Mount Pinatubo
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Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains in Luzon in the Philippines. Located on the tripoint of Zambales, Tarlac and Pampanga provinces, most people were unaware of its eru
Mount Pinatubo after the 1991 eruption, the crater lake in 2012
Aerial view of Mount Pinatubo prior to 1991 eruption, March 1933
Pinatubo in April 1991, approximately two months in advance of the eruption.
The eruption column of Mount Pinatubo on June 12, 1991, three days before the climactic eruption
Lahar
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A lahar is a violent type of mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of pyroclastic material, rocky debris and water. The material flows down from a volcano, typically along a river valley.
Mount Pinatubo
…thousands of people, saving many lives. The eruption severely damaged surrounding areas with pyroclastic surges, pyroclastic falls, and later, flooding lahars caused by rainwater re-mobilizing volcanic deposits. This destruction affected infrastructure and altered river systems for years. Minor dome-forming…
A lahar travels down a river valley in Guatemala near the Santa María volcano, 1989
Excavated 9th century Sambisari Hindu temple near Yogyakarta in Java, Indonesia. The temple was buried 6.5 metres under the lahar volcanic debris accumulated from centuries of Mount Merapi eruptions.
The aftermath of a lahar from the 1982 eruption of Galunggung, Indonesia
The lahar from the 1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz that wiped out the town of Armero in Colombia