Love how the info about the new steam vent at Taal was called in from someone who just hapoens to live/work in the area. That shows that even regular Joes like me can catch the first sight of cool events.
When I went to the top of Taal prior to it's most recent violent eruption, there were several places outside of the caldera where steam was coming out of the ground on the way up.
Ooh ... I wouldn't go to the top of a volcano that's behaving in such an unpredictable way. Lucky that you didn't experience any problems. When I look at the maps of that area, I guess the city of Tagaytay on the outer caldera rim would perhaps a good place for me watching and it should be kinda safe too. Be careful 🖐👴
@@OpaSpielt When I went it, about 5 years ago, it was about a year prior to the big eruption, there was a village on the central caldera island and a tourist industry where you could take horse ride to the rim. It was very interesting. Looking down, there was tremendous fumarole activity on the inside of the caldera rim at certain concentrated places. It's very interesting to look at before and after pictures.
@@alexrouth4341 Yeah, nevertheless it's risky. There's a UA-camr who made this trip too, with taking a bath in the warm waters of the central lake. I saw that video. He obviously was enjoying it. It was also prior to the eruption you mentioned. But it was just one week before the eruption. He really was shocked later about how lucky he was. It doesn't matter if you go there one year or one week before the eruption starts. Because you don't know when it starts. 🖐👴
I remember being taught in collage that on avg the sulfur dioxide counteracts eniugh of the co2 that all volcanoes on earth put out lesd emmissions than the state of california so like 1% of us. There I s only 50 erupting at a time and the avg eruption releases like 2x a coal plant. There are over 5000 coal plants alone
Volcano. This is so cool. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)
Climbed to the dukono on Halmahera just a few months ago and now heading to the Philippines. Initially planned to go to the taal, just found out it is not possible to climb it after 2020 eruption. Still we will go, but I am little bit concerned 😅
Your insights and opinions would be appreciated on the terrible drilling disaster occurring, possibly escalating, in East Java, also referred to as the Sidoarjo Mud Flow. There is some background on it in Wikipedia, and six days ago a news feature on it included interviews with geologists: Did an Australian linked mining firm trigger a natural disaster? | 60 Minutes Australia
Rueapehu may be restless , so to is Lake Taupo , it's crater is still getting earthquakes , plus geonet has said recently that "slow slip quakes" are moving faster than had been thought .
@@snarky_user In some languages the word for volcano would be literally translated as 'fire mountain'. IIRC, 'Mer' and 'Mar' are two geographic areas in Indonesia. I can imagine dropping the 'mountain' part of 'fire mountain' in common speech, if that's how the language works. The English word volcano comes from the volcano in Italy called Vulcano, a reference to Vulcan, the Roman god if the forge. I suppose that people once believed that mountain was where Vulcan worked.
Another question I have is this... (A question I have had since High School) Can you drill into a volcano to release pressure? I heard recently there are scientists doing this in Italy somewhere. I don't know if that's something you are interested in looking into but I thought I would throw it out there.
Given what has been learned in recent decades about the rapid mobilization of magma it looks to be an absolutely terrible idea since the phase of rock in a volcanoes magma chamber depends on both pressure and temperature notably the reduction of pressure can result in material shifting on the pressure axis of the associated PT phase diagram causing rock which was previously solid to partially molten slush to reliquify in a thermodynamic phase transition. This in terms of an eruption in the context of a large magma chamber would be very very bad as if the "release" is big enough to have a significant effect in any way it could instead lead to explosive decompression of the kind that tends to be associated with Plinian or ultraplinian eruptions. Often such large voluminous eruptions based on petrochemical study are often associated with either the mixing of chemically distinct magmas or the sudden change in pressure within a magmatic system. Thus a rapid drop in pressure within a large magmatic system is exactly the kind of situation you *don't* want to occur, unless you plan is to set off a deadly cataclysm via what might be the most elaborate expensive and destructive suicide attempts in human history. Thankfully I don't believe we are really capable of the kind of venting project that would be needed to actually affect such a system to any real degree as the pressure changes of drilling through kilometers of rock causes the hot rock to flow into and block off the drill hole while the actual drill melts thus they would be unlikely to actually reach the magma chamber. Still its not a good idea to tempt fate that kind of way.
I remember hearing about the 2 types of volcanic earthquakes. A: A sudden "Crack" tremor associated rocks slitting as magma/gasses move around. And B an elongated tremor that indicates pressure building. Like a pipe organ increasing in pitch if a pipe is blocked. Is there truth to this?
Does Merapi mean something in the Indonesian Language that makes it a descriptive name for lots of mountains? Like, green mountain, cloud mountain, loud mountain, etc?
