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After the explosive eruptions, posing a more serious and lingering threat to life, property and environment were the onslaught of lahars. Within hours after the eruption, heavy rains began to wash deposits of volcanic ash and debris from the slopes down into the surrounding lowlands in giant, fast-moving mudflows.
THE EFFECTS OF MOUNT PINATUBO ERUPTION:
Mount Pinatubo injected about 15 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, where it reacted with water to form a hazy layer of aerosol particles composed primarily of sulfuric acid droplets. Over the course of the next two years strong stratospheric winds spread these aerosol particles around the globe.
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