The eruption killed hundreds, forced the United States to close Clark Air Force base in Angeles City near Pinatubo, destroyed 207,862 acres of agricultural land and wiped out entire villages such ...

Ash, smoke and mayhem descended onto Clark Air Base when nearby Mount Pinatubo erupted three decades ago in the Philippines. In the hours after the eruption on June 15, 1991, Susan Kreifels, Stars ...

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.

By the time Pinatubo's climactic eruption ended, a snowlike blanket of ash at least a half-inch (1 centimeter) thick coated 4,660 square miles (7,500 square km) of the island of Luzon.

When Mt. Pinatubo erupted in 1991, it was a truly catastrophic event. Its gasses spread across the globe, and led to measurable cooling.

When the volcano came back to life in 1990-1991, it had likely been ~540 years since Pinatubo's last eruption. That's before any European had set foot on the island, so all the cultural history of ...

Mt. Pinatubo's 500-year dormancy ended in early April 1991. For weeks, the volcano sent warning puffs of gas and ash into the air above the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Scientists ...

One such critter was Apomys sacobianus, the Pinatubo volcano mouse, which spent its days hunting for earthworms and other foods. On June 15, 1991, the apocalypse befell paradise.

Move over Monet. Here comes Mount Pinatubo. Using a highly corrosive acid as pigment, a dreamy impressionist style and a canvas as sweeping as the horizon, the Philippine volcano has begun painting… ...

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.

The Aftermath By the time Pinatubo's climactic eruption ended, a snowlike blanket of ash at least a half-inch (1 centimeter) thick coated 4,660 square miles (7,500 square km) of the island of Luzon.