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= =  Mt Pinatubo Eruption Mt Pinatubo is loacted in the Phillipines, on the Island of Luzon, 90 km NE of the capital Manila. It's part of a chain of Composite volcanos on the west coast. Mt Pinatubo aproximatly erupted 500, 3000 & 5,5000 years ago.

A year before the eruption a 7.8 magnitude earthquake viontly shook the area 100km NE of the pinatubo reigion. This earthquake was the cause of Mt Pinatubo's reawaking a year later.

The first signs of eruption showed up on Mid-March, 1991. Villagers sourronding the volcano felt earthquakes, the next month small explosions from the vents dusted the villagers with ash. 5,000 people were evacuted a few weeks later.

"VOOM,CRASH,BANG!!!!!!' the volcano just suddenly erupted on June the 15th at 1:42pm, the explosion lasted for 9 long hours. The summit of Mt Pinatubo collasped and fell to the ground with a mighty "BOOM!". The houses were all distroyed as the lava crept through them, the ash blanked the sky blocking the suns light for days. 800 people lost their lives.

At the same time another disaster was happening as well. Tropical Storm Yunya created lots of rainfall, it mixed with the ash to create a rainfall of tephra. The entire island of Luzon was flooded with rainfall which added more to the damage.

Mt Pinatubo expeled out massive amounts of gas, it covered the earth reflecting sunlight & heat. the temp. in the Northen Hemisphere was reduced by 0.5 - 0.6°C while n the Southren Hemisphere the temp. was reduced by 0.4 - 0.5°C. the clould created gleaming sunsets for the next few years. It also ejected the poisonious gas Sulphur Dioxide, it mixed with the H2O (water) & O2 (oxygen) to create Sulphric Acid which burnt hole in the Ozone layer.

On August 1992 a year after the eruption, everyone thought Mt Pinatubo had fallen asleep............ but it was still awake!!! "ROA...R, BOOM!!" it erupted again covering the ruins and smooth rock the volcano made last time, at least tropical storm Yunya wasn't there. 72 people died.

The results Mt Pinatubo was disastorus,872 people in total died ,100,000 were homeless & half a billion dollars of property gone. The eruption disrupted the Phillipines economy very badly, especilly on the Island of Luzon. The reigion is recovering & rebuilding fron the ruins today, this is one of the damaging disasters in history. . . ..