It seems that Mt St Helens went somewhat quiet in the week before the eruption. It would be interesting to know if that can be a sign that a major event is about to occur. Long periods of building activity, with a sudden silence. I'm sure it's far more often that a sudden quiet means nothing at all. I only recently saw the footage shot from directly above the mountain by the people who were flying over in a plane when the initial eruption of St Helens began. Very interesting documentary on Disney+.
Has there been a statistically rigorous analysis (e.g., excluding data from obsolete or limited sensors, etc.) that assessed the alert level system's predictability? Does an alert level of 1 truly indicate low-level activity, or have unexpected eruptions occurred at lower ratings than they 'should' be expected to given the defined risk levels for each rating? Is there a threshold of accuracy somewhere (e.g., eruptions = or > VEI 4 predictable with a high level of confidence but smaller magnitude eruptions not so much)? Don't know much about vulcanism, but am recently quite interested due in no small part to your channel. 👍
Regarding the images of the Taal caldera, I'm sure it's not, but am I seeing a frozen 'lake'? What is the white-ish/blueish body inside of the caldera made of?
@@vesuviussoloshumans he has though he notably stuck to the largely shown to be incomplete shorter standard narrative history of Yellowstone which misses a lot of the context which geochemical analyses paleomagnetic and seismic tomography have revealed about the geology of the west coast of North America. This however really only affects the history prior to the Columbia river flood basalts and the how and why mechanisms for the actual flood basalts. (It neglects evidence from Siletzia and the Yakutat Block which is the other side of the former LIP/oceanic plateau which is currently in the process of subducting/accreting under/onto the Aleutians.
So here is a request... More of a thought but let me go through it... As you are aware Yellowstone is thought to produce between VEI 7 and VEI 8 eruptions each over a 50k year period. Occasionally it produces eruption in the high VEI 6 range (6.75-6.99). Mt. St. Hellens was a very low VEI 6 while Penatubo was a very high VEI 6 (and the most powerful explosion in my lifetime before last year). I was wondering if there has/would be ever been a chain of smaller explosions that can/would equal the explosively of a small Yellowstone and what would that look like. (Say for example every volcano complex in Oregon decided to go at the same week would it do the same amount of damage as a Yellowstone?)
It won’t work. Only from VEI 6 eruptions alter the climate. The major one last year would’ve been VEI 6 and altered the climate if it fully erupted above water in the same force
@@vesuviussoloshumans Even after 2 years, the effects still lingered. As if famines, weather changes and diseases were not enough, it also led to mutation of Cholera bacteria in India because of floods that took place by climatic changes because of Tambora which led to Cholera pandemic of 1818-1820.
@@GeologyHub I don't know if it is volcanic It seems more of a mud geyser along coast allegedly caused by drilling. Reports of 50,000 villagers left homeless
Love how the info about the new steam vent at Taal was called in from someone who just hapoens to live/work in the area. That shows that even regular Joes like me can catch the first sight of cool events.
When I went to the top of Taal prior to it's most recent violent eruption, there were several places outside of the caldera where steam was coming out of the ground on the way up.
Incredible! I'd love to be there!
Be safe!
Ooh ... I wouldn't go to the top of a volcano that's behaving in such an unpredictable way. Lucky that you didn't experience any problems. When I look at the maps of that area, I guess the city of Tagaytay on the outer caldera rim would perhaps a good place for me watching and it should be kinda safe too.
Be careful 🖐👴
@@OpaSpielt When I went it, about 5 years ago, it was about a year prior to the big eruption, there was a village on the central caldera island and a tourist industry where you could take horse ride to the rim. It was very interesting. Looking down, there was tremendous fumarole activity on the inside of the caldera rim at certain concentrated places. It's very interesting to look at before and after pictures.
@@alexrouth4341
Yeah, nevertheless it's risky. There's a UA-camr who made this trip too, with taking a bath in the warm waters of the central lake. I saw that video. He obviously was enjoying it. It was also prior to the eruption you mentioned.
But it was just one week before the eruption. He really was shocked later about how lucky he was.
It doesn't matter if you go there one year or one week before the eruption starts. Because you don't know when it starts.
🖐👴
I never realized how active the Earth was until I found your channel.
hi. this is one of my favorite channels on youtube
Can we get a video talking about the combined emissions from all active volcanos 🌋.
I remember being taught in collage that on avg the sulfur dioxide counteracts eniugh of the co2 that all volcanoes on earth put out lesd emmissions than the state of california so like 1% of us. There I s only 50 erupting at a time and the avg eruption releases like 2x a coal plant. There are over 5000 coal plants alone
I recently read about the oldest known volcanos in Finland. Maybe this would make an interesting video!
