June 14, 2016: Opening of the Pinatubo Museum

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June 14, 2016: Opening of the Pinatubo Museum, and book launching of Our Common Fault: Stories of Loss and Survival in the July 16, 1990 Earthquake

5:30 p.m., Don Juan Building, Holy Angel University

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HAU to open Pinatubo Museum

Holy Angel University will inaugurate the Pinatubo Museum on June 14, eve of the 25th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo.

The museum will be housed at the University's Center for Kapampangan Studies and will be open to public, according to Robby Tantingco, director of the Center.

The museum will feature a mural timeline of the history of Mt. Pinatubo, a mural sculpture by Kapampangan artist Arnel Garcia, and various exhibits executed by researcher-artist Joel Mallari.

"The museum is our memorial to the 1991 event that profoundly altered the personal and collective destinies of Kapampangans," Tantingco said.

"What Kapampangans experienced has no parallel in world history, except maybe the ten plagues of Egypt in the Old Testament," Tantingco said. "We had an eruption, earthquakes, lahars, typhoon, rain of sand, ash and rocks, day turning into night--all at the same time! And it went on for the next five years."

The opening of the museum will coincide with the launching of the book Our Common Fault: Stories of Loss and Survival in the July 16, 1990 Earthquake, authored by Lia T. Pangilinan and published by the Center for Kapampangan Studies.

"Last year was the 25th anniversary of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that left a swath of destruction from Central Luzon all the way up to Northern Luzon," Tantingco said. "The book is our memorial to all those who suffered or died in that earthquake."

The earthquake led to a series of geological events that caused Pinatubo's eruption one year later, Tantingco said.

For inquiries, please contact kapampangancenter@gmail.com or 0999 959 0601.

HAU to honor quake victims with new book

Holy Angel University will launch the book Our Common Fault: Stories of Loss and Survival in the July 16, 1990 Earthquake on June 14, eve of the 25th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo.

The book, which is a collection of personal stories by survivors of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that rocked Central and Northern Luzon in 1990, will be a memorial to the all those affected by the calamity, especially those who lost their lives, according to the book's author, Lia T. Pangilinan.

Pangilinan, a researcher of the University's Center for Kapampangan Studies, travelled to Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya, Pangasinan, Benguet, La Union and other provinces where the Philippine Fault runs through, to interview quake victims.

The book's launching coincides with the opening of the University's Pinatubo Museum.

"The 1990 earthquake and the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo were the one-two punch that nearly knocked us out," Robby Tantingco, Director of the Center for Kapampangan Studies, said. "The book honors the victims and survivors of those twin calamities."

The nation marked the 25th anniversary of the July 16 earthquake last year.

Five years ago, the University published Tantingco's Pinatubo: The Volcano in our Backyard which won the National Book Award (Science category).

It was the 1990 earthquake that caused a series of geological events that led to the eruption the following year.

For inquiries, please contact kapampangancenter@gmail.com or 0999 959 0601.

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