Multi-hazardous environment

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The Philippines:

Location: the Philippines, south east Asia.

Vulnerability: variety of hazards.

Volcanoes: destructive plate margin; Philippine plate was subducted under Eurasian plate.

Volcanic eruption: Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991. 700 people died; 200,000 left homeless; buildings collapsed; crops were destroyed; damaged agricultural land from ash.

Seismic hazards: earthquakes occur along the plate margin and at fault lines where the plate has cracked under pressure.

Earthquake: Luzon Island in 1990 with a magnitude of

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