How far has the eruption of Mount Pinatubo helped eliminate all risks from future eruptions?

In many countries, eruptions have caused great loss of life, displaced large numbers of people and wildlife, induced short-term climate perturbations, and affected worldwide investments and international relations. Hazardous volcanic activity will continue to occur, and the threat to lives and property is increasing with the growth in population and development near volcanoes, and the increase in national and international air traffic over volcanic regions. However with the help of volcanologists and the profound use of technology it enables us to predict future eruptions which mimimises all damages. Mount Pinatubo is an example of an eruption which had been predicted and prepared for and thus helped eliminate some problems from developing and has helped other countires cope and prepare for forthcoming eruptions. Volcanic eruptions create hazardous conditions, which severely affect people and human infrastructure, near the volcano, in downstream valleys, and thousands of miles away. Evacuation of the population at risk had been the concern of local authorities as early as April 1991 when the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) declared a 6-mile-radius danger zone around the volcano. PHIVOLCS, jointly with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), had conducted intensive studies and monitoring of the volcano’s activity from which it forecast and declared an imminent eruption and issued early warnings to the communities at risk. Among the first to have evacuated were the indigenous Aeta highlanders who had lived on the slopes of the volcano. About 20,000 in population, the Aetas had been safely evacuated before the eruption. People from the lowlands heeded also the warnings and fled to safer distance from the volcano. Also, more than 15,000 American