Ash emission at the Kanlaon Volcano summit crater in Negros Island resumed at 9:43 a.m. on Friday, February 27, 2026.

According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) the ash emission dispersed profuse ash southwest of the volcano.

Alert Level 2 is currently maintained but the alert status may be raised in the next few hours should unrest persist or worsen, PHIVOLCS said.

"This means that this most recent explosive eruption and ash emission events may possibly be followed by a return to moderate unrest conditions, similar to what has been experienced in recent explosions of the volcano, or by the onset of fully magmatic unrest. Such activity could produce dangerous volcanic hazards within the Lava and PDC Hazard Zones of the volcano, disperse ash over the general west to southwest and produce material that could feed lahars in affected drainage channels," PHIVOLCS added.

A short-lived, moderately explosive eruption occurred at the summit crater of Kanlaon Volcano at 7:04 p.m. on February 26, 2026, that lasted two (2) minutes based on seismic and visual recordings.

The event was recorded by all 14 seismic-infrasound stations of the Kanlaon Volcano Network, as well as by six (6) stations of the Hibok-Hibok Volcano Network.

The eruption generated a dense dark gray plume that rose 2,500 meters above the vent before drifting southwest; volcanic lightning was generated within the eruption plume at least three times, PHIVOLCS said further.

Incandescent ballistic fragments were launched as high as 1.5 kilometers from the summit crater and landed as far as one (1) kilometer on the south to 1.5 kilometers on the southeast, forming a briefly glowing collar on the summit area.

Pyroclastic density currents or PDCs, hazardous mixtures of hot volcanic gas, ash and fragmented rock, descended the southeast and eastern upper slopes within two (2) kilometers of the summit crater.

(Info courtesy: DOST-PHIVOLCS)