Similar to what happened in the aftermath of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption, lahar flows can cause deaths, injuries, and loss of homes and sources of livelihood. “Build back better” is a mantra ...

A pre- and post-eruption effect is the accumulation of ash on the mountain slopes, which during heavy rains can cause a mixture of ash and rocks to flow down into towns and destroy homes and ...

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately drawn Sun motifs. Scholars now speculate that these stones might have been ...

After the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz killed more than 23,000 people in Colombia in 1985, the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance asked the U.S. Geological Survey to design a program to ...

Mt. Pinatubo erupted violently on June 15, 1991, marking the second-largest terrestrial eruption of the 20 th century and blanketing the nearby provinces of Zambales, Pampanga, Tarlac and Bataan ...

An animation of the Mount Pinatubo eruption of 1991 in the Philippines and its effect on the global climate. The eruption caused sulphur dioxide and ash particles to be ejected into the atmosphere.

The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) on Tuesday cautioned evacuees from the Kanlaon eruption that it is still unsafe to return to their homes within the ...

Edited by: Neeraja Sankaran C.R. Trepte, R.E. Viega, M.P. McCormick, "The poleward dispersal of Mount Pinatubo volcanic aerosol," Journal of Geophysical Research, 98:18563-73, 1993. (Cited in 12 ...