On June 15, 1991, the largest land volcano eruption in living history shook the Philippine island of Luzon as Mount Pinatubo, a formerly unassuming lump of jungle-covered slopes, blew its top. Ash ...
Filipinos pondered if they should move to shelters. Some lived along riverbeds where deadly pyroclastic flows and thick mud streams called lahars would roll down from the mountainside at high speeds, ...
If you'd been on the Philippines island of Luzon on June 15, 1991, you'd have been forgiven for thinking that the world was ending. Typhoon Yunya was screaming across the island, but the angry skies ...
Weather and geology collided in the middle of June 1991 when a typhoon swirled over one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in living memory. The island of Luzon dealt with two disasters at once ...
BOTOLAN, Zambales — With mostly sunny days and balmy weather this month, Zambales officially opened its Mt. Pinatubo adventure season to entice visitors to discover and experience what is billed here ...
BOTOLAN, Zambales, Philippines — Reynaldo Cabalic braved the rising waters of Balin-Baquero and Bucao rivers on June 2 to reach Sitio Tarupok in Villar, one of the 11 villages in the Aeta ancestral ...
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology warned Wednesday that prolonged and intense rainfall brought by Typhoon Ulysses could cause lahar flows in communities near ...