Dozens of people have died, hundreds are missing and many more homes were destroyed after separate volcanic eruptions in Hawaii and Guatemala that made headlines worldwide in recent months. And ...
Filipinos pondered if they should move to shelters. Some lived along riverbeds where deadly pyroclastic flows and thick mud streams called lahars would roll down from the mountainside at high speeds, ...
If you'd been on the Philippines island of Luzon on June 15, 1991, you'd have been forgiven for thinking that the world was ending. Typhoon Yunya was screaming across the island, but the angry skies ...
Weather and geology collided in the middle of June 1991 when a typhoon swirled over one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in living memory. The island of Luzon dealt with two disasters at once ...
BOTOLAN, Zambales, Philippines — Reynaldo Cabalic braved the rising waters of Balin-Baquero and Bucao rivers on June 2 to reach Sitio Tarupok in Villar, one of the 11 villages in the Aeta ancestral ...
MANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Pepito (international name: Man-yi), which is forecast to become a super typhoon before landfall, may trigger lahar from Taal, Pinatubo, and Mayon volcanoes, the ...
QUEZON CITY (PIA) – The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) continues its close monitoring of volcanoes, particularly Mayon in Albay, Taal in Batangas and Pinatubo in Central ...