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A 7.8 M w earthquake strikes the island of Luzon, Philippines. The epicenter was near the town of Rizal, Nueva Ecija, roughly 60 kilometers (37 mi) from Mount Pinatubo. This earthquake caused a landslide, some local tremors, and a brief increase in steam emissions from a preexisting geothermal area at Mount Pinatubo. [2] March–June 1991
The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines' Luzon Volcanic Arc was the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, behind only the 1912 eruption of Novarupta in Alaska. Eruptive activity began on April 2 as a series of phreatic explosions from a fissure that opened on the north side of Mount Pinatubo .
Mt. Hibok-Hibok eruption: 1827, 1862, 1871 and 1948–1952: On February 16, 1871, earthquakes and subterranean rumblings began to be felt in Camiguin, which increased in severity until April 30 when a volcanic fissure opened up 400 yards southwest of the village of Catarman, on the northwest flank of the Hibok-Hibok Volcano. From the opening ...
Typhoon Yunya, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Diding, was a strong tropical cyclone whose landfall in the Philippines coincided with the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. A small tropical cyclone, Yunya rapidly developed from a tropical disturbance near East Samar on June 11. By June 13 the storm had reached typhoon status as it moved west ...
Mount Pinatubo [4] is an active stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains in Luzon in the Philippines. Located on the tripoint of Zambales , Tarlac and Pampanga provinces, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] most people were unaware of its eruptive history before the pre-eruption volcanic activity in early 1991.
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A 7.6 magnitude earthquake has hit the Philippines, triggering a tsunami warning.. The quake struck off the island of Mindanao late at night, with residents living on the eastern coast urged to ...
June 10 – About 15,000 Americans are evacuated from Clark Air Base as Pinatubo eruption begins. [9] [10] [11] [12]June 15 – Mount Pinatubo erupts, the peak of series of major explosions on June 12–16, in what will be the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century; [9] [13] [14] volcano's alert level has been raised to the highest, June 9; Typhoon Yunya further worsens lahar ...