Twenty years after Pinatubo, LiveScience is reliving the largest eruption in the modern era based on what we know now. Join us each day through June 15 for a blow-by-blow account of what happened.

Twenty years ago, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines blew its top in the largest volcanic eruption in living history and the second-largest of the 20th century. Here's how it happened, day by day.