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13 lut 2019 · Pyroclastic flows known as lahars easily overran the slopes of Pinatubo, engulfing gullies as deep as 200 meters. The Aeta tribes that lived on the slopes lost their entire world. The mountain and centuries-old forests they knew were wiped out and replaced by a barren and unfriendly place.
19 cze 2022 · The FVR Megadike, touted to be Pampanga’s last defense against lahar, has endured since being built 26 years ago.
6 lis 2014 · Lahars are rapid flows of mud–rock slurries that can occur without warning and catastrophically impact areas more than 100 km downstream of source volcanoes.
After the eruption image from July 1991 (really just a brown and gray mess under a few puffy clouds), a bright purple-pink lahar appears downstream on the Pasig-Potrero River. The sediments are redistributed over time, until the October 1994 image shows a larger change to the river.
Several smaller lahars washed through the Clark Air Base, flowing across the base in enormously powerful sheets, slamming into buildings and scattering cars. Nearly every bridge within 30 km (19 mi) of Mount Pinatubo was destroyed. Several lowland towns were flooded or partially buried in mud.
7 gru 2021 · Lahars are rapid flows composed of water and volcaniclastic sediments, which have the potential to impact residential buildings and critical infrastructure as well as to disrupt critical services, especially in the absence of hazard-based land-use planning.
19 cze 2022 · BACOLOR, PAMPANGA—Alex Pascua has settled back in the middle of the FVR Megadike, touted to be Pampanga’s last defense against lahar. The 55-year-old farmer is aware that he lives, in his own words, within a catch basin of lahar (rapidly flowing mixture of rock debris and water from a volcano) from Mt. Pinatubo that erupted 31 years ago on ...
