Cascades Volcanoes: When Sleeping Giants Wake
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For millennia, the Cascade Mountains have stood watch over the Pacific Northwest. Millions of people, attracted by their grandeur, have settled in their shadows. But the slumber of these majestic sentinels is a fitful one and geologists are monitoring their ominous rumblings. Could what they are hearing be a muted warning?
The Cascades are actually a chain of volcanoes part of the infamous Ring of Fire that encircles the Pacific Rim. When Mt. St. Helen's erupted, the Pacific Northwest experienced first hand the staggering power that loomed over them...could it happen again?
Journey with us to the Philippines, Japan and Mexico to discover how other people have survived and suffered alongside their volatile neighbors. As our own mountains rumble and growl from deep within, now is the time to ask: what will we do when our Sleeping Giants Wake?
The Cascades are actually a chain of volcanoes part of the infamous Ring of Fire that encircles the Pacific Rim. When Mt. St. Helen's erupted, the Pacific Northwest experienced first hand the staggering power that loomed over them...could it happen again?
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What about Enumclaw? I lived there from 1955 when I got married to 1966 when my husband got transferred by the telephone company to Kent, Washington. The area of Enumclaw was called Osceola which I found out was called that because it was a "mudflow" from the last time that MT Rainier blew up. When you look at MT Rainier from Auburn where I now live you can see a rock formation on Rainier that looks, to me, like an ELK's Head. I am now 87, as of January 3rd, 2024 and I'm in love with the Internet! It is a wealth of information for free!
Rod Custodio is my grandfather and we are so happy to see him immortalized in this video. Thank you!
I spent 46 days TDY to clark 2 years prior to Pinatubo eruption. My heart broke seeing the area engulfed.
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That is so cool! 💜
@@jvee2901 my son was visiting with his father(retired military) at the time of eruption, & caught one of the only planes that managed to escape before the airport shut down. I was so thankful he made it back home safely. He was 12 or so back then.
To all those complaining about the lack of information on the cascades I suggest finding the geological series from central Washington university. They are all on Washington geology.
@Just Looking I've watched some of his videos more than once!
Absolutely, I have relatives living out in the cascades. They are well aware of these sleeping giants. Key word is “sleeping”. Yes they’re active but not very. Worth keeping an eye on but not worrying about. When they do decide to go nuclear they’ll give you ample warning to get out of way. When it’s all over you come back start again. What else can you do?
Agree. I have State Government publications.
Based on work of higher education in science.
One of which made a comment 70 years ago.
That I'm presently attempting to verify. It
concerned a strong cold draft up out of talus.
Then being walked to survey a karst exposure.
I hope to uncover an entry descent. Me ?
That's what I've done since 1964 with the
National Speleological Society.
cascades volcano are always sleeping and boring
Link please, @DAYBROK3
I grew up 478 miles (as an arrow flies) north of Mt St Helens in BC Canada and when she blew her top, our dog alerted us to the water in our pool sloshing back & forth out of it!
Wells? Valemount? :)
Only problem is an arrow won't fly that far north. It's to cold
The Cascade Mountains are here in relation to the Cascadia Subduction Zone which is about 55 miles off our coast 700 miles down from Vancouver, Canada to Cape Mendocino, California. The Zone last unlocked in 1700 sending a tsunami to Japan [they have a record of it]. MT Saint Helens has erupted more than the rest of the mountains put together the last time was in 1980. I learned this from Nick Zentner a geology professor at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. Yellowstone volcano is over a HOT SPOT like Killowea on the Big Island, Hawaii. The last time Yellowstone "BLEW" it was in Idaho. It is now in Wyoming because of Plate Tectonics. [The movement of the earth plates]
And here I am, living in the Ring of Fire. Alaska, born and raised. I witnessed the Volcano Mt Redoubt blowing up. I was getting up and getting the kids ready for the day. I went to take a shower and when I came out of the shower I was confused! I'm thinking I know that I might have been in the shower for awhile but I haven't been in there all that long!!!! Why in the world 🌎 is it darker now??!? I had no idea what happened. After we figured out what happened I went out to bring in our dogs. Covered up whatever we could. Put pantyhose on the carburetors on our vehicles and placed blankets or whatever around the door jams...... people were picking up ashes and saving them for whatever reason. We didn't live very far away from the volcano! Dang! Something you'd never forget
A real estate agent saying "What about our quality of life, our small town values? t's not just my town." Talk about indefensibly compromised by self interest. I've read several of the recent geologic threat studies. The danger from Mt Rainier is real. Volcanoes don't care about property values.
