However, George, at the full and new moons, because the Earth, moon and sun line up, the tidal effects of the sun and the moon are cumulative, whereas during a waxing and waning moon the respective tidal effects of the moon and the sun tend to cancel one another to some extent.

You don’t get out much do you?

But if a full moon lasts one day out of every 28, and eruptions happen at random with respect to the phase of the moon, then out of 50 eruptions you would expect to get a few on the full moon just by chance.

Nice analogy. I can almost hear the mayon: “A little to the left, no further up, yeah, there, exacly, that feels soooooo goood”.

Additionally ( just to show off, translating from my mother tongue to english ) Mr. Corpuz claims that at least 3 of the almost 50 eruptions within the last 4 centuries have been in tune with a full-moon phase, just like the two latest eruptions in 2000 and 2001.

According to Mr. Solidum there are indicators for an explosive eruption of the Mayon. The current amounts of Sulfur-Dioxide blown out by the volcano indicates that gas-containing magma is ‘climbing’ upwards inside the mountain. Then the gas ‘production’ decreased from more than 12.000 tons to about 7.800 tons a day, which means that something, as Marlayna said, is blocking the magma flow – which, as a consequence, does increase the risk of a dangerous, explosvice eruption.

I hope I was able to add something valueable, rather than just complaining about some people translating the iconized internet speak into proper written english ..

Grretings!