Alpha Subanon released their sophomore EP for download to raise funds for the victims of The Taal Volcano Eruption. This is to help spread awareness about the immense suffering and destruction that our friends (people and animals) are dealing within Batangas, Philippines and surrounding areas. You may download the EP and 100% of proceeds generated will be donated to the disaster and relief effort initiatives in Batangas, Philippines.

Taal, the Philippines’ second-most-active volcano, surprised even volcanologists when it suddenly erupted on Sunday. Within hours, the volcano on an island in the middle of a lake shot a plume of ash a mile high and triggered multiple earthquakes. Whether it be typhoons, earthquakes, mudslides, tsunamis, volcanoes, droughts, or floods, the Philippines has been victimized by them all. Taal’s eruptions were a reminder that the country of 105 million is perched on the Pacific Ocean’s ring of fire, where seismic activity is at its most ferocious.

Taal remained on the fourth of a five-step alert level, meaning that a hazardous explosive eruption was possible within hours or days. The earthquakes that followed the earlier eruption have caused large fissures in the ground, proving the volcano’s intense energy and hinting at an imminent explosion.
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Residents on the island, as well as those in provinces within a 14-kilometer (or 8.6-mile) danger zone, have been ordered to evacuate. Classes in some parts of Manila and in the surrounding provinces have been suspended since Monday. Emergency crews have managed to restore power and electricity to some areas, though a large part of the region still remained in the dark.

But living with the continual threat of a natural calamity has inured some people to the danger, even as communities gathered together to tend to the 50,000 people from the provinces of Cavite and Batangas who have been sent to 200 evacuation camps.

Areas nearest to the Taal Volcano have been blanketed in ash. There have also been 566 volcanic earthquakes since 1 pm last Sunday, January 12, the day Taal started erupting. Of these, 172 were magnitudes 1.2 to 4.1, and were felt at Intensities I to V. These are considered strong for volcanic earthquakes.

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📌 Days of War Nights of Love
by CrimethInc.

📌 The I Ching or Book of Changes
by: C.G. Jung (Foreword)

📌 The Way of Zen
by: Alan W. Watts

📌 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by: Friedrich Nietzsche