There should no new building at some places.
In the movie version, he's the bad guy, short-sighted, a bit dim, and greedy. He gets buried in ash before the second reel starts.
That guy was the spitting image of the real estate idiots in the movie Jaws.
So what? Freedom is important to some people, and governments have killed far more people than volcanoes. It's not even close. Humanity is a brief thing, and even more so civilization. We can't stop these things anyway. Might as well live our lives and not worry about slow things like geology. The way the US government in particular is behaving at present there is a good chance that humanity will already be extinct when Mt Rainier eventually erupts anyway, so why worry about it?
My response to the government is that if they want me to worry about volcanoes they should stop behaving like tyrants. Because until they do I will be more worried about them than I am about volcanoes.
Yes you are absolutely right. I live in north west tacoma and recently remodeled my backyard and low and behold I found huge deposits of obscidian huge and huge pumice. No one talks about flying lava landing around and yet I have evidence this has happened and probably will again.
I live close to Mt St Helens and was raising a family when she blew. Watched it from my front yard. Was mass hysteria on the roads and in the stores. Ash all over and supplies could not be brought into our town as everything was shut down and rivers were trashed with debris flow. I would never want to go through it again yet to this day I still live on same block where I did on May 18th 1980 and won't leave.
@@mottthehoople693 How the fuck is that relevant
Don't vote it's all fixed
@@archie7027 Thirst will kill reader after 3 days
if electric-served utilities are lost due to a volcano
and going outside your home would be hazardous.
LadyLightWolf's Video learned to keep essential
stocks at home to survive what she will not flee
from. Go see how long you can last using just
your toilet tank water content. To be relevant.
Me? I reside 50 miles from an active volcano.
And keep three 6 gallon water containers full.
@@sda9995 If you're another unregistered
foreign agent using the internet to swing the 2020 election for USA
Republicans I expected something smarter out of your brain. Okay,
I can get over your displeasure when President Biden is elected by
registered voters, but you might be contacted later. By the House
Committee for Un-American Activities.
@@sda9995 That's idiotic claptrap from a Harvard MBA collecting tens of millions of $$$$ from rich and poor alike and trying to get something going with Trump. We just had what was likely the cleanest election in US history. Trump lost. We had recounts twice everywhere. That's 3 counts, all the same. But lies can't be disproven because they just revise the lies every time! Maybe you need Prevagen and ginko to help your brain?
Nature doesn't give a hoot about how long you've lived there or how skeptical you are of geologic history or predictions. Review the Paradise CA fire and see how long it takes to go from serene tranquility to absolute panic and mayhem.
Nature had nothing to do with the fires. Blame them getting out of hand on environmental wackos and useless newsom.
You are right. It can be 600,000 or 1,300,000 between a super eruption to the next one,- but if it's on a day that you are alive, you will surely panic no matter where you live on the planet!
@@jvee2901 Nature has nothing to do with fires? Ha ha ha ha ha. Did "Q" tell you that?
@E G i guess arson has nothing to do with it. The mismanagement by newsom has nothing to do with it. Environmental wackos stopping the state from cleaning out debri, has nothing to do with it. Lightening is a small problem in commiefornia.
I was living about 200km north of Mt St. Helens when it went off. We heard the explosion. Awesome power.
You were damn lucky the wind took the plume south and east or you all would have been covered
We live 60 miles east of San Francisco Peaks in Arizona...right smack in the center of a 600 volcano field...Sunset Crater erupted last roughly 1000 years ago and there are hot spots plus a "blow hole" that constantly blows hot air. The area isn't as asleep as ppl think.
