Mount+Pinatubo,+Philippines,+1991+(302)

Materials produced in eruption//** ||= **//Human response (before and after)//** ||= **//No. of casualties/ Main cause of casualty//** ||= **//Terms that might need explanation//** || - The 1991 eruption was the first to occur at Pinatubo in about 500 years - lack of baseline information for an eruption of Pinatubo and for other large eruptions made forecasts highly uncertain. - Local disbelief that Pinatubo was even a volcano, much less one that could erupt, posed a horrific challenge for scientists and civil defense leaders. Indeed, some of this skepticism was never overcome (Tayag and others).
 * = **//Nature of eruption/
 * || -  BEFORE

- AFTER - although Pinatubo threatened 1,000,000 people, only a few hundred perished. The eruption was accurately predicted and tens of thousands of people were evacuated to safe distances - An even larger number of lowlanders were displaced, more physically than culturally, by the distal reaches of the eruption and by consequent lahars - The minority Aeta population of about 20,000 was completely uprooted from their mountain life, wild fruits and animals, and supernatural spirits (C.B. Bautista). ||  ||   ||
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