This Week in Volcanoes; More Eruptions Likely in the Galapagos 

The situation with Ubinas is most likely an ongoing long term threat. The issue is not the entire volcano collapsing but rather a section of its oversteepened crater wall. This is a hazard which could remain for as long as decades (or perhaps even longer).

Thank you for the update. It is so good to have recent geological events broken down to be easily understood.I have learned so much over the last 8 Mos.

Congrats on 2.9 million on your hunga tunga video!!! I've been with you for about a year and watched your channel grow. It's great to see my favorite RU-vidr thrive!

Another complication with Ubinas is the very nature of an edifice collapse, which is sudden depressurization of super-heated water far below the collapse, which creates St. Helens style explosions and lahars.

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Really great channel friend, glad I stumbled upon it.

Fabulous coverage. Thank you

Your videos are fascinating and a stark reminder that Mother Nature still holds the deed to this planet.

Nice video, thanks geology hub

This was great! Thanks for your work

Thank you for a knowledgeable and interesting discussion regarding these volcanoes.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory posted a satellite photo on their twitter account a couple of days ago showing the lava flow from the Pavlof volcano. As of Jan. 19 the lava flow extended 1.3 km from the volcano summit and a lahar extending 4.4 km. The nearest populated town is 48 km from the volcano, but the lava flow is in the opposite direction so the community is not likely to be at risk at the current activity level. The Aviation Watch level is Orange. Just passing that along, FWIW.

In case the Ubinas volcano would collapse, I hope there would be a video about it. I want to see how a volcano transits from a stratovolcano to a collapsed caldera in real life.

Great information thank you for the videos

I really enjoy the regular volcano news! Keep it up!

So interesting how Krakatoa is erupting! Is there any correlation of these equatorial eruptions? Is it just me or is it just coincidence? Thank you for this incredible information!!

This is great! Keep it coming.

Best information and knowledge of volcano news events very impressed 💜🙏take care

Thank you again. You describe things well and with graphs, photos and satellite 🛰 data.

Can you pls do a video of the advantages of volcanoes like mineral deposits, rich soil, tourism, etc. They are dangerous and sometime deadly but there are also good things that come from them.

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Hello, I really enjoy your videos and I think your channel is a very valuable resource. I have a question about phreatic eruptions. It doesn't make intuitive sense to me that the intrusion of water into the ground followed by heating of that water to steam would result in a powerful explosion. Rather, I would imagine that as water percolated downwards it would heat up enough to sporadically boil and increase the pressure pushing upwards, preventing further intrusion of water. Similarly, in a case where ground water was already present and magma were to intrude upwards into the water table, I would still not expect an explosion of significance to occur because rock and soil is a very poor thermal conductor. Instead, relatively small amounts of water in the soil in direct contact with the magma intrusion would heat and boil to steam over the course of several hours, producing an increase in steam pressure that would push nearby water away from the intrusion, effectively forming an insulating layer of mixed soil and pressurized steam. In effect, the surface conditions would not change much aside from a measurable heaving of the landscape and the formation of features like geysers and hot springs. My intuition is that phreatic eruptions occur only *after* a typical explosive eruption is triggered. To explain what I mean, take the recent Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'Apai explosion as an example. It's very clear that mere presence of ground water was not the trigger of the explosion, since the volcano itself is submerged under the ocean. Rather, it makes more sense to me that what occurred was actually "dry" explosive eruption, caused by a sudden catastrophic failure of the rock ceiling over the magma chamber, which released a massive amount of pressurized and superheated gas, which propelled hot rock and ash material upwards. This "dry" explosion would have instantly interacted with the layer of wet soils and sea water above the magma chamber, and this high-speed impingement of superheated material into the water is what allowed for a very high rate of heat transfer into a large volume of water, which is what caused several millions of cubic meters of water to flash to steam in the phreatic explosion. The "dry" eruption which occurred had most of its thermal energy absorbed by that large mass of water, converting it to steam, and amplifying the explosive power of the eruption dramatically. Of course, the time between the "dry" eruption and the phreatic explosion would have been so short as to be considered almost simultaneous, but I think it's still important to make the distinction between the two processes. Again however, this is all just my own intuition based on my own knowledge about these geologic processes. I would greatly appreciate your thoughts on this topic. Thank you and keep up the good work!

