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Mount Pinatubo, Philippines
Gas and ash rising from Mount Pinatubo, central Luzon, Philippines, just prior to...
David H. Harlow/U.S.Geological Survey
Clark Air Base
Buildings and vegetation at Clark Air Base, Philippines, destroyed by a thick, wet...
Willie Scott/U.S. Geological Survey
Mount Pinatubo
Earth's atmosphere showing the Mount Pinatubo dust layer, photographed from the U.S....
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Mount Pinatubo
Mount Pinatubo erupting in 1991, western Luzon, Philippines.
© T. J. Casadevall/U.S. Geological Survey
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