Mt. Pinatubo Volcano

Posted by Shopping Finds on Jan 29, 2008 in Travel | 0 comments

Mayon Volcano seems to be one of the most search item in this blog. Before this became a Shopping Blog, this blog featured Philippine travel photos and our tourist attraction. I just want to continue to feature a few selected spots in our country.

Recently, my daughter hiked Mt. Pinatubo till they reached the crater. The crater is filled with a deep blue hue. So beautiful, said my daughter.

According to my daughter, the photos of Mt.Pinatubo Volcano don’t do justice. One has to be actually there to bask in the beauty of Mt. Pinatubo.

It is recalled that

In June 1991, after more than four centuries of slumber, Pinatubo Volcano in the Philippines erupted so violently that more than 5 billion cubic meters of ash and pyroclastic debris were ejected from its fiery bowels producing eruption columns 18 kilometers wide at the base and heights reaching up to 30 kilometers above the volcano’s vent.
In its wake 847 people lay dead, 184 injured, 23 missing, and more than 1 millon people displaced. Hundreds of millions of dollars in private properties and infrastructure lay in ruins which would require tens of billions of pesos and several years to rebuild. For months, the ejected volcanic materials remained suspended in the atmosphere where the winds dispersed them to envelope the earth, reaching as far as Russia and North America. This phenomenon caused the world’s temperature to fall by an average of 1 degree Celsius. Clearly, Pinatubo’s eruption signals the world’s most violent and destructive volcanic event of the 20th century.

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