Modern Era · Southeast Asia · Disaster
1991
Mount Pinatubo Erupts
June 15, 1991
The second-largest volcanic eruption of the twentieth century blew the top off Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, ejecting ten cubic kilometers of ash and burying Clark Air Base under a gray shroud. Eight hundred people died; millions were displaced. Global temperatures dropped by half a degree for two years. The earth had coughed, and the climate flinched.
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