File:Mount Mayon, prior to the September 1984 eruption.jpg

Summary
Location: Philippines Date: 1984 Photographer: Randy C. Bunney

Mayon Volcano overlooks a pastoral scene some five months before the volcano's violent eruption in September 1984. Ruins from a nearby church destroyed in an 1814 eruption are visible in the foreground. One of the climbing approaches to the 2,462 meter Mayon Volcano begins on the northwest slope near the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology research station.