SOME AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE MAYON VOLCANO - Mayon is the most "perfect" stratovolcano. Its eruptions have been very symmetric and given it a smooth conical shape.

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Mayon Volcano

What are some amazing facts about the Mayon Volcano?

Mount Mayon, Legazpi City, Philippines  

The Most Perfect Volcano
Mayon is the most "perfect" stratovolcano; its eruptions have been very symmetric and given it a smooth conical shape.

Here's Mount Fuji, another stratovolcano renowned for its symmetry. It has a pretty good cone shape, but not nearly as perfect as Mayon, it's steeper on one side than the other, and the top is crooked:

The Summer That Never Was
Mayon's biggest eruption was in 1814.

The ash created by this eruption, which was piled up 30 feet deep in places, contributed to "The Summer That Never Was" in 1815.

Due to the eruptions of Mayon and other volcanos, there was so much ash in the atmosphere blocking sunlight during the summer of 1815 that most of Europe and North America were below freezing all summer.

The sky was red or yellow at all times. Crops were killed by snow and lakes were frozen in June and July.

Hundreds of thousands of people died.

On the plus side, it was a great time to stay indoor and write - a contest among miserable authors stuck inside to see who could write the scariest story gave us Frankenstein and A Figment, the story that eventually inspired Dracula.

Some historians argue that the deaths of horses due to food shortages during “The Summer That Never Was” inspired the invention of the bicycle that year, there weren't enough horses for people to get around on.

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