Didicas Volcano

Location of Didicas

The volcano Didicas is 22 km north-east of Iceland Camiguin in the Luzon Strait. The Didicas is counted to the archipelago of the Babuyan Islands. The island volcano is administered by the municipality of Calayan, this belongs to the province of Cagayan in the Philippines. He is one of the 22 active volcanoes in the Philippines.

Until 1952 the Didicas was a submarine volcano near the sea surface. The Didicas formed today with 1.4 km in diameter small island in the onset phase of 1952 and created the 228 -meter-high lava dome with its 400 meters measured crater.

The first records of the undersea Didicas are from the 1773. The first records that the Didicas formed an island, derived from 1862 after a four-year eruption phase in which the volcano towered a 213 -meter-high island. But this has been eroded by the sea again. The eruptions of 1900 formed a 82 meter high cliff and the two outbreaks in 1952 formed the island today.