Finding Mio

The majestic Mt. Pinatubo Crater Lake Mt. Pinatubo is an active volcano. Its eruptive and disruptive history was unknown to most, not until it decided to “wake up” sometime March or April of 1991, two months before that fateful eruption of June 15. The volcano's eruption on June 15, 1991, was “ … the second-largest eruption of the 20th century, second to the 1912 eruption of Novarupta in the Alaska Peninsula .” (Wikipedia) To make matters worse, the eruption was made more catastrophic “ … by the arrival of Typhoon Diding , bringing a lethal messy mix of ash and rain to towns and cities surrounding the volcano. Surrounding areas were severely damaged by pyroclastic surges , ash falls, and subsequently, by the flooding lahars caused by rainwater re-mobilizing earlier volcanic deposits. This caused extensive destruction to infrastructure and changed river systems for years after the eruption.” – Wikipedia But like a phoenix, Mt. Pinatubo has risen to become one of