Mt. Pinatubo's 500-year dormancy ended in early ... This prediction prompted the evacuation of 50,000 people who lived on or near the volcano's slopes, a measure that undoubtedly saved thousands ...

[In Photos: The Colossal Eruption of Mount Pinatubo ] Nonetheless, only a few hundred people died in the initial eruption, thanks to round-the-clock volcano monitoring, proactive evacuation plans ...

Despite the extent of the destruction, the number of casualties from the Mount Pinatubo eruption was relatively low, according to Sevilla. Given an increasing number of people living in areas near ...

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 ...

Tourism activities at Mount Pinatubo have been suspended indefinitely, with the Department of Tourism (DOT) supporting the move due to unresolved ancestral doma ...

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 ...

Mount St. Helens, the largest volcanic eruption in US history, was commemorated this weekend, 45 years after its eruption, ...

For 600 years, Mount Pinatubo appeared to be sleeping ... As a result, in early June officials evacuated 50,000 people from within this 16-kilometer (10-mile) perimeter. When the volcano erupted ...