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Will Pinatubo open the year with a big bang? Swarm with more than 800 earthquakes hits below the dangerous stratovolcano in the Philippines

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The cataclysmic Pinatubo eruption of 1991. Picture via USGS

Mount Pinatubo is most notorious for its VEI-6 eruption on June 15, 1991, the second-largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century after the 1912 eruption of Novarupta in Alaska. But will the dangerous volcano open the year with a bang? Philvocs is currently watching Pinatubo after a series containing around 826 small earthquakes hit below the volcano.

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