Volcanologist Jenni Barclay joins WIRED to answer the internet’s lava-hot questions about volcanoes. How do volcanoes cause lightning? What would happen if you fell into a volcano? What do volcanologists study day-to-day? Are there any super volcanoes in the world overdue for an eruption? Why does Iceland have so many active volcanoes? These questions and many more are answered on Volcano Support.
Jenni Barclay is a professor at The University of Bristol
Director: Anna O’Donohue
Director of Photography: James Fox
Editor: Philip Anderson
Expert: Jenni Barclay
Producer: Efrat Kashai
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer
Camera Operator: Neill Francis
Sound Mixer: Mark Cheffins
Production Assistant: Jack Haynes
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Ron Douglas; Jason Malizia
Assistant Editor: Andy Morell
0:00 Volcano Support
0:10 As in THE Mt. Vesuvius
1:16 Volcanoes: Why?
1:45 Blue lava in Indonesia
2:22 Icelandic volcanoes
3:06 What would you say…you do here?
5:16 Favorite volcanoes—go!
6:16 How are tourists standing so relaxed near live volcanoes?
7:05 Where is the biggest volcano?
8:18 SUPERVOLCANO
9:05 Shape Of You (Volcano Version)
9:50 The longest continuous volcanic eruption
10:26 Which country has the most volcanoes?
10:56 Super volcano overdue for an eruption?
11:36 How volcanoes can cause tsunamis
12:18 Ugh it’s right on the tip of my tongue…
13:06 How volcanoes can cause lightning
13:34 Why do volcanoes become inactive?
14:07 [bubbling noises]
14:34 The first volcano
15:09 Chat, is Earth getting bigger y/n?
15:57 How does volcanic ash stop flights?
17:00 Do volcanoes communicate with one another?
17:40 [Jay-Z voice] You crazy for this one, Jeff Johnson
18:19 The Ring of Fire
19:00 Erupt vs. Ooze
20:30 But where does it come from?
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@ActiveAngel2010
September 28, 2024 at 8:49 am
Q: What are the deepest, and shallowest, magma chambers? And how does their depth relate to the thickness of the earths crust in those areas?
@cineturon
September 28, 2024 at 8:52 am
Youtube showing me the teachers I wish I had in school 30 years ago …
@AvishkaPerera-f4x
September 28, 2024 at 8:52 am
🤝🙌🇱🇰😌
@cineturon
September 28, 2024 at 8:56 am
I’ve hiked an Indonesian volcanic mountain called Rinjani, few months back, and it was mind blowing. It consisted of a huge ancient volcanic rim, with a lake within, and a smaller active volcano in the middle of the lake!
@the-chow-hall
September 28, 2024 at 9:18 am
Dear video editor, Jenni Barclay is right about Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea but you’ve shown us an image of DIAMOND HEAD, not even on the same island smh
@ismailsultan110
September 28, 2024 at 9:56 am
constructive and destructive
@Evitaschannel
September 28, 2024 at 10:42 am
Is there a visual difference in mountains vs volcanic mountains? Like if I look at a mountainrange with one inactive volcano could I spot it?
@FearsomeVoid
September 28, 2024 at 10:45 am
It’s exciting to exlore volcanos.
@rebeccamcnutt5142
September 28, 2024 at 10:49 am
12:20 My daughter is 8 and loves Minecraft. It BLEW HER MIND when I showed her a piece I have in my rock collection. I guess she didn’t realize it’s real. 😆
@blanchefaux6016
September 28, 2024 at 11:29 am
Those vids is what youtube was always meant for
@spriggansiedeutsch6817
September 28, 2024 at 11:40 am
The time stamp titles are hilarious 😂
@helikos1
September 28, 2024 at 11:55 am
I like these video but I cannot stand some of the people asking the questions. Case in point 1:18, what a bellend.
@helikos1
September 28, 2024 at 12:50 pm
16:55 As a student pilot I’m familiar with BA flight 009. All engines failed due to ash in the intakes. FYI, the plane landed safety and no one was injured.