I live in Lexington Ky and i was just a ten year old kid but remember getting ash even here from Mt St Helens. Very powerful explosion
@@michaelshuey9670 - Hi, I remember getting ash here in Southern California.
I was about 40 miles south of Mt St Helens when it erupted in 1980. Never heard a thing. Now I live about 30 miles west of it, and I do not fear it because I know what it can do.
I'm digging the early 80's soap opera music.... nothing like hearing upbeat elevator music while the topic of disaster and loss of life is discussed.
Music was all over the place.
Could have used more big band narrated by Leslie Nielsen.
Like being in a elevator that just dropped 50 floors.
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It seems more like a travelog. It's weird.
I live within sight of Mt. St. Helens and never tire of it's beauty, the chance of it blowing it's top never enters my train of thought
The "possibility"is 100%. Only timing is at issue.
Thomas Linton soon
I would prefer not to see Rainer blow up. Or the Cascadia fault do a full rip .
@@melodiefrances3898 me too, but you can see large residential areas built on top of the last hot mud flows. it will happen again. As will the Really Big One that will make the next Rainier eruption look like a small inconvenience.
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How ironic for the real estate agency to name themselves "The Prudential" when prudence would have them build somewhere else lol
And now 20+ years after this documentary was filmed, the populations in Orting and other towns in the Puyallup valley have quadrupled and there’s still only 2 roads in and out of Orting.
I am learning so much about Volcanoes. Especially about Mt St Helens. Thank you for sharing this informative video. Hope to see many more.
1:30 min: "Other than Mt. St. Helens, the Cascade range has been quiet for centuries..." No, Mt. Lassen erupted in 1915 and was active for almost a decade.
Yea, having grown up in Shasta County east of Redding, I thought that was an odd omission
I believe I read they also think a couple of those Cascades were erupting when Lewis and Clark we're going down the Columbia River...I think in the late 1800s very early nineteen-hundreds there's people say that Mount Hood may have burped a little bit
Hood, Baker and Rainier have had eruptions in the latter half of the 19th century. Adams, Glacier Peak, Shasta, South Sister etc at some time between 900 and 1800 AD. All this very recent geologically. I used to live in New Zealand.
I've been to Mt. Lassen before. Lemme tell you, volcanoes stink. Literally, the sulfur they put out stinks to high heaven.
The Cascade mountains are awesome. I moved away from my Mt.
Rainier a few years ago, I miss it. Not seeing my mountain almost daily ,..I feel a loss.
Lynn Mitzy I moved away from Vancouver bc I lived where we had a wonderful view of mt baker. The only problem with the view was you could see the steam rising from the top.
Your ‘ mountain ‘ is a Volcano.
There’s a difference.
When was the last time Mt. Rainier erupted?
@@jamesdolen5132 1-2 million years ago.
I am gonna go visit her this year. It's been 9 years.
@@DAYBROK3 do you miss that view ?
As a child growing up in the 60's I use to go to Mt. St. Helens every summer for camping, hiking and fishing near and at Spirit Lake. I remember vividly the Day Mt. St. Helens erupted, my son was eight months old and we watched the Ash Cloud from Kent WA and stayed glued to the News. Now as a grandmother I live in the shadow of Mt. Rainier. Fortunately I am not in a Lahar Zone but I do need to be concerned about being buried beneath any ash the the mountain could throw my way. Still, all and all, this is Gods' beautiful country and I can't see living anywhere else. I am just more aware of the possibilities and am as prepared as I can be. As for the town of Orting, today they have a much better warning system. There are huge sirens all up and down the valley and they have drills regularly including getting the kids out of school and up to high ground during school hours.