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Santa Maria Volcano in Guatemala is 6 months away from having erupted for 100 straight years

Thanks so much for the video and info. I wish All Human and Animals the Best.

I find Turrialba fascinating since it's not near the ocean, or that it has a crater lake, but instead is blasting away only due to groundwater. But I don't understand how the groundwater is actually interacting with the magma without a crater lake. Wait, I went and looked the information, there's a few small crater lakes, and the seep downward through dissolve rocks and hit the hot stuff. There's also lot hydrothermal systems, so, it reminds of Yellowstone with it's groundwater interactions. Cool. Wait, I mean, "That's hot", (Paris Hilton)

Thank you for this information. Krakatoa? Did not know this. Whew. Keep up the good work, please. God bless

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Thank You.

I never knew Krakatoa is still active. Is the new phase of the eruptions is from underwater or still on going from the collapse cone?

Are there more volcanoes erupting right now than usual or am I just paying better attention due to your channel? Great videos! I look forward to seeing new upcoming videos.

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Hey good day!!! New subscriber was wondering if you could give an update on Caribbean volcanoes cause few of them are in unrest

Found you because of the Tonga eruption and for some reason it only occurred to me on this video to subscribe! Volcanoes are just too damn interesting to miss

Thank you

Keep doing this

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Maybe stupid question but would it ever make sense to actively try to collapse it in advance like it is done with avalanches in mountains?

So Ubinas might pull a Mt.St.Helens on us in the future?

Could you please do a video about trapps/traps?

Boy the Ring of Fire is in a serious mood

The ubinas volcano sounds familiar to the semeru/unzen collapses.

We seem to manage other things why cant we drill a vent hole toward the ocean so when there iis an explosion it goes away from people and adds to the island and vent holes can release pressure in a volume more controllable

I enjoy how you say, “pyroclastic flow”

Can you make a video about Bromo, Batur, Ball's Pyramid and Ngorongoro? They all have calderas and I'm curious on how big of an eruption that they created.

What VEI do you think a collapsing eruption from Ubinas would be?

You should do a video on Yasur volcano.

Been binge watching.... How many videos until I become a Volcanologist?

Isn't the Pacaya volcano in Guatemala in an ongoing eruption since Feb of 2021?

I'm sorry, but that lawn damage was done by a vole, not a mole. They are both rodent lawn pests, but moles generally go deeper, and surface in individual mounds. Voles make tunnels just below the surface, and sometimes along the surface at the base of tall grass or thatch.

Fascinating. The dichotomy. The beauty and danger of volcanoes, of living on a molten planer. Ironically, if the core of Earth wasn't molten, it would be unlikely that we would have life on Earth. The dichotomy of dichotomies! Cheers!

Liquid Hot Mag-ma! We just need sharks with freaking lasers!

Don’t remember if it was Junior or Senior High School, I had a Teacher who taught a Geology Course. He said if the Sea Levels were to rise even a little bit, we would see an increase in Earthquakes, and Volcano activity, due to the extra weight being shifted on the Earth.

There's tremors swarms close to mt. Ok on Iceland do you know by chance what is happening there? Swarms going on about 3 weeks from 1-3 magnitude 40 quakes daily.

So if Ubinas collapses could it cause a plinian eruption? I have heard that some plinian eruptions of various volcanoes were triggered by collapses

Can you do an episode about Mt. Matavanu in Western Samoa?

Would you say that these simultaneous activities are normal or up normal compared to previous years ?

Krakatoa is not in full erupt mode. We'd all know it if it was! It's been in 'Unrest' mode for ages - some ash emissions.

Volcanoes like tofua should have more data trackers, as it is a dangerous volcano

And this is why I've repeatedly said to tag your video location as the closest city to the volcano you are talking about so locals will see it as a suggested video

So did davidovf chill out? I thought it was likely or somewhat that an eruption might happen at it for the 1st time in 10k years.

Is suwanosejima a serious threat? I read about an eruption there yesterday? The island looks like it formed from explosive eruptions and experienced landslides.

YES AND MORE.

Planet X is closing in. Thanks for the detailed report. The number of active & erupting volcanoes today is I believe 400 to 500% greater than in the 1990s.

Hey man, I noticed that White Island from New Zealand was not included in the unrest stuff

Status of Iwo-Jima's uplift?