@tristan4386
September 28, 2024 at 1:05 pm
some of these questions trigger me, it’s like they cannot comprehend how important volcanologists are, like bro I’m glad they do what they do, I ain’t tryn’a end up like Pompeii
@cgarofani
September 28, 2024 at 1:05 pm
“this is volcano support”
Me, a volcano enthusiast alone in my living room: “YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
@jgourdo
September 28, 2024 at 1:17 pm
7:17 That is NOT Maunaloa people…
@OZMus
September 28, 2024 at 2:38 pm
Love the obsidian
@mara3842
September 28, 2024 at 3:26 pm
The way she talks like Durin makes me happy xD
@jonlouis4263
September 28, 2024 at 3:44 pm
Thanks for this. Very interesting and has made me a little more educated.
@NoelBode
September 28, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Sorry did you say A THOUSAND CUBIC KILOMETERS of material??? Like, 1000 x 1000 x 1000 KILOMETERS??
@lizsmith247
September 28, 2024 at 5:56 pm
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE consider doing this with a Speleologist aka: cave expert, such as Hazel Barton or Patricia Kambesis!!
@HashBrownNiijiDayz
September 28, 2024 at 6:46 pm
Hmm about strato and shield valcanoes. How could we tell the diffrence between a true shield or a strato that blew of the top into a shield and just havent been active enough to go back strato.. Or does that never happen?
@mordinsolus161
September 28, 2024 at 8:03 pm
great expert! sympathic, competent, able to explain complicated stuff easy to understand, overall just a pleasure to listen to. thx
@MindETMuch
September 28, 2024 at 8:52 pm
Miss Steph Mueller is my new spirit animal !
@CaraVerde
September 29, 2024 at 12:08 am
Someone missed the “how obsidians can kill zombies while steels can’t?” question.
@bin4ry_d3struct0r
September 29, 2024 at 1:12 am
Aya-fialia-kul
@arzx3336
September 29, 2024 at 1:13 am
looove her explanation 😂❤
@redflamearrow7113
September 29, 2024 at 1:28 am
Did you need to earn an MA and a doctorate to be considered a volcanologist?
@bixbysnyder-00
September 29, 2024 at 2:59 am
This video assured me and terrified me at the same time
@waldorfstatler3129
September 29, 2024 at 3:36 am
It’s not so much Vesuvius that people are worried about but the Campi Flegrei caldera on the other side of Naples which is showing signs of erupting any day now. The land around Pozzuoli and Baia bay is rising and earthquakes are increasing. The local government are playing it down because that area relies on tourism but the vulcanologists are very concerned as a few million will perish if that volcano erupts and the noxious plume effects would be felt over Europe. Indeed, it would cause a volcanic winter for a year or so!
@rachelann9362
September 29, 2024 at 3:46 am
I don’t know if it’s pronounced the right way, but I imagine it took many cuts to get Eyjafjallajökull to sound no naturally fluid
@penguinlim
September 29, 2024 at 4:51 pm
certainly wasn’t correct at all, but it was quite fluid!
@MotoHikes
September 29, 2024 at 5:50 am
I’m at a juncture in life where I am studying an environmental science degree and getting close to having to choose my field of study – I’m currently torn between ecology and geology and this video isn’t helping because volcanoes are so interesting and cool >_
@MrKirby365
September 29, 2024 at 6:25 am
This is a really stupid question but if heat rises why is the earth’s core so hot… I mean my little rat brain gets extreme pressure extreme heat… but why doesn’t all the heat in the erthas core just rise to the surface… or is it? And it just takes a looooong time?
@mll1208
September 29, 2024 at 8:12 am
How about our beloved Arthur’s Seat?
@Llyd_ApDicta
September 29, 2024 at 8:47 am
The question around @7:05 could also consider volcanoes not on Earth and then Olympus Mons on Mars would be the biggest volcano.
@bridgettegregory
September 29, 2024 at 10:02 am
White Parkways
@FrankBatistaElJibaro
September 29, 2024 at 10:11 am
Enjoying the accent. I like the way she says mateeriel.
@egisantoso949
September 29, 2024 at 11:25 am
Indonesia 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩land of volcanoes
@TomHoseason
September 29, 2024 at 11:40 am
Jenni was one of the absolute best lecturers I have ever had the privilege of being taught by. Hugely knowledgeable, with boundless energy and enthusiasm. I recently started a geoscience PhD in no small part because I wanted to emulate the passion people like Jenni showed for her science day in and day out. She was a big inspiration to me (even though I decided not to pursue volcanology. Sorry, Jenni!).
