Catalog record
These fields are copied from the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program Holocene volcano snapshot stored on this site. The file was fetched 2026-09-19T12:21:44Z. It is a location catalog, not a live alert.
- Catalog name
- Taal
- GVP number
- 273070
- Country
- Philippines
- Type
- Caldera
- Elevation
- 311 m
- Region
- Western Pacific Volcanic Regions
- Subregion
- Luzon Volcanic Arc
- Tectonic setting
- Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
- Last-eruption year
- 2026
- Evidence code
- Eruption Observed
- Latitude, longitude
- 14.0106, 120.9975
Elevation rank in the Luzon Volcanic Arc in this snapshot: 8 of 9. Rank is by the listed elevation only. It is not a hazard ranking.
How to read the last-eruption year
The year is a catalog field. A recent year means the snapshot recorded activity in that year. It is not an alert level, a size, or a statement about what happens next. Evidence codes in this file include “Eruption Observed” and “Eruption Dated.” Those are Smithsonian categories for how the eruption year was established, not a forecast flag.
Setting
Taal’s catalog type is caldera and the elevation is 311 m. Pinatubo, same Luzon Volcanic Arc, is a stratovolcano at 1,486 m. Mayon is 2,462 m and sits in a different subregion, the Eastern Philippine Volcanic Arc. All three coordinates fall inside this site’s Philippines rectangle (latitude 4 to 22, longitude 115 to 130).
The last-eruption year is 2026. That is the catalog year, not a description of an eruption and not a notice to evacuate. Low elevation is not a hazard score. This page does not publish alert levels.
Inside these documented rectangles: Philippines. The rectangles are documented on the About page. They are a lat/lon belt, not an official plate polygon.
Other volcanoes in this subregion
Highest listed elevations in the Luzon Volcanic Arc in this snapshot, excluding this volcano when it is already first:
- Banahaw, 2,158 m, last-eruption year not listed.
- Pinatubo, 1,486 m, last-eruption year 2021.
- Cagua, 1,133 m, last-eruption year 1860.
Distance to published great-earthquake epicenters
The distances below use this volcano’s catalog coordinates and epicenters from the USGS list of the 20 largest earthquakes since 1900. They are spherical distances to points, not distances to a fault trace, and not a hazard score.
- 1938 M8.5 Banda Sea (1938-02-01 19:04 UTC) — 2,421 km from the catalog point.
- 2005 M8.6 Nias, Indonesia (2005-03-28 16:10 UTC) — 2,940 km from the catalog point.
- 2007 M8.4 southern Sumatra (2007-09-12 11:10 UTC) — 2,983 km from the catalog point.
You can repeat the measurement for any coordinates on the distance to fault references tool.
What this page will not tell you
It will not tell you the next eruption time, the next earthquake on the neighboring trench, or an evacuation route. For U.S. volcano notices, use the USGS Volcano Hazards Program. For earthquakes, use the USGS event pages linked from Live Quakes. This site’s volcano map only draws the Holocene catalog.