The Philippines is truly living up to its reputation as one of the countries most prone to natural disasters, with typhoons, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on the regular menu of unwelcome visitors. Worse, the economic losses are mounting, and each disaster seems to be worse than the one before it. A preliminary assessment of the impact to the economy of the ongoing restlessness of Taal Volcano was estimated by Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia at P7.63
I have lived long enough to have witnessed firsthand the aftermath of the Taal Volcano eruption in September 1965. According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), that eruption left 200 casualties. It was a violent, phreatomagmatic eruption that spewed rock fragments and ashfall, leaving a 25-centimeter thick
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