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Volcanoes do not keep the time of man. It can unleash its power anytime it wants. Such is Mount Pinatubo in Central Luzon.
It erupted in June 15, 1991, claiming hundreds of lives, displacing tens of thousands of people & losing billions worth of properties, while altering lives and earth’s surface.
It belongs to the Cabusilan sub-range of Zambales Mountains, alongside Mt. Cuadrado, Mt. Negron & Mt. Mataba, surrounded by Tarlac, Pampanga & Zambales.
Before the 1991 eruption, it stood at 1,745 meters above sea level, with landforms canopied by dense forests. It had peaks of volcanic plugs & lava domes as remnants of several eruptive activities of Mt. Pinatubo thousands of years ago. It laid dormant since 1500 AD, but in 1990, it started to become active, by showing steams, having small eruptions and spewing volcanic ash, alongside a succession of earthquakes.
In June 15, 1991, Mt. Pinatubo erupted, sending out massive clouds of superheated toxic waste materials into the air & high-speed avalanches of hot ash & gas. It was so strong, that it became the 2nd largest volcanic eruption in the 20th century.
To add to this event, Typhoon Diding came soon after, adding strong winds and water to the mix. It then flooded towns around it with lahar, a thick mudflow of rock fragments and volcanic material, which widened its scope of destruction.
The Aetas that lived in Pinatubo lost their homes. Hundreds of people died while thousands went missing. Survivors were displaced & homeless, their towns wiped and covered in ashes. The rivers, mountains, fields & roads destroyed. Everything was left swathed in ash and the whole Central Luzon was enveloped with chaos, trauma & fear.
Mt. Pinatubo’s wrath was also felt in other parts of the world. The massive injection of sulfuric dioxide & magma into the stratosphere formed a global sulfuric acid haze, causing the global temperature to drop, & increased ozone depletion for 2 years.
But Filipinos are known to be some of the most resilient people, in a natural disaster. Lands & rivers, buildings & roads were rehabilitated through various aids from around the world.
People found some livelihood like lahar quarrying & acquired different farming techniques. Soon, new lives began to flourish in the mounds of ash that it left in its aftermath.
The indigenous Aetas, although they were hit the hardest went back to their ancestral land along the surroundings of Mt. Pinatubo & began to cultivate root crops for a living. New settlements like Tarokan Village, overlooking Crow Valley were built outside the immediate danger zone.
Some settled along new bodies of water like Lake Tambo where the Aetas live on fishing & backyard farming. On the side of Pampanga & San Marcelino, some quarry the sand for industrial use.
But the biggest thing that happened after the eruption is ecotourism. Tourists flock here to see Lake Pinatubo, a caldera formed from the volcano’s collapsed summit.
It can be accessed from Botolan in Zambales side but the trail in Capas, Tarlac is much easier & has more facilities. The expedition takes visitors on a brute ride on 4-wheel drive vehicles, crossing through vast dusty deserts & shallow rivers.
It is followed by a 7-kilometer trek on wide wilderness of hardened lahar mountains, gushing streams, gullies & ravines. Atop, a beautiful summit awaits persevering tourists----a live volcano crater wallowing in deep hues of green & walled by panoramic peaks.
Mt. Pinatubo is the sacred abode of Apo na Malyari, the Aetas’ pagan diety. Stories of native elders tell that the eruption was the wrath of Apo in punishment of man’s desecration of nature.
But whether its reasons for exploding was of the supernatural kind or earth’s natural movement, it tells us that no one stands mighty when nature releases its fury. Its beauty that we enjoy today is actually a reminder that behind all those wonderful landscapes are stories of nature’s madness.
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Published: January 2018
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