Peeking Inside a Deadly Volcano; Viewing Marapi's Erupting Crater

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  • Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
  • In this video, we are able to peek into the interior of a deadly active volcano; Mount Marapi. By remotely viewing its erupting Verbeek Crater we can not only witness the growth of a viscous lava dome but also the frequent explosions it produces. Join me as I, a geologst, analyze video footage of the Mount Marapi stratovolcano.
    Thumbnail Photo Credit: Cropped image taken from Explore West Sumatra's video, • GUNUNG MARAPI SUMATRA ... . Used with Permission.
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    Channel link: / @explorewestsumatra
    Source footage video link: • GUNUNG MARAPI SUMATRA ...
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    0:00 Inside Mt. Marapi's Crater
    0:43 Background Information
    1:41 Ash Composition
    2:39 Verbeek Crater
    3:54 Lava Viscosity

Комментарии • 69

  • @dianesmith8183
    @dianesmith8183 4 месяца назад +36

    Peeking into the peak...always interesting to watch & learn! Thank you much respect.

  • @ThatOpalGuy
    @ThatOpalGuy 4 месяца назад +25

    HORTA!
    great video. great drone footage, thanks to them for allowing us to see the footage.

  • @StuffandThings_
    @StuffandThings_ 4 месяца назад +9

    Its amazing how complex even a simple straightforward subduction zone stratovolcano can be when analyzing the details

  • @kenbrady119
    @kenbrady119 4 месяца назад +17

    Amazing footage of a currently active volcano. We are so lucky to be able to observe so much. Thank you!

    • @GeologyHub
      @GeologyHub  4 месяца назад +5

      I agree. Even a helicopter flyover of the volcano wouldn’t be safe. I am truly glad about the ease of access commercial drones have created, allowing for remote viewing of volcanoes which by any other direct method would be far more dangerous.

    • @donaldduck830
      @donaldduck830 4 месяца назад +2

      @@GeologyHub Yes. I remember that a few years back, during the Iceland eruptions, several drones crashed and were destroyed by hot air or lava bombs. And the rotors and everything get destroyed by ash and corrosive gases. Besides the fact that a pilot would need oxygen like in a fighterjet, any exposed skin could be burned if he got too close.
      Btw: Kudos for your flights in the other videos, it is certainly difficult to fly the drone and narrate over that and coordinate everything. You got my respect.

  • @gavinchaston8105
    @gavinchaston8105 4 месяца назад +4

    Seeing the expansion and contraction of the plug was surreal, it definitely looked like conscious movement to my animal brain!

  • @MihzvolWuriar
    @MihzvolWuriar 4 месяца назад +11

    Damn, what an epic footage, cheers to the people who did it and thank you for bringing it to us.
    Video Idea, if there isn't already, could make a video about all the types of lava in the chart and name a volcano which erupts it?
    I do know how most of them erupts but I definitely don't know them all, and I'd love too, and since this channel is by far the best volcano source in the internet, I'm more confident that you would explain it better than anyone else would.
    Cheers mate.

    • @whiteknightcat
      @whiteknightcat 4 месяца назад

      I think he's already done that. I know he's done a video with examples of the different types of eruptions, and I seem to recall a video where he went into detail about the composition chart.

  • @rogergadley9965
    @rogergadley9965 4 месяца назад +10

    You are THE resource for geologic information! I watch your videos every day. I’m a retired journalist from the Pacific Northwest and did quite a number of stories about (and within) Mt. Saint Helens during and after its catastrophic eruption, so I’m interested in your “coverage” of volcanos. (I was also a copy editor. In the title headline you used “peaking,” reach the height or the top. Or, did you mean to look into, look at, “peeking?”

  • @DrakoCrowley
    @DrakoCrowley 4 месяца назад +3

    Wow, that's really neat! Thanks for explaining, and kudos to ExploreWestSumatra for graciously sharing his video.

  • @Yezpahr
    @Yezpahr 4 месяца назад +11

    3:54 That looks so epic.

  • @suzettebavier4412
    @suzettebavier4412 4 месяца назад +4

    Thank you, once again, GH 👍

  • @xwiick
    @xwiick 4 месяца назад +4

    Thanks for all of your hard work man!

  • @mbvoelker8448
    @mbvoelker8448 4 месяца назад +2

    Fascinating!