@TomHardy-y3g
September 29, 2024 at 12:29 pm
An informative video, but having the expert read the questions written by illiterate trash is just terrible.
@BirrellPenelope-t4k
September 29, 2024 at 12:45 pm
Brendon Fort
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@JustMe-ks8qc
September 29, 2024 at 4:34 pm
Hang on- pumice? So you’re telling me my mum used to scrub her feet with volcano rock?
@AntoniaOcampo-r5z
September 29, 2024 at 5:14 pm
Verlie Passage
@katego370
September 29, 2024 at 6:29 pm
This woman is such a great teacher! I want a part 2.
5:03 guys, is this real? Not photoshopped?
@ange5673
September 29, 2024 at 6:36 pm
I’m surprised Campi Flegrei in Italy wasn’t mentioned.
@nzsmithsi
September 29, 2024 at 7:42 pm
As someone who lives the crater of a super volcano Lake Taupo I’m not worried about an eruption
@genepozniak
September 29, 2024 at 8:57 pm
Really garbage answer to the original supervolcano question. Didn’t even mention WHEN the last Yellowstone eruption was. 🙄 And ARE there any others in the world?!
@AludraEltaninAltair
September 30, 2024 at 6:57 am
I do feel a bit clickbaited. I was hoping there would be an answer as to whether “overdue” for a super eruption was actually a thing.
@haraldlund9261
September 30, 2024 at 8:07 am
The three latest caldera forming eruptions at Yellowstone are currently dated at 630 000, 1,3 and 2,1 million years ago. I don’t think her estimate of every 300 000 years on average is correct. Globally speaking, super eruptions are considered to occur once every 100 000 years.
@Moraenil
September 30, 2024 at 5:23 pm
Yeah, I was expecting more about it, especially since a few months ago, Old Faithful suddenly spewed ash for a day and the ground around it lifted by about 5 inches. I think her answer on timing was thrown off by the fact that it’s normally about every 100,000 ish years, BUT it’s also around 150,000 years overdue if I’m remembering the numbers right. So, in this case, there’s a difference between how often it normally goes off, and when it went off last. And my favorite volcano is the Yellowstone Supervolcano.
@cmelle
September 29, 2024 at 9:25 pm
the image of volcanic ash flying into an airplane propeller and turning back into a form of magma when you’re thousands of feet in the air is kinda gnarly, if you, yknow, weren’t going to plummet to your death kinda way
@katekramer7679
September 29, 2024 at 9:28 pm
She has the perfect personality for this video series – informed and educational, plus cheeky and entertaining. I want part 2!
@eructationlyrique
September 29, 2024 at 10:53 pm
Why didn’t the map showing the ring of fire have New-Zealand on it
@nnonotnow
September 30, 2024 at 7:33 am
Sorry you were left out kiwi
@shaunneal9981
September 30, 2024 at 10:07 am
New Zealand is often left off world maps and was most recently discussed after the Olympics opening ceremony where they were also left off.
@eructationlyrique
September 30, 2024 at 1:54 pm
@@nnonotnow not a kiwi, just a concerned citizen
@sabrinasummers4814
September 29, 2024 at 11:05 pm
Wow this lady is the champion of reading tweets lol. Also love the accent and this was super cool. Thanks for the great info!
@mckenziewoyak9638
September 29, 2024 at 11:21 pm
so earth pimples
@ohotnitza
September 30, 2024 at 12:08 am
Some of the Cascades are active. St.helens last blew in 1981, for instance
@gromit9322
September 30, 2024 at 12:43 am
Serene Russell better not come to New Zealand!
@minirock000
September 30, 2024 at 1:32 am
Since we are less dense than rock if you jump into lava you will skitter around on the surface as if you spit on a griddle and smell even worse.
@snowysmile9082
September 30, 2024 at 4:31 am
Interestingly, volcanoes are responsible for most of the mass extinction in earth’s history
@Witchhouseexotica
September 30, 2024 at 5:26 am
“A little rude!!”
…”I like to look at rocks” 😂😂😂
@ProximaCentauri88
September 30, 2024 at 8:12 am
My favorite volcanoes are Kilimanjaro, Mayon, Fiji, Ol Doinyo Lengai, and Krakatoa.