Volcano. This is so cool. By the way, I have difficulty communicating because I had a stroke in Broca’s area, the part of the brain that controls speech. 2/8/2021 but I lived again. (My wife helped me compose this.)
Hello! This month is the anniversary of the Heimaey Iceland volcano eruption. Could you please do a video about that ? Thank you.
Climbed to the dukono on Halmahera just a few months ago and now heading to the Philippines. Initially planned to go to the taal, just found out it is not possible to climb it after 2020 eruption. Still we will go, but I am little bit concerned 😅
Your insights and opinions would be appreciated on the terrible drilling disaster occurring, possibly escalating, in East Java, also referred to as the Sidoarjo Mud Flow. There is some background on it in Wikipedia, and six days ago a news feature on it included interviews with geologists: Did an Australian linked mining firm trigger a natural disaster? | 60 Minutes Australia
Watched that. Wow!!! That is horrific. Beware the unintended consequences. What a devastating mess!
Rueapehu may be restless , so to is Lake Taupo , it's crater is still getting earthquakes , plus geonet has said recently that "slow slip quakes" are moving faster than had been thought .
Mucho mucho news & plenty of volcanic activity. Thankyou also. You are a very humble human being i believe. Good on you, @GeologyHub
Live your reminders of definitions
A person would almost begin to think that "api" is the Indonesian suffix for 'volcano.'
Someone in a previous video commented that 'api' is Indonesian for 'fire'.
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 that makes some sense.
@@snarky_user In some languages the word for volcano would be literally translated as 'fire mountain'. IIRC, 'Mer' and 'Mar' are two geographic areas in Indonesia. I can imagine dropping the 'mountain' part of 'fire mountain' in common speech, if that's how the language works. The English word volcano comes from the volcano in Italy called Vulcano, a reference to Vulcan, the Roman god if the forge. I suppose that people once believed that mountain was where Vulcan worked.
Another question I have is this...
(A question I have had since High School)
Can you drill into a volcano to release pressure? I heard recently there are scientists doing this in Italy somewhere. I don't know if that's something you are interested in looking into but I thought I would throw it out there.
Given what has been learned in recent decades about the rapid mobilization of magma it looks to be an absolutely terrible idea since the phase of rock in a volcanoes magma chamber depends on both pressure and temperature notably the reduction of pressure can result in material shifting on the pressure axis of the associated PT phase diagram causing rock which was previously solid to partially molten slush to reliquify in a thermodynamic phase transition.
This in terms of an eruption in the context of a large magma chamber would be very very bad as if the "release" is big enough to have a significant effect in any way it could instead lead to explosive decompression of the kind that tends to be associated with Plinian or ultraplinian eruptions.
Often such large voluminous eruptions based on petrochemical study are often associated with either the mixing of chemically distinct magmas or the sudden change in pressure within a magmatic system.
Thus a rapid drop in pressure within a large magmatic system is exactly the kind of situation you *don't* want to occur, unless you plan is to set off a deadly cataclysm via what might be the most elaborate expensive and destructive suicide attempts in human history.
Thankfully I don't believe we are really capable of the kind of venting project that would be needed to actually affect such a system to any real degree as the pressure changes of drilling through kilometers of rock causes the hot rock to flow into and block off the drill hole while the actual drill melts thus they would be unlikely to actually reach the magma chamber. Still its not a good idea to tempt fate that kind of way.
I remember hearing about the 2 types of volcanic earthquakes. A: A sudden "Crack" tremor associated rocks slitting as magma/gasses move around. And B an elongated tremor that indicates pressure building. Like a pipe organ increasing in pitch if a pipe is blocked.
Is there truth to this?
I love your accurate pronunciation of Ruapehu
👍👍👍
Does Merapi mean something in the Indonesian Language that makes it a descriptive name for lots of mountains? Like, green mountain, cloud mountain, loud mountain, etc?
Per Wikipedia the name means ‘Mountain of Fire’. So, yes. :)
It seems that Mt St Helens went somewhat quiet in the week before the eruption.
It would be interesting to know if that can be a sign that a major event is about to occur. Long periods of building activity, with a sudden silence.
I'm sure it's far more often that a sudden quiet means nothing at all.
I only recently saw the footage shot from directly above the mountain by the people who were flying over in a plane when the initial eruption of St Helens began.
Very interesting documentary on Disney+.
Hey can you leave the lists at the end up longer so we can actually read them? Thanks.
