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Makaturing Volcano | John Seach
Lanao del Sur Province, Mindanao, Philippines
7.647 N, 124.32 E
summit elevation 1908 m
Stratovolcano
Makaturing volcano is located about 40 km South of Marawi city, in central Mindanao, Philippines. The volcano is part of Central Mindanao Arc.
There have been 10 historical eruptions at the volcano. The most recent eruption was in 1882.
1765 eruption
The navigator Thomas Forrest described a large eruption at Makaturing in 1765, and his account remains the only written record of the event. Basaltic tephra from the eruption reached 220 km SW to the Sulu islands and 40 km south to the Sultanate of Mindanao. The eruption magnitude has been estimated by Jenkins et al. 2020 as possibly VEI 4.
Further reading
Jenkins, S.F., Phua, M., Warren, J.F., Biass, S. and de Maisonneuve, C.B., 2020. Reconstructing eruptions from historical accounts: Makaturing c. 1765, Philippines. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 404, p.107022.
Macpherson, C.G., Dreher, S.T. and Thirlwall, M.F., 2006. Adakites without slab melting: high pressure differentiation of island arc magma, Mindanao, the Philippines. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 243(3-4), pp.581-593.
Sajona, F.G., Bellon, H., Maury, R.C., Pubellier, M., Quebral, R.D., Cotten, J., Bayon, F.E., Pagado, E. and Pamatian, P., 1997. Tertiary and quaternary magmatism in Mindanao andLeyte (Philippines): geochronology, geochemistry and tectonic setting. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 15(2-3), pp.121-153.
Makaturing Volcano Eruptions
1882, 1865, 1858, 1856, 1765