@Lia-wl8zr
September 30, 2024 at 8:28 am
this is the first time i heard how to read that iceland volcano
@ParkerNoyes-e3l
September 30, 2024 at 8:34 am
Christop Mountain
@nikitachaykin6774
September 30, 2024 at 10:13 am
So Volcanoes are just giant pimples?
@NorbertoSharpsteen-n3m
September 30, 2024 at 10:30 am
Lueilwitz Park
@Seriksy
September 30, 2024 at 12:35 pm
Yellowstone is overdue though, but it could still take another thousand, ten thousand, or a hundred thousand years before it erupts again
@timberry1135
September 30, 2024 at 1:01 pm
No it is not. Overdue is a media construct. Volcanos dont follow any real time table
@krismaturker6709
September 30, 2024 at 1:11 pm
3:20 THATS CALLED MINERAL!
@Vnzkb
September 30, 2024 at 3:07 pm
0:55
@Kozu604
September 30, 2024 at 3:38 pm
She was my professor many years ago, an energetic and engaging presenter for sure but you’d have an easier time beseeching the gods for support than getting her to help you with anything. Also her published papers at that time were not good. She’s better suited to this sort of thing.
@monterazee1579
September 30, 2024 at 5:31 pm
Volcanologist: Mauna Loa
WIRED: Backside of diamond head cause people definitely wouldn’t notice
@cloggedaorta
September 30, 2024 at 7:27 pm
At 14:24 sadly that’s not at all what I would’ve meant by the question. Thankfully the answer is simple, a person would most likely cause the lava lake to really gush out and explode violently at that one site where they fell. All the water in our bodies submerged I lava too quickly makes us very explode-y
@DecisiveNemesis
September 30, 2024 at 8:56 pm
7:17 Uh, that’s not Mauna Loa guys. That’s Diamond Head, which isn’t even a volcano or on the same island as Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea. Please be a little more careful about sourcing your footage in the future WIRED.
@vulcanhumor
September 30, 2024 at 9:04 pm
“What makes a volcano a supervolcano?”
“PRESENTATION!”
@ammosophobia
September 30, 2024 at 9:16 pm
I thought this was Karen Allen.
@rebeccagoris1855
September 30, 2024 at 9:53 pm
Loved this!
@FNLNFNLN
September 30, 2024 at 11:06 pm
The colors and lighting on that Ring of Fire map at ~18:30 makes it look like Japan doesn’t exist.
@noahcrow1897
October 1, 2024 at 2:25 am
Well.. the BIGGEST volcano is probably the one on Mars…. bigger than most us states
@lohikarhu734
October 1, 2024 at 6:10 am
I just love your “Swiss” accent…at least for any Swiss living north of Hadrian’s Wall.
@lohikarhu734
October 1, 2024 at 6:43 am
But, isn’t it true that Yellowstone’s last “big one” was, indeed, about 300,000 years ago? Now, we’re not talking about “alarm clock” eruption, but, in geological terms, we’re close to within an hour, or less, of midnight?
@Serenity_Dee
October 1, 2024 at 9:45 am
21:27 Yeah, to expand on that, once you get past a certain depth, it’s all molten rock, but the magma of volcanoes isn’t the mantle just coming to the surface.
@sassyspice613
October 1, 2024 at 11:18 am
I thought Yellowstone would be the biggest explosion?
@thehimself4056
October 1, 2024 at 1:09 pm
It would be interesting to live through several super volcanos go off simultaneously. I’m sure money won’t matter much after that.
@ysj1024
October 1, 2024 at 1:25 pm
do i know some facts about volcanoes? yes. did i watch the whole video all the way through? also yes
@WooShell
October 1, 2024 at 2:21 pm
1400 volcanoes?! That’s absolutely wild.. if I had to make a guess, I’d have said there’s about 20 globally. But I guess it’s only so very few that make it into the news because “it has been smoking for a hundred years” isn’t really newsworthy.
@zorryduschmojang1040
October 1, 2024 at 2:52 pm
Lugn, lugn, om några (många) miljoner år så finns det inga vulkaner.
@davewade30
October 1, 2024 at 2:52 pm
“Very difficult to survive for very long at all.”???
You mean “You absolutely would die within a matter of seconds?”
@adamsteineke4661
October 1, 2024 at 4:32 pm
Amazing and kudos to Jenni for her pronunciations of all those names!
