 are categorized as "historical ...
Musuan Peak or Mount Musuan / ˈ m ʊ s w ən /, also known as Mount Calayo (/ k ə ˈ l ɑː j oʊ /, literally "Fire Mountain") is an active volcano in Maramag, Bukidnon, on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.
Calayan Island is located about 24 miles (39 km) west-south-west of Babuyan Island off the north coast of the Philippines and belongs to the Babuyan Islands group in the China Sea. [9] The island is hemmed between Aparri and Batanes islands and it is larger than the Fuga Island, which is 25 miles (40 km) away.