Go to ground.news/GeologyHub to stay up to date on the world’s news. Subscribe through my link for 40% off unlimited access this month. This video was solely sponsored by the product and company, Ground News! I really, really hope that Awu does not end up erupting. And, if we are unlucky enough to soon see it erupt, I hope that its eruption is only moderate in size rather than significant/highly explosive. Awu's eruptions have historically reached as much as low end VEI 5.
That amount of uplift plus the fact that Awu sits on an island with a handful of calderas is really alarming. Awu itself might have a 4.5 km wide caldera. Can Awu produce a VEI 6 eruption at least in the far future?
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I've not heard of Awu before, but anytime a volcano with that kind of magma starts acting up at the equator.....that's no bueno for anyone. That amount of uplift is insane.
Yeah the combination with strong seismic signatures of magma movement while gas emissions cease is what makes it really alarming as it means a plug has likely formed. I had heard of Awu back when the nearby Ruang volcano had a low end VEI 5 Plinian eruption in April as they are both part of the same Sangihe volcanic arc, a fairly unique modern example of double subduction which happens but generally doesn't last long geologically speaking. Apparently all the major volcanoes along that arc were in a heightened state of unrest back in April so the arc is likely in a state of heightened melt generation and the situation at Awu has continued to build in pressure. I wonder if Awu will go Plinian too?
@@Dragrath1 Exactly my thought. I don't want to be anywhere near when that plug bursts. Several metres uplift already, I expect more than a cubic km of material being ejected.
What kind of pressures must be generated in order to lift an entire mountain top 6 meters higher? I'm assuming when that erupts it will be spectacular.
In non-news, Kilauea did not erupt and Hurricane Hone passed Hawaii as a tropical storm. No kaiju have been reported. However, Hurricane Gilma is now projected to pass to the north, so the situation remains uncertain.
Man, the Sangihe arc is like a perfect combination of bad. Lots of small islands with frequent large volcanic eruptions and lots of small villages throughout, in a relatively poor region.
The region is poor cause the islands get a reset every once in a while. It would be better to evacuate the volcanic islands and give the people a chance to live elsewhere, but where?
@@donaldduck830 Indonesia already tried relocating people via the transmigration program, which was a disaster. Maybe you could evacuate some of them to northern Sulawesi but really there isn't really any great options other than just living with the volcanoes and dealing with the threat. There are other barriers to development other than just the volcanoes anyways, plenty of highly volcanically active regions were able to develop.
Well, the Big Island of Hawai’i surprised a lot of reporters there for Hurricane Hone with the amount of strong earthquakes and that was before Hurricane Hone started dumping 8”-12” of heavy rains with more coming this Thursday from Hurricane Gilma. The local news is saying that the ground on the Big Island is now over saturated with water and I wonder if this is going to speed things up or slow things down as far as volcanic eruptions is concerned. Residents are in a “wait n see” mode right now. One thing for sure, the rain falling on the lava fields caused fog so thick that many roads had to be closed for lack of visibility. 😢
Theoretically, if the ground is highly saturated it could increase the possibility of a (mildly) explosive eruption. By how much, I don't know (I'm not a geologist).
If Awu goes off, it will be horrific. You have everything to be worried about. A lava dome blocking the vent, highly viscous magma, high pressure, and a very loaded history. Yikes. You'd better be a long way away from this one.
Since the glacier around Grimsvotn recently released a large glaicial flood to the south, does this glaicial flood’s existence make it more likely that a small subglacial eruption was the culprit for the increased meltwater? Or is it definitely not connected due to originating from a different source?
The knowledge you infuse to the eruptions and historical information is so fascinating. I wonder how much do places like indonesia release this information to the locals to give them fair warnings of a possible eruption? Thank you for all the info. I’m going to check out the Ground too. Have a great day.
Awu's situation seems to definitely be untenable in the long term as with that uplift and quakes being mixed with gas emission cessation yikes is right. I have to wonder given the activity earlier this year at the nearby Ruang volcano if that underlying slab might be feeding in high rates of volatile enrichment/melt generation right now. On the note of Etna since I learned about its history and magma composition I have a much more healthy respect for the threat it poses, basaltic trachyandesite after all is the same kind of lava which was involved in Tambora's 1815 ultraplinian eruption though at least as long as Etna remains highly active we probably don't need to worry about that kind of eruption from Etna, the volcano is reaching the kind of towering heights which can lead to conduits becoming blocked. The Icelandic volcano is certainly continuing to throw curveballs what with that second fissure formation event which has lasted for days as a fissure system building spatter ramparts. If it keeps moving North the eruption might cause some problems potentially cutting off the main road though it has a wide area to fill first.
i read that there was a volcanic winter from the Krakatora eruption. The ash blocked the sun and affected weather around the world and crops. This could happen again since so many volcanoes are erupting.
Thank you. I have a geological question...What is methenhydrate and does it exist thousands of feet below the north and south poles buried under ice and permafrost???
It’s properly termed “methane hydrates”. It’s basically ice that contains trapped methane gas, in a form that is only stable under cold temperature and high pressure. If the temperatures increase, the methane gas can escape, sometimes all at once like a soda bottle that gets shaken up.
@@DavidZuleger Potentially, yes. There is a valid concern about one form called a clathrate, found underwater at moderate depths on the continental shelves. These clathrates are right at the edge of stability, so even a very small warming of the ocean waters could potentially be enough trigger the phase change that releases the trapped gases. A large gas release would dump a lot of methane (a very potent greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere and make things even worse than what we’re already facing.
@@RoxnDox yup...just as I thought. But I have a scientific way to solve this warming. Use tonnes of dry ice and liquid nitrogen. Dump this stuff and if you used enough..it could "refreeze" everything. It's a wild idea but it could work.
OK maybe I have to much of a certain brainrot but that mountain name made me laugh because it sounded as Uwu even if it is written with an A and is a dangerous volcano
I'll keep saying it - with all due respect - when you say 'currently' and 'as of' a date in the same sentence, it makes you sound imprecise at best, and addled at worst. Those two phrases don't go together. Pick one or the other.
@@Just_Sara The earth's climate has been changing for MILLIONS of years, well before humans evolved. And don't start with the rate, NO ONE can prove what the rate of change was in the past, NO ONE.
I'd qe look at physics and past timeline and ice core data. We can see earth has been almost sin waving in climate. It gets warmer then cooler with a consistent pattern. HOWEVER! we have been in a slight warming part of wave since last ice age and we hit the peak before little ice age which is the down wards curve of temp which did happen as it follows a pattern. However we humans came in started burning coal and fossil fuels and deforestation and now co2 levels are many time historic levels and temp in high average. Reason why co2 and temp don't corelate in same speed because of the oceans absorbing much of the excess heat. In reality the amount of co2 in atmosphere should have us at plus 7 or 10 degrees celcius
@@ROV_Rc2023 News Flash!! If the level of CO2 should have it WOULD have. Obviously, the CO2 scare mongers/scam artists/corrupt politicians don't want us to think about that.