@carolyna4484
October 1, 2024 at 4:43 pm
Everyone ignores mountains that are really volcanoes…till they erupt. Yellowstone sitting there thinking “not my time…yet”
No flights in and out of LA when that happens.
@katharinecarmichael7759
October 1, 2024 at 5:02 pm
Yes! It IS over due
@ssu7653
October 1, 2024 at 5:12 pm
11:30 almost like your doing politics, answer without giving any answer…
If the normal time between erruptions is 300 000 year, and it was 300 000+ years since the last one. Then it would qualify as “due” or “overdue” depending on how much longer since last…
@angelfrmabov32697
October 1, 2024 at 5:33 pm
in less than one minute, Jenni put to rest a decade of anxiety and dread about the Yellowstone super volcano. Thanks Jenni!
@ericfielding2540
October 1, 2024 at 7:58 pm
Great answers by an enthusiastic volcanologist!
@dlerious77
October 1, 2024 at 8:28 pm
Great questions and amazing professional and articulate answers. Love these wired vids
@dougberrett8094
October 1, 2024 at 11:15 pm
I thought Wah Wah Springs was the biggest super eruption.
@meesalikeu
October 1, 2024 at 11:18 pm
nothing about volcanos on other moons? io? cryovolcanos? underwater volcanos? mid
@olober729
October 1, 2024 at 11:23 pm
14:29 what a gentle way of saying you’d be burned alive instantaneously 😂
@guaip
October 1, 2024 at 11:52 pm
I want an ice cream that tastes like her accent sounds.
@owenjackson2390
October 1, 2024 at 11:54 pm
8:01 she’s kinda wrong there. Many supervolcanoes have erupted in living memory but not anything severe enough to cause significant damage
@BrianMcInnis87
October 2, 2024 at 12:03 am
11:22 She doesn’t answer the question, which was whether any supervolcanoes are due for a major eruption. In the case of Yellowstone, it’s been about 660 millennia since its last major blast, and that one happened about 800 millennia after the previous. So the answer would seem to be more or less yes.
@steffidas4785
October 2, 2024 at 12:05 am
🙄🤨
@kycutecool5891
October 2, 2024 at 1:08 am
“Why do we have volcanoes”
“What do volcanologists do”
😂
@ijchua
October 2, 2024 at 2:41 am
Isn’t it spelled as vulcanologist?
@Wut3225
October 2, 2024 at 4:30 am
No
@thefinewino
October 2, 2024 at 5:56 am
That’s illogical, Captain
@Lunar994
October 2, 2024 at 4:26 am
Love her accent
@gfsvc
October 2, 2024 at 5:17 am
Does volcanology include volcanoes on other planetary bodies? Like I’m pretty sure I remember hearing that there’s ice volcanoes on one of the moons of jupiter, and if I remember correctly mars’ mt olympus is an extinct volcano. Is there a scientific field called like ‘cosmic volcanology’ or something?
@devinecatlady
October 2, 2024 at 5:45 am
Absolutely fascinating and explained very clearly.
@jaadotech
October 2, 2024 at 6:18 am
Live long and prosper 🖖
@cindysmith5104
October 2, 2024 at 6:21 am
Does the Atlantic have a ring of fire like the Pacific? Or any of the sea’s? It looks so awesome.
@cassoIa
October 2, 2024 at 7:17 am
I’m baked af rn and when you said my name during this I perked up lmao
This was entertaining
@UniversityOfBristol
October 2, 2024 at 7:23 am
Thank you Professor Barclay for answering our burning questions 🌋
@thespicemelange.1
October 2, 2024 at 8:11 am
Is nobody teaching this in school anymore? A lot of these questions are common knowledge for me.
@sop2510
October 2, 2024 at 9:17 am
Volcanoes are Earth’s pimples.
@goatcheese4me
October 2, 2024 at 9:53 am
These videos demonstrate both the intelligence of humanity and the stupidity of people posting in social media. I’m not referring to people asking questions, but moreover how they’re asking them. It’s like they have to pair a question with something that they think makes them sound hip.
@savannahcarter3450
October 2, 2024 at 12:28 pm
Note for editor: When she was explaining tall volcanos in Hawaii, you showed Diamond Head, not Mauna Loa. Diamond Head crater is a dormant volcano, and has not erupted for thousands of years.
