Mount pinatubo
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- Mt. Pinatubo-Eruption 1991
- Effects
- Primary
- 300 people killed
- Magma oozed out around the Volcano
- A massive eruption ejected 5 cu. km of volcanic material
- This caused 1000's of building to be covered in ash and destroyed
- An ash cloud was sent 35km into the sky
- effected world flights
- Global temperatures dropped by 0.5 degrees centegrade
- Electricity lines were destroyed
- Secondary
- 1.2 million people lost their homes
- 650,000 people lost their jobs
- Farmland became unusable for years
- Lahars caused river bank erosion
- Full econic recovery cost $10 billion
- 500 people died from diseases caused by volcano
- Primary
- Responses
- Long Term
- New homes and schools were built
- New villages away from the affected area are slowly being built
- Government attempting to invest in area
- Repairs from the eruption still continue
- Short Term
- Shanty town type refugee camps set up
- Emergency aid sent to the area
- Disater relief from foreign countries
- Some infrastucture repair
- Long Term
- Key Info
- Erupted between 12th-15th June 1991
- Composite Volcano
- Explosive eruption- 2nd biggest of the century
- Causes
- In April 1991, Magma began to rise from 32km below the volcano to the surface
- This caused more earthquakes
- and large steam explosions forming 3 craters in the vocano
- 1000's of tons of Sulfur dioxide were let out
- 1000's of tons of Sulfur dioxide were let out
- A landslide and local earthquakes were recorded at mount Pinatubo.
- This suggested the Volcano was waking
- A 7.8 magnitude Earthquake hit the Philippines,
- 100km away from the volcano.
- In 1990
- Caused shaking and of the earth's crust beneath the volcano
- In April 1991, Magma began to rise from 32km below the volcano to the surface
- Effects
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