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The security office at Clark International Airport in Pampanga, the Philippines, is dwarfed by a cloud of ashes during a secondary explosion from Mount Pinatubo. The explosion was caused by rainwater touching hot volcanic debris along the slope of the volcano. The former U.S. military facility was vacated when Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991.

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