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Where - Phillipines
When - June 1991
Why - Destructive Plate Margin
Phillipines and Eurasion plate moving at 6.8 cm a year
Phillipines subducts Eurasion
Pressure built up inside the mantle
Magma forced to rise into magama chamber
Impacts - 200 000 evacuated
1000s homeless - refugee camps -> communal wash rooms -> spread diseases
Loss of crops and animals -> starvation
Solutions - Tiltmeters - predict which way volcano will erupt
Satalites - pinpoint where the eruption will occur
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