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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.
The list below showing 27 active volcanoes in the Philippines was based on the PHIVOLCS list with some included from the GVP. The number is not definite and depends on someone's definition of "active" or historical time frame. Descriptions under "eruptions" were based on the GVP website.
The PHIVOLCS listing is the basis of this list, but with additional information, some were reclassified in the active list or the potentially active list. Volcanoes with solfataric or fumarolic activity indicating active magma supply such as Pocdol Mountains, are placed in the List of potentially active volcanoes in the Philippines. This list ...
An eruption as large as Mount Pinatubo in 1991 could certainly cool the planet for a few years, though it wouldn’t be able to erase the Earth’s current climate woes caused by planet-warming ...
Although the mountains are volcanic in origin, [2] Mount Pinatubo is the only active volcano in the mountain range. Its eruption on June 15, 1991 was the second most powerful volcanic eruption of the 20th century after the 1912 eruption of Novarupta in Alaska.
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 .
Wilfried Gebhardt still remembers his first dive at Apo Reef over 30 years ago. ... to assist victims of the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption. While stationed there, he heard about a magical ...
Mount Hood is Oregon's most active volcano. ... Mount Pinatubo in Zambales. ... Recently erupted in 2013 and volcanic activity is still ongoing.