A dozen Aeta tribesmen with picks and shovels started climbing the Mount Pinatubo yesterday on a dangerous mission to drain a crater lake that threatens their villages with massive floods.

But after nearby Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991 ... to climb the 4,740- foot volcano and then swim in the sky-blue crater lake that sits in the middle of it. About 3,500 people scale it every ...

Explain how a crater lake is formed and its possible dangers. Evaluate different designs for a canal to drain the Mount Pinatubo volcano's crater lake. High school students should know that ...

Manila - Digging operations to drain a crater lake atop Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines have been completed but monitors will remain on alert for possible volcanic mudflow, an official said on ...

Last Thursday, government geologists and engineers with the help of local aborigines released accumulated rain water from Pinatubo crater by breaching Maraunot Notch, the lowest portion of the ...

BOTOLAN, Philippines (AP) _ Thousands of people evacuated villages near Mount Pinatubo on Wednesday as workers prepared to breach the volcano's crater to drain its brimming lake. Dozens of trucks ...

Pinatubo’s crater lake during the rainy season because heavy rains may trigger the collapse of the volcano’s crater wall. Ronaldo Tiotuico, DOT director in Central Luzon, said he is concerned ...

This is Mount Pinatubo, an active stratovolcano located at the tri-point of Zambales, Tarlac and Pampanga. It had remained dormant for around 600 years until that tragic day on June 15, 1991, when ...

CLARK FIELD, Pampanga — The resident volcanologist of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) here clarified yesterday that the crater rim of Mt. Pinatubo is not about ...

Mayor Antonio Rodriguez of Capas, Tarlac, aired this advice on Friday after a 44-year-old man drowned at the volcano’s crater-lake on Jan. 2. Roselito Julao ventured into Mt. Pinatubo via ...