  • @Me3stR
    @Me3stR 4 месяца назад +2

    These are great pictures! It is so interesting to see water ravines get formed on still erupting volcanos

  • @davesalisbury1820
    @davesalisbury1820 4 месяца назад +2

    Cool footage and GREAT explanation! Thank You!

  • @ecurewitz
    @ecurewitz 4 месяца назад +2

    This was awesome. Thank you

  • @tthappyrock368
    @tthappyrock368 4 месяца назад +1

    Thank you for the update! Thank you also to the videographer who let you use their footage! The comparisons you used were super helpful!

  • @MrBillyh21
    @MrBillyh21 4 месяца назад +2

    Truly excellent

  • @Mike.Smth2112
    @Mike.Smth2112 4 месяца назад +3

    These videos are incredibly rare at stratovolcanoes. There is a helicopter video of Mt Shishaldin in the Aleutian Islands that is similarly amazing.
    The video is titled “Shishaldin volcano, Alaska” it’s one of the most amazing volcano videos I’ve ever seen, you can see right down the vent.

  • @maggiekelso997
    @maggiekelso997 4 месяца назад +2

    Absolutely amazing video. Kudos to the drone pirate and thank you for your careful analysis of it. 😊

  • @stormforce171
    @stormforce171 4 месяца назад +10

    Verbeek Crater named after the Dutch geologist Rogier Verbeek who witnessed and documented the famous Krakatoa eruption of 1883?

    • @AlkautsarPA
      @AlkautsarPA 4 месяца назад

      Yep, he has done a lot of research about Indonesia's geology, especially on volcanoes

  • @scillyautomatic
    @scillyautomatic 4 месяца назад +4

    Great video! Thanks! The footage makes me think of the incredible footage shot by Werner Herzog. No drones in those days. (Or maybe it was footage from Katia & Maurice Kraft.)

  • @Astrofrank
    @Astrofrank 4 месяца назад +2

    Informative as usual (and getting a like as usual). Great footage, there are not many drone shots of "grey" volcanoes. One of the few making them is Martin Biermeier, also on RUclips. He is restricted to Stromboli, but accepts higher risks for the drone.

  • @gillesgomez3091
    @gillesgomez3091 4 месяца назад +1

    Thank you for this amazing video. It's pretty rare to have an opportunity to have a look inside an active volcano's crater! Besides, your explanations were (as usual) very clear and easy to understand for someone like me, who knows almost nothing about volcanoes but is willing to learn.

  • @deborahferguson1163
    @deborahferguson1163 4 месяца назад +1

    Very cool!! Awesome to have access to this drone footage!!!

  • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
    @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx 4 месяца назад +1

    Thanks as always! This is an interesting look at the crater!

  • @chasemclain6235
    @chasemclain6235 4 месяца назад +1

    Awesome video!

  • @whiteknightcat
    @whiteknightcat 4 месяца назад +2

    Neato!

  • @donaldduck830
    @donaldduck830 4 месяца назад +1

    Thank you very much for giving us the sense of scale at 1:05
    I thought this was probably bigger than i expected, but it is ten times bigger than that.

  • @LeonTroutskiunplugged
    @LeonTroutskiunplugged 4 месяца назад +1

    that was Awesome!

  • @ben4life988
    @ben4life988 4 месяца назад +3

    It's always beautiful yet scary to look in a volcanic crater that is active

  • @irishpsalteri
    @irishpsalteri 4 месяца назад +1

    Thanks for this.

  • @HONGKELDONGKEL1888
    @HONGKELDONGKEL1888 4 месяца назад +3

    Merapi, Marapi, Sorikmarapi, all mean pretty much the same thing if Im not mistaken "smoking / burning mountain"... All of them very fascinating.

  • @marshallpeters1437
    @marshallpeters1437 4 месяца назад +6

    Talk about some incredible footage. Great work from that man ! Doing God's work out here.

  • @zoomcenter
    @zoomcenter 4 месяца назад +2

    So cool volcano

  • @alexgonzalez6115
    @alexgonzalez6115 4 месяца назад +6

    Could you make a video covering the Colli Albani volcano which is just outside Rome?

    • @Vesuviusisking
      @Vesuviusisking 4 месяца назад +3

      I also want Alban hills

    • @davidcranstone9044
      @davidcranstone9044 4 месяца назад

      I agree. Presumably a major eruption would be disastrous given how close it is to Rome, but I don't know if that is a serious possibility. A video would be good.

