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Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) high.
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Mount Pinatubo
Active stratovolcano in Luzon, Philippines
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 eruptive history before the pre-eruption volcanic activity in early 1991. Dense…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo
Volcanic eruption in the Philippines
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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)