@yellowcatmonkey
October 2, 2024 at 1:54 pm
what a woman 💖🙈 thank you, wired, for inviting this beautiful person 🌻✨ enjoyed every second of it 💯💕
@MrQgips
October 2, 2024 at 6:16 pm
Mt Yasur has been erupting for over 800 years. Even if that’s wrong, Captain Cook witnessed it erupting in the 1700s… Also the LARGEST AND BIGGEST eruption we know if is Mt Toba in Indonesia. It erupted over 13000 cubic kilometers of material. So imagine 13000 Mt St Helens erupting all at the same time. Tambora is the biggest one in living history.
@TalkingSoup
October 2, 2024 at 7:53 pm
technically the longest continuous eruption would have been the volcanation that formed the siberian traps and caused the Permian extinction event, which would have been erupting continuously for something like fifty thousand years
@elizabethroberts6215
October 2, 2024 at 9:01 pm
……of all my fave subjects’ on Geology, Volcanology is my most important one! An absolutely fascinating subject! Studied Geomorphology & Climatology for Grades 11 & 12, whetted my appetite, & couldn’t get enough of it. Am reading 6 books’ currently………gotta keep the little grey cells’ active…………
@Masterfighterx
October 2, 2024 at 10:58 pm
Isn’t Yellowstone about 60k years overdue to its 300k year eruption?
@ino9138
October 3, 2024 at 2:09 am
*discussing volcano.
Indonesia : “Assalamualikum”
@leaves6813
October 3, 2024 at 2:36 am
I live near the Tseax Cone in BC, Canada!
@fadel_rama
October 3, 2024 at 4:18 am
People said general post British accent sound intelligent, nope it was Scottish accent, because you know this people sound not just book smart but also street smart as well.
@davinlaroche3029
October 3, 2024 at 4:25 am
Another problem with ash and jet engines is that ash is abrasive.
@SinnerChrono
October 3, 2024 at 5:11 am
Peoples ignorance about volcanoes is staggering. But i spend each week learning about new volcanoes. Good test for me that i was able to answer each of the questions.
@12bigredd
October 3, 2024 at 4:14 pm
🙂 the answer is…. yes and no lol but when one is ready to go pop even the hardest of hardline right wingers won’t be able to say….. “i didn’t see it” lol
@dad_jokes_4ever226
October 3, 2024 at 6:08 pm
The longest continuous eruption I believe was documented in 1978 in “Debbie Does Dallas “
@feynstein1004
October 5, 2024 at 4:09 pm
OMG 😂😂😂
@oofbruh2607
October 3, 2024 at 7:31 pm
I guess I’m a volcano nerd I knew most of this lmao
@cjsheu
October 4, 2024 at 12:00 am
18:30 such a weird map projection
@Willyferguson
October 4, 2024 at 2:53 am
18:30 On the map, missing New Zealand, how rude lol
@vonk5463
October 4, 2024 at 4:59 am
“What I spend a lot of my time doing is : I look at rocks”
The dirt people…
@caylebmladenovic3348
October 4, 2024 at 8:22 am
Any kiwis gonna mention no New Zealand on the map
@NikoBellic04
October 4, 2024 at 12:38 pm
She looks exactly like I inagined a Volanologist would look like.
@PaulG.x
October 4, 2024 at 3:46 pm
Vesuvius Meh
Auckland is built on an active volcanic field of approximately 53 volcanoes , the last of which erupted 500 years ago.
Taupō super Volcano has not erupted for approximately 1,800 years , it historically has major eruptions every thousand years or so (over a timeline of last 10,000 years of eruptions).
This volcano has produced two of the world’s most powerful eruptions in geologically recent times
@toweronthehill
October 4, 2024 at 8:55 pm
This was great! Watched the whole thing out of the blue but learned some cool stuff! Thank you!
@DCS_World_Japan
October 5, 2024 at 12:18 am
“What, my hotel is next to an active volcano?!!” do people not know how to do basic internet searches? Jeeze.
@TailRunnerOPSpec
October 5, 2024 at 3:15 am
Wait, a Supervolcano isn’t categorized by its super eruption, but instead by the capability to produce a supereruption, usually by the capacity of its caldera…? Yes? Maybe they got confused with the questioning individual’s somewhat dual-lined question?
