Enviornmental Dangers/Benefits

The surrounding flatter areas, of Mt. Pinatubo, has an abundant rainfall of almost 4 meters annually, provided by the monsoon, climate and the fertile volcanic soils provide excellent conditions for agriculture. After the eruption of 1991, there were large amouts of severe damage, communities, buildings, and roads. Houses were either damaged or destroyed. The roads were destroyed by pyroclastic flows and lahars. The cost of repairing the damage from the 1991 eruption was 3.8 billion pesos. Pinatubo has a very large amount of lava and ash that is ejected when it erupts, Mass amouts of aerosols and dust are projected into the stratosphere. Also Sulfur dioxide oxidised in the atmosphere to produce an array of sulfuric acid droplets, which slowly spread throughout the atmosphere, post eruption.