Faith Hopper I moved to Vancouver Washington from South Dakota a few years back and have recently become very interested in this aspect of geology. I really want to just spend a day and go up to and around the area of St. Helens knowing what I know now. I heard there is a A frame house somewhere up in the area that is still standing in the same condition as it was after the eruption....anyways I'm just rambling....I've been trying to picture what it would have looked like to those in other areas of the state....when you say you watched the ash cloud do you mean like you could see everything erupting up into the sky from somewhere far off in the distance or do you mean like just the ash that came your way.....just trying to develop a better picture of what it was like here at that exact moment....THANK YOU!!
Faith Hopper, I live in MN. Born and raised in Saint Paul, MN. I have family in Olympia, Auburn, and Portland. If my husband would move with me, I would live there in a heartbeat. Absolutely, breathtakingly beautiful there....I remember driving too Washington with my mom and dad, in June of 1980. I was 5yrs old. Ash was STILL FALLING in MONTANA on our way too Washington state.
I live in Washington, as well. (Not giving away my specific area for privacy reasons.) I was born after the Mt. St. Helens eruption, but I am quite interested and aware in the various dangerous volcanoes in the area.
only stupid people live next to a volcano .. we will not feel sorry for you people when that volcano goes off and evaporates all of you in seconds .. We will not help any survivors out in any way .. you people deserve what you get .. I remember the dumb asses spewing they were not afraid of Mt St Helen's and the Government had no right to keep them away from their property .. They deserved what they got .. we did nothing to help them out .. to hell with stupid people
Krista Holes yea🏆BREATH THAT ASH . Brilliance at its best . THATS AMERICA
That Realtor from Orting sounds a lot like the Mayor in "Jaws!"
That was exactly my thoughts. LOL 'my family has lived here since the 40's" OMG.
As long as he's selling houses why should he care about the stupid people living there. Make the money thats all that maters. Lol.
@@scottpeters5260 yeah that's true enough
LOL .I was being sarcastic. But it does seem like that realator doesnt really care about his buyers saferty. What happens to them when the mountain does erupt.
@@scottpeters5260 He reminded me of Dante's Peak, the town manager I think it was LOL
Overlapping CME data with volcano data is an eye opening experience. 😳
35 years ago this May 18th, my life changed forever. I survived the eruption of Mt. St. Helens when I was 6 years old. A part of me still died that day. I use to go up every ten years on the anniversary. I might have to change that this year.
+Bax that was only three visits.SMH
Bax really? My wife and I were just there. I'd love to live there on the mountain.
so??
yes, it seems there must be more to her story... it ended abruptly
Steel City Interpreters yeah it's cool. Until it erupts.
This video includes some commentary on Cascade volcanoes but largely it is a general view of volcanoes around the ring of fire: Japan, Philippines, Mexico etc.
Okay. I understand that My saint Helen's has erupted most recently. However it is annoying that people tend to forget that Mount Lassen has also erupted in the 19th century. Maybe not as violently as Helen's but Lassen did erupt 1914-1917 I hate that no one seems to acknowledge that in videos as it is a testament to how active the casades still are.
1914-1917 was the 20th century, not the 19th.
Maybe Mt. Lassen is forgotten because you can hike up it.
The town is built on a mudflow...
In geology, when you see something anomalous, like a flat area in a mountainous region, you need to ask, why is this here? It's generally material that has washed or fallen from above that spot. A convenient place to build a house, yes. Maybe dangerous to actually live there though.
StereoSpace Tacoma and surrounding areas too , but these places attract millions. It's beautiful here. I've never feared the mountain.
I understand the potential danger, but , I love the mountain, it's home.
@@lynnmitzy1643 So you accept the possibility of the mountain killing you ? Actually, it's more then a possibility , it's a given !!
Mount Rainier, the mountain in the background in most pictures of Seattle, has more glacial ice than all other mountains in the contiguous US combine.
The damage from the mud flow of a Rainier eruption is predicted to be like Hurricane Katrina multiplied by 5 and will likely be the worst natural disaster in US history.
I have friends who live in Orting!
Mt. Hood had 100 quakes in less than a week in 2021it also has lots of snow and ice. Rainer's flank is bulging dangerously
*laughs in Yellowstone*
Indeed. One must keep in mind that the soft, swampy soil that makes up much of Seattle was deposited by the pyroclastic mud flows from Rainier's last major eruption event. Tacoma is built on the lava flows.
