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Twenty-eight years ago this week a little-known volcano in the mountains of Luzon, the Philippines, erupted.

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• USGS: Remembering Mount Pinatubo 25 Years Ago: Mitigating A Crisis
• Some scientific information about the global effects of this eruption
• Global Volcanism Program page

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Featured image: US Geological Survey via Wikimedia

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