MANILA — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Saturday lowered the alert level for Taal volcano, 66 km south of the capital region Manila, due to “decreased unrest.”
Alert level 2 on a scale of 0-5 means “that there is a decreased unrest but should not be interpreted that unrest has ceased or that the threat of an eruption has disappeared,” the institute said. (Philippines-Taal Volcano-Aler