It's been over 20 years, a good time to do an update on those interviewed.
They're probably dead or close to it lol
Saint Helens and her frequent eruptions(she was most active) has produced geological markers in the sense that her ash layers are used to date the surrounding layers.
She IS STILL ACTIVE!!!
@@KatBird27 yes KatBird, St Helens is the most active volcano in the Cascade Range. One of about 20 or 25 distributed between British Columbia and California. Her sisters include Mt Baker, Glacier Pk, Mt Hood, Three Sisters, Mt Rainier, Mt Mazama(Crater Lake), Mt Shasta and Lassen Pk. Most of these have erupted within the last 2000 years.
15:45 Yes what they aren't saying is that a 747 came very very close to ditching in the indian ocean in 1982. That Volcanic ash completely shut down all the engines and it was only a ton of luck and a skill that saved them.
I've lived by mt rainier, mt, adams, mt.hood..and st.helens..for the last 6 years I've been here in Alaska..right by mt redoubt, and Illiamna..I've seen them all emit steam...while it can be a bit unsettling, the view of those majestic mountains and ocean..worth my risk...but up here we're always ready for the unexpected...this is Alaska
Ooh look, what a pretty mountain... I'm gonna build my house right next to it....
yup typical people in Indonesia, Philippines and Papua New Guinea... They Like, oh there's an active volcano, lets build a house here and if the volcano erupted lets blame the government
evil Duck, people do the same thing beside rivers and oceans too with predictable results.
Anybody remember that hysterical scene in 2012 with woody harrleson? ruclips.net/video/h36j7aSsYWo/видео.html
That's not a mountain. That's a space station.
@@buzz1913 😂
Welcome to the 1990s time warp! The best piece of advice came from the Japanese government. Don't depend on the government, be self reliant. Help other's and be prepared.
So you would ignore the government if they gave you a warning that something was going to happen? That's not self reliance, that's stupidity and it can get you killed.
Just sayin,........... those two big aircraft are just on a Reconnaissance mission, no chance they would possibly have a big fucking bomb on board. Again, just sayin, everyone gets it wrong occasionally.💀
@@christopherdougherty9832 she said not to DEPEND on them. learn to read.
I was watching a documentary about the 3/11 tsunami and one of the survivors said something to the effect of, "We were taught to listen to the warnings, to not depend on the government, and think of our lives first. It's because of that training that my family and I are alive."
@@watchgoose So who do you DEPEND on? What the hell do we pay taxes for, what the hell do we set up agencies to monitor this stuff for? Doubtful some "private interest" is coming along to help you in a situation like this, they're too busy figuring out how to exploit it for private gain.
I watched St. Helen's blow its top out my bedroom window. I was absolutely thrilled seeing the eruption but saddened with the aftermath. Still have some ash I collected around my house.
Good program. Thanks for uploading this. And thank you to Alison Kartevold as well.
Individual responsibility - taking care of one's self. Great concept and much to learn from Japan.
A Volcano is like a giant pimple, sooner or later is gonna pop!
arachnipope shart*
Jim Zimmer, et. al, another fantastic job of work. I'm living in volcanic Baja these days and I will always look back with fondness on my PA/work study year working with you and the producers. What a fun and informative addition to my MA in Criminal Justice experience in Spokane. I truly enjoy and learn from all your productions, whenever I stumble across them on You Tube. Thx. Jim T.
Imposter!
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Titles video "Cascade Volcanoes"
Mentions Cascades a few times while showing video footage from everywhere *_except_* the cascades.
In my case if I lean to my right 24 inches an active volcano
of the sort you're interested in is my daily reminder of life
near the Cascade Range. After promising to bring 200 adult
Grizzly Bears into those mountains this 2020 my POTUS
reversed that decision. Evidently he learned those bears
would eat more than just Canadians and Democrats .
