Philippines raises alert level at restive Mayon volcanoListen to this articleVisitors take pictures of volcanic ash spewing out of a crater of Mount Mayon volcano during an eruption in Camalig, Albay province, south of Manila, the Philippines, on Jan 29, 2018. (File photo: Reuters)MANILA — ‍The ‍Philippines on Tuesday raised its alert level for the Mayon volcano in ‌the central province of ​Albay, warning of "potential explosive activity" in the coming days or weeks and advising people to stay outside of a 6-kilometre (3.7 miles) danger zone. Mayon is the most active of 22 volcanoes in the Philippines, having erupted more than 50 times in the last four centuries. The most destructive eruption came in February ‌1841 ​when lava flows buried an entire town and killed 1,200 people. The Philippines lies on the "Ring of Fire", a belt of volcanoes circling the Pacific Ocean that is also prone to earthquakes.

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