Has there been a statistically rigorous analysis (e.g., excluding data from obsolete or limited sensors, etc.) that assessed the alert level system's predictability? Does an alert level of 1 truly indicate low-level activity, or have unexpected eruptions occurred at lower ratings than they 'should' be expected to given the defined risk levels for each rating? Is there a threshold of accuracy somewhere (e.g., eruptions = or > VEI 4 predictable with a high level of confidence but smaller magnitude eruptions not so much)? Don't know much about vulcanism, but am recently quite interested due in no small part to your channel. 👍
With so many volcanoes you'd think that Indonesia would be a powerhouse in harnessing geothermal energy.
50 years from the Westman Islands eruption in Iceland. We need a video about that 💥🌋
About Taal, one thing is sure though, that thing is building up big time. And we don’t have a clue on how big it would be. But it will be cataclysmic.
Is Easter Island truly an extinct volcanic complex? Cheers.
Be in manila 2/8- I’m going straight there to the hills in north west north via cavite
What is your most interesting Antarctic Volcano. Maybe a video should be done on these 7th continent volcanoes.
Erebus or Deception Island :D
Man, is Taal the same Volcano Island referenced by the HG Wells novel 20,000 Leagues? I think I read were it was kinda based on a real location.
Taal SO2 emissions seem kind of high. 6-8+ million metric tons ? How does this compare to other volcanoes in the region ?
As of PHIVOLCS' recent data, the whole Taal caldera is deflating.
Regarding the images of the Taal caldera, I'm sure it's not, but am I seeing a frozen 'lake'? What is the white-ish/blueish body inside of the caldera made of?
How many volcanoes are there in Africa? And can you do a video on some of them?
Anyone know what’s happening here Cerros singuil volcano and the Apeneca range volcano,seems to have an uptick in activity?
what volcano is erupting in Australia? I wasn’t aware of any.
The very remote antarctic Heard Island volcano belongs to Australia. It's often somewhat active. GH did a video about it not long ago.
I would like to see a video about the history of Yellowstone and it’s super eruptions
@@vesuviussoloshumans he has though he notably stuck to the largely shown to be incomplete shorter standard narrative history of Yellowstone which misses a lot of the context which geochemical analyses paleomagnetic and seismic tomography have revealed about the geology of the west coast of North America. This however really only affects the history prior to the Columbia river flood basalts and the how and why mechanisms for the actual flood basalts.
(It neglects evidence from Siletzia and the Yakutat Block which is the other side of the former LIP/oceanic plateau which is currently in the process of subducting/accreting under/onto the Aleutians.
@@vesuviussoloshumans he has done that several times even if I remember correctly(the later video might have replaced the first I'm not sure)
What about Dallol in Ethiopia as a topic?
F%&#@n awesome for over 3 years & going!! P.S. love iceland
So here is a request... More of a thought but let me go through it...
As you are aware Yellowstone is thought to produce between VEI 7 and VEI 8 eruptions each over a 50k year period. Occasionally it produces eruption in the high VEI 6 range (6.75-6.99).
Mt. St. Hellens was a very low VEI 6 while Penatubo was a very high VEI 6 (and the most powerful explosion in my lifetime before last year).
I was wondering if there has/would be ever been a chain of smaller explosions that can/would equal the explosively of a small Yellowstone and what would that look like.
(Say for example every volcano complex in Oregon decided to go at the same week would it do the same amount of damage as a Yellowstone?)
St Helens was neither a vei 6 nor was Pinatubo a very high vei 6. Saint Helens was a very low vei 5 while Pinatubo was a very low vei 6.
@@vesuviussoloshumans No. It ejected an estimated 4 km³ of tephra. If it would had eject 6km³, then it would had been a high end vei 5.
What is your take on the allegedly man-made mud flow in Sidoarjo Java?
We need that to blow its top n calm down these global warmers
It won’t work. Only from VEI 6 eruptions alter the climate. The major one last year would’ve been VEI 6 and altered the climate if it fully erupted above water in the same force
They want the planet to cool down, so let it happen!
Unfortunately, even large volcanic events have small effects on global temperatures that fade out in a year or two.
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 Small effect? Just look at what "very large volcano" named Mount Tambora did.
@@vesuviussoloshumans Even after 2 years, the effects still lingered. As if famines, weather changes and diseases were not enough, it also led to mutation of Cholera bacteria in India because of floods that took place by climatic changes because of Tambora which led to Cholera pandemic of 1818-1820.
Can you comment on what's going on in Java?
Which volcano are you referencing?
@@GeologyHub I don't know if it is volcanic
It seems more of a mud geyser along coast allegedly caused by drilling.
Reports of 50,000 villagers left homeless
Please learn how to pronounce Taal correctly ... pronounce as 2 syllables .. Ta al
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