I'm waiting for Mt.Rainier right here in Washington State because I'm in Tacoma, Washington

Yellowstone and Mt. Fuji?

Thanks for the info!!! Praying for all people and animals to be safe!🙏

I climbed up Mt Vesuvius in 2018 with my wife. It was steaming, any current info on that Volcano erupting? Hundreds of thousands of people live near it.

Better yet a big cork

49 years ago, 23rd of january 1973 the Heimaey eruption began

You know, the more all these volcanoes keep going off like we have lost two pounds of atmospheric air pressure, the more I worry about all of the cascade range and the lull of its inactivity ....especially mt. Saint helens....she seems to be the one with the most tempermeant..but most definitely not the only one, infact I think oregon, which is where I live,has more in the state than California and washington...not 100% sure, but seems were close....

Maybe yellowstone is next 😅

I am curious about GeologyHubs thoughts on an imminent mini-ice age due (in part) to current volcanic activity! I can't seem to find anywhere on the internet that discusses the average number of volcananic eruptions for any given years in the past versus today. Let alone the quantities of atmospheric ash released per year and their effect on the weather if any. Thanks!

Birthing pains wonder how Hawaii will fare aloha all!

I just had a dream that Mount Hood erupted, and destroyed Seattle 😳

Your work should not rely on donations, but rather it should be a funded as global service initiative. Regular PR videos like these made available to the world could save thousands of lives. A RU-vid channel can be used for cooperation, communication, and coordination. If we plan to safely occupy this planet for an extended period, we must act like a global community. Keeping the global community aware of the changes to and dangers of the earth is just common sense and we need to develop that as a species. I’m only dismayed because I think your work should be recognized as a regular critical global resource that the world should feel blind if it didn’t have… like if all the weather radars in the world went down. As a species we deserve reliable factual information like this, and we shouldn’t have to rely on a nutcase that thinks the Sun makes volcanoes erupt to tell us that there has been an earthquake swarm in a volcanically active area. Great videos, but I hope this short global geologic video summary can be upgraded into something more like a global service rather than just a crowd funded RU-vid passion project. Why can’t 7+ billion of us get a regular video summary updates of the geologic happenings on the rock we call home? I’m screaming into the wind here, but this effort seems a bit too important to just fund with a fan base. The supposedly international collaborative websites are a mess too. This format cuts the clutter. Please keep up the good work for us. Thank you.

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"Coast-A-Rica"? Nvm, great update as always! Keep up the good work!

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? A topic? What's going on now with the methane gas leak(s) in Los Angeles that were big news before Covid (if memory is serving). Are the leaks closed now, and what is the change to the geology of the area, any remarks about effects of leaking, methane, whatever GeologyHubee kinds of things. It's a huge man made disaster, and I wonder if it is changing the geology. And what is/ was the geology before the methane leak. Whatever. I do remember also, seeing a couple of items about it is terribly polluting. Does methane in the atmosphere make volcanoes more active? How is this big leak possibly affecting nearby calderas/ volcanic fields in the western US if at all. I'm racking my mind thinking of angles. How does is compare with the Gate of Hell feature in Turkmenistan?

little nitpick: Krakatoa doesnt exist anymore, it was destroyed in 1883 eruption. what exist now is "Anak Krakatoa". its island emerged from Krakatoa caldera in 1927.

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What if yellow stone blows soon.......

The entire gulf of Mexico?

Doesnt look good with all the volcanoes coming back to life. Yellowstone might b next which means we all dead especially in north america

Love your videos. Such great information. If you pause the video at 2:07 I swear I see a man's face in the middle to the right.

wow someone should contact that town in peru mayor something id skidadadle dupe de due out of there.

Last week we visited to Kilauea volcano: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yaiaqMh1yYQ.html

Just curious how your narration is that the same how you talk?

There’s a volcano in Australia showing signs of unrest? Where? We only have one volcano in Australia, and it’s been dormant for millennia!

2022 the year of FIRE🔥

Krakatoa is erupting agian? I thought it was dead from the 2018 collapse

First!

Winter is coming 😜

Question, did anyone see the video allegedly there is a missile explodes as the same time as the Tonga volcano erupts.

A lot of “I’s” always being said . Just saying