Volcanoes in the Cascades and an apocalyptic caldera volcano to the east in Yellowstone.
PNW is in a bind. However if Yellowstone goes all of humanity is in a bind.
If? It has exploded previously and
shows no evidence of turning into
anything harmless. I recommend
going there to add more weight to
keep the lid on.
The latest studies on Yellowstone predict that it’s not going to blow any time soon...and if it does, it could be small eruptions, not the mega one all the doomsday types are talking about....
It might be a percise moment.
Don't forget the long valley caldera supervolcano near the sierra nevada mountains of california & the valles caldera supervolcano near the rocky mountains of new mexico. Yes, we have 3 of those big bad suckas here in the continental/continuous lower 48 states of the 🇺🇲 .
They will all go at once. These Volcanos are all active right now and the lava tubes are all connected
I explore caves. Since 1964. Yes, I get lost but evidently not enough.
Found an unexplored cave 5 miles from an active volcano caldera.
Since 2003 its been on my 'To Do' list. After the discovery I decided
to save it for my senior citizen recreation needs. I retired after 2010.
But felt active enough to do other things. Joined organized caving
groups in Michigan, California, and just this month in Wyoming. Did
start refurbishing a rain forest trail first completed in 2004. Have a
nice view upwards of 10,000 feet to enjoy on rest breaks. Watching
avalanches and vented steam. While the mountain that contains
the cave has been previously scalded clean of life and blasted with
volcanic material the cave survived. As do others. Such as Ape
Cave located on the south slope of Mount Saint Helens. I was in it
12 years after that volcano exploded and saw no damage. Let me
thank KSPS Public TV & PBS for being honest about science. To
get dishonesty about science I look no further than Republicans.
The most important thing to remember about any region of this world is the preservation of life as long as possible, avoiding any dangerous situations at all costs and even more so when it is always so eminent keeping people in constant awareness possible evacuation and in fear making every day The Day of Destruction and afterwards rebuild. Life is hard as it is with everyday hardships, let alone natural disasters, which can be avoided and yet are disregarded, trusting that each day of no activity guarantees many more days of safety. MOVE OUT AND LIVE
I grew up in McLoud/Mt Shasta - great memories.
On average, Mount Shasta has erupted at least once every 800 years during the last 10,000 years, and about once every 600 years during the last 4,500 years. The last known eruption occurred about 200 years ago, possibly in 1786
At 12.34 the gas station in Weeds has gas selling for $1.47a gallon. That sure dates this video, I just put $5.47 a gallon gas in my car in San Francisco.
I like these docs. The narrator and the music are very pleasant to fall asleep to.
I live in Australia. We have no "active" volcanos but I think one day that will change.. Apparently there is a hotspot between mainland Australia and Tasmania. I live near an old now extinct (although some people in my town think it is just dormant despite no gas emissions) called Mount Canobolas. It is beautiful and the view from the top is great!
We live in the MT. Shasta, Mt. Lassen area. Not to close to them. I hope. But they are beautiful.
If you live anywhere near Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, etc, then you should be very wary of the volcanoes in that area. There are multiple dangerous, active volcanoes. I drove past Mt. St. Helens recently to see it smoking, and I can see Mt. Raineir in the distance of where I live. It's smoking, too. Be careful.
Good. It's about time people stop thinking of them as "Pretty things". St. Helens has been active for the last decade or so, on and off. But if Mt Rainier were really getting active, it would be huge news. The entire Puget Sound area would be in lethal danger from that one.
RUUUUUUUNNNNNNNN! Not when it erupts; you can’t outrun it. Run away NOW and live elsewhere.
@@karenengelhardt1610 it's been bulging for 2 years now, probably about when you posted your comment. Btw the usgs is NOT reporting tremors and quakes like they should. 1 out of 20 doesn't cut it. Don't get me started on the seismographs they manipulate usually downwards on most.
@@elizabethjansen2684 👏👏👏 Truth
The residents who live near these volcanoes and refuse to leave if erupted, Harry Truman would be proud of them.