  • @Vesuviusisking
    @Vesuviusisking 4 месяца назад +4

    I love Indonesia volcanoes

  • @christopherrosindale3175
    @christopherrosindale3175 4 месяца назад +3

    This footage evokes the description of Krakatoa's Perbuwatan crater recorded by Dutch scientist Schurmann after his visit to it in May 1883, 3 months before the final, catastrophic eruption on August 26-27. Now it is much clearer what he saw after watching this.
    Is the Verbeek crater on Marapi named after Roger Verbeek, the Dutch mining engineer who researched and authored the famous report on Krakatoa's 1883 eruption?

  • @viiiderekae
    @viiiderekae 4 месяца назад

    This volcano is quite close to where i live. But on about 200 miles north east

  • @jantjarks7946
    @jantjarks7946 4 месяца назад +1

    Playing peekaboo with a volcano.
    🤔😉

  • @coyotemontana4558
    @coyotemontana4558 4 месяца назад

    I didn't know there's a lava dome in the crater of Mount Marapi.

  • @13Nagash13
    @13Nagash13 4 месяца назад +2

    This drone footage leads me to another question. Taking scientific samples at active sites, be it fresh lava samples or gas testing is inherently dangerous. Using drones to visually record sites is amazing, but have scientists started using drones to collect samples in places it is just unsafe to send humans? Is it possible to use drones to carry monitoring sensors up to risky sites?

    • @davidcranstone9044
      @davidcranstone9044 4 месяца назад

      Those are very interesting questions - I hope GH will answer them, either here or in another video.

  • @augustolobo2280
    @augustolobo2280 4 месяца назад

    I have video suggestions. Why not talk about those big calderas in western sumatra?

  • @richardunruh4035
    @richardunruh4035 4 месяца назад +1

    Can the drone drop a 1L water bottle into the lave dome? That would be interesting...

    • @whiteknightcat
      @whiteknightcat 4 месяца назад +4

      How would it be interesting. The lava dome was about 30 METERS across, a liter bottle of water is a few tens of centimeters. You'd likely not even see the tiny puff of steam from the flash vaporization with all the gas emissions going on.

  • @AtarahDerek
    @AtarahDerek 4 месяца назад

    Sure, lava lakes are neat, but have you considered...lava briskets?

  • @Spectrecontrol
    @Spectrecontrol 4 месяца назад +3

    *peeking

  • @MrDan708
    @MrDan708 4 месяца назад

    Great place to toast marshmallows.

  • @thelazy0ne
    @thelazy0ne 4 месяца назад

    Ok but how far is it from Hunga Tonga Hahaha?

  • @creightondaniels7748
    @creightondaniels7748 4 месяца назад

    Your Funny😅

  • @larrybuzbee7344
    @larrybuzbee7344 4 месяца назад +2

    Unless those who were "peaking" were doing so under the climactic denouement of an intense LSD experience the were "peeking", not "peaking".
    😂

  • @garysanchez4601
    @garysanchez4601 7 дней назад

    Love the videos, highly informative, but that narrator has got to go.

  • @kento7899
    @kento7899 4 месяца назад

    Known as a volcanian eruption.
    Did someone actually get paid to make up that word?

    • @petuniasevan
      @petuniasevan 4 месяца назад +2

      Vulcanian eruption, actually. Named after the Italian volcano Vulcano (where all subsequent volcanoes get their generic name!) which in turn is named for Vulcan, the Roman version of the Greek Hephaestus, god of the forge.
      Vulcano itself has a certain type of eruption which is the type that in other volcanoes is referred to as "Vulcanian", just as eruptions that are similar to the explosive lava fountains on Stromboli are referred to as "Strombolian".

  • @philleasthouse3791
    @philleasthouse3791 4 месяца назад

    How about a little Grade 3 spelling test: Peak = summit. Peek = look or glance or examine. Try getting someone to proof read who can actually spell and who understands the intent of the sentence!!!!

    • @davidcranstone9044
      @davidcranstone9044 4 месяца назад

      Where is the mistake? I haven't spotted any incorrect usage. Some commenters are enjoying the play on words between the two (which is hardly a mistake), and it wouldn't surprise me if there is the odd genuine mistake among the comments. But that is hardly GH's responsibility (nor such a big deal, at least in my opinion).

  • @Pa.PatriotProspecting
    @Pa.PatriotProspecting 4 месяца назад +2

    Fascinating!