@spulwasser
October 5, 2024 at 11:00 am
My favourite volcanos are the “Chaîne des Puys”, because that’s where I moved recently, plus they look really cool and don’t seem to be at risk of killing me any time soon😅😊
@Mdavid856
October 5, 2024 at 12:52 pm
Liquid hot “magma”
@errantwinds-up8uu
October 5, 2024 at 2:37 pm
I got the chance to see one of the Hawaiian volcanos erupt as a child. Not like the blast, but the lava flowing down to the sea. We were far away but drove to a safe distance to see the lava flow. Amazing memory.
@feynstein1004
October 5, 2024 at 3:56 pm
Any relation to the renowned geologist Swarles Barclay?
@laattardo
October 5, 2024 at 7:49 pm
I can tell you, i will not be going anywhere near Italy until Campi settles down.
@natatatt
October 5, 2024 at 10:26 pm
Shout out to whoever did the timestamp labels for this one. You can tell they had fun with it.
@AtarahDerek
October 6, 2024 at 1:15 am
Hello, volcano support? My volcano is stuck on loading. I’ve tried turning it off and on again, but it just gets stuck on the loading screen. I checked my connection and it seems to be working alright. I thought maybe I was trying to upload too big of a magma file (I was going for 10 cubic gigs), but now I can’t access the drive to fix it.
@variabell3326
October 6, 2024 at 1:43 am
I love how every time Mt. Tambora comes up, it’s mentioned that the explosion was heard as far away as Australia… given our states are <150km apart (on land). Some of Australia is closer to Mt. Tambora than some of Indonesia.
@alicebringhurst1339
October 6, 2024 at 3:07 am
Volcanologist seems like a fake word
@mickgatz214
October 6, 2024 at 5:23 am
Oh NO!, another Volcanoe EXPERT! 😂
@kihunipunk
October 6, 2024 at 7:38 am
Volcanologists have THE COOLEST job EVER.
@richardprescott6322
October 6, 2024 at 8:30 am
Whilst in the military in Naples a few friends got a little bit drunk on wine in the sun.
Decided to go for a walk up Vesuvvius.
Half way up we were invited into a restaurant – all the restaurants were shut for winter.
It was, a family event to celebrate a grandmother.
They must known how daft our mission was as we were caught up by by a lad in a car – his grandmother told us take us to the top.
Given food and more wine.
Being very drunk and stupid we thought it a good idea to go down into the crater for a better look.
I got some volcanic ash and rocks, still warm and put them in my pockets.
Fortunately a warden saw us and gave us a right mouthful in Italian.
He then drove us down into town and dropped us off at a nearby train station.
We really must have looked out of place.
Minutes later we were surrounded by men in civilian clothing pointing handguns at us.
They were Italian drug squad officers.
They thought they had got a great bust on finding the bags of ash etc I had on me.
The look of disgust on their faces on realising what it was. 😂
I love Naples and Italy ❤
I still have the ash and rocks.
@ddr8993
October 6, 2024 at 1:00 pm
How do volcanologists utilize AI? Hopefully we can predict more accurately when volcanoes will erupt. Maybe even control, or atleast delay their eruption in order to save lives. Or even harness the energy produced during eruptions.
@bettyswallocks6411
October 6, 2024 at 1:35 pm
“…splendid detection devices…” I now have an image of peacocks and mantis shrimps being used as seismographs stuck in my noggin.
@thomasdvorak5853
October 6, 2024 at 1:56 pm
Awesome! Thanks!
@BramptonHughes
October 6, 2024 at 2:07 pm
We only cared about one question
@Holeyguagaamoley
October 6, 2024 at 2:13 pm
I don’t know about the super volcano definition, one thousand million cubic kilometres of earth would be a cube of material the size of the Gulf of Mexico and 1,000 kms deep, that would cause the Earth itself to collapse.
@herbieschwartz9246
October 6, 2024 at 6:19 pm
How would you like to visit Olympus Mons ?
@pdruiz2005
October 6, 2024 at 9:08 pm
That question about volcanologists is so ignorant. Every volcano is an individual, with oddities and quirks. Just like every human body. So, almost exactly like medical doctors, volcanologists study these individual volcanoes to see how they tick and, more importantly, to predict when they will blow up destructively. They’re the first line of defense when a volcano acts up and people need to evacuate the regions around volcanoes.
@PeterJPickles
October 6, 2024 at 9:08 pm
Well you learn a little something every day 🙂