Free activity · 20 minutes · updated 26 July 2026

Mayon Virtual Field Trip

A four-stop inquiry through Mayon’s cone, Cagsawa, 2018 south-flank activity, and Daraga. It asks learners to separate direct observation, historical evidence, scientific inference, and illustration.

1. Cone

Question: What can you observe directly from the terrain, and what must be inferred about the eruptions that built it?

2. Cagsawa

Question: Which claims come from the surviving landscape, which from historical record, and which are reconstruction?

3. 2018

Question: How can vent location, slope, and changing conditions influence an observed lava route?

4. Daraga

Question: How do heritage, livelihood, and uncertainty change the meaning of a volcanic landscape?

What this field trip can teach

Mayon is used here as a landscape for evidence-led questions. The experience combines a locally baked terrain model, a static imagery drape, historical interpretation, and conceptual process layers. Those are not equivalent kinds of evidence.

Use the methodology and data page when learners need to check how the terrain, imagery, interior model, or hazard layers were made.

Educational boundary

This is not a live monitoring, warning, forecast, evacuation, or route-planning tool. For current conditions or public-safety instructions, consult PHIVOLCS and local authorities.

Sources and further reading