Yeah. If he wasn't dead. He at least should have allowed them to evacuate his pets.
I can dig Harry. What disgusts me is people who decide to stay at an impending disaster site then scream and cry that the "gumment didn't do enuf to save 'em" from their own stupidity and stubborness.
Omgosh. One interviewee said "From a training session, I learned I am responsible for my own life" These poor people really do need to be told when to eat, when to pee. Sad.
TWOHAWK 1 We have lots of people like that. They think the federal government is their mommy.
It's sickening the way everyone seems to want a handout. Welfare, social security, education for children, firefighters, police, food safety inspectors--it never seems to end. When will prople take responsibility for themselves?
When leftists quit telling them they never have to grow up. Govt will be mama forever and take care of them. That means govt will control them and the ADULTS who work and pay taxes will support them. Govt will also protect them from ever hearing anything that they don't want to hear or don't already believe. What my mom used to call Titty Babies. They are never weaned to adulthood.
To save your time, 10:00 to 20:00 min. then 35:00 to 45:00 Is ONLY about the cascades..
the rest is all rehashed footage and interviews, from Doc's I seen a hundred times,
Your welcome, merry Xmas!
Almost ALL volcanic vids are only ever about the USA. You'd think it was the only place on earth. Compared to real volcanic hot zones its positively boring. Not worth watching.
"The Japanese government was not about to surrender..."
Oh dear God no.
"...to a volcano."
Whew.
swissirish1 I KNOW, I got that whole Godzilla vibe too. I remember his epic battle with Mothra like it was yesterday.
they're just adding to the things that will flow .. a ridiculous belief that they can control nature..lmao..when mother nature says time to go. you are gone!!!
actually she said "surrender THIS LAND...."
Excellent program
I went to Shimabara Mt Unzen.. Saw the effects of the pyroclastic flow.. It is indeed mighty and a very beautiful area. .
REGUARDLESS, the view of mt. Rainer is amazing. I might have to visit or vacation there.
Well worth it. Lots of beautiful hiking and falls. You can go into some of the lava tubes..Majestic Rainer. Hope you make it. Take a week to see it
I lived in WA state for 11 years. From my windows and out doors Mt Rainier loomed large and beautiful. Hiking and climbing Mt Rainier was exhilarating and memorable. I also lived for almost a year in Olympia with a view of Mt St Helens also. I was fortunate to be able to visit Mt St Helens and see the devastating effects of major eruptions. Now I live in NC.
I just tip toe around the house and let them wake up on their own
LOL 😄😄
Good one Gill...everyday you wake up you should be thankful!
#1 You don't go any where near them to start with. No visiting, and especially NO living around them!
Last summer, my friends drove from WV to the Pacific ocean and visited Mt Rainier. They invited me to go with them, I gladly declined. They drove through Yellowstone, over the Rockies to Tacoma Wa, I stayed in WV where we don't have volcanoes, faults, and other "hazards" I feel perfectly safe here and have no desire to put myself in danger of any "natural" disaster.
Becky Shock There is usually weeks of warning. I’d visit -- briefly. I’d never live there. Don’t live on the coast either - hurricanes.
Hey, Becky. Read about the New Madrid fault that runs up the Mississippi River. There is a fault near you.
ANY WHERE we LIVE is ALWAYS ___ ! But $$$ and DEVELOPMENT RULE !
“Tornado Alley “, The GULF , EAST COAST , where ever ! DEATH & WEATHER do NOT CARE !
People FEAR DYING , but DEATH is OUR DESTINY
The interruption of Pinatubo would be an excellent opportunity to create a waru waru !
A manmade collection of islands for agriculture with flood channels inbetween.
If channels are perpetualy submerged, prawns and tilapia can be farmed in between. The ones that dry up annually are simply shoveled out onto the top of the islands surrounding them, thus refertilizing the soil.
The condensation layer above helps offer some protection to crops and allows larger Harvest.
It worked for the Mayans!
And they are EXTINCT NOW... Worked REAL WELL..
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I'm glad that they spent a considerable amount of time, discussing Mount Shasta and its environs. Pyroclastics, to my reckoning, are the worst phenomena, that volcanoes can inflict upon us. I would expect those, to at least reach Dunsmuir and beyond, to the South, perhaps Yreka to the Northwest and beyond. Acute Lahars (the second worst phenomena produced by volcanoes), might make it past Red Bluff, via the Sacramento River Channel, with a possibility of some breaching the topography, to go down the Klamath and Trinity River Channels. The first big Metroplex in Shasta's Danger path, depending on ambient air currents, would be the Ashland/Medford/Central Point, roughly 45 Miles away, to the North. Secondary acute, and later, chronic Lahars, would eventually work their way, all the way to San Francisco Bay, beyond the Golden Gate, thus, possibly causing a semi-permanent shutdown of the Oakland, Stockton, Southwest Sacramento, and San Francisco, Seaports. From ashfall and lava bombs, we could possibly expect places like Monterey, Merced, Fresno, Tahoe, and Reno, to experience at least serious--if not dire--effects. And it staggers the imagination, the extent of timber blowdown--could even reach into the productive Douglas Fir/Second-Growth Coastal Redwood Belts. So, in the immediate effects, much of Southwest/South Central Oregon, Northwestern Nevada, a little corner of Idaho, and as much as the entire Northern half of California, would become a big colossal write-off. Agriculture in California's Southern half, would become just a memory, for about 60 years. Then, with delayed ashfall and highly acidic toxic precipitation, the rest of the United States & Southern Canada, would buckle under. Much of the US & Canada, would also experience pandemics of Cardio-Pulmonary, Dermatologic, & Carcinogenic diseases. And then, we can only guess at the mid-term climatological effects, for the rest of the planet, for at least decades to come, though those would be very bad. Now, assuming that Rainier & Hood don't blow, in the same time frame, well, Seattle, Tacoma, and Vancouver, B.C., would just have to bear the burden, of being the most impacted--perhaps the ONLY viable--Seaports to serve the Easternmost Pacific Basin.
Alternatively titled: how to scare the living daylights out of everyone except for residents of the west coast.
One-half hour warning will only cause panic. One-half hour isn't nearly enough time to evacuate a city even a small one.
Correction 70% of known land volcanoes. More and more are found in the sea every year. Far more are oceanic volcanoes. Perhaps up to hundred of thousands.
Midlander NC Which will cause tsunamis like hit Japan about 8 years ago.
I feel like I’ve watched this before. High school class around 1989-ish, on VHS tape and supervised by a substitute teacher.
Excellent documentary.
Female narrators are great at putting one to sleep.
I remember that when mount saint Helens erupted most fatalities were because people refused to take the warnings seriously
they would have all voted for trump....to dumb to realise the dangers
Mott theHoople apparently there was no danger. You all don’t get it. We voted for Trump. A. Because we don’t like Hillary or the Clintons B. This was a message to Washington to tell them that if they don’t behave and support the American people they can be replaced. You all want the same career politicians who don’t do a thing. What you saw was a revelation pure and simple. And since you all still won’t listen. He will win again.
@@scottlutz4126 well considering I'm an Aussie I couldn't care less but every time that orange skinned numb nut opens his mouth I marvel at the merican voter
Mott theHoople well then if you don’t care leave it alone
@@mottthehoople693 I can't seem to escape politics no matter what random YT video pops up on my home page. If you look back at interviews with Harry Truman prior to the St. Helens eruption it had a lot less to do with being dumb than it did with a way life like the Aytas. Truman knew the risks and he elected to stay put because his entire life was inextricably tied to the mountain and Spirit Lake, and at his age he was philosophical about the risks. Some people who died died in the line of duty. David Johnston was the first to get the word out that St. Helens was blowing up, from what he _thought_ was a safe distance -- and he was a _geologist_ for godsake. People in the wrong place at the wrong time for what, to the Monday Morning Quarterback, appears to be the wrong reasons; but the fact that the death toll was kept to a few dozen from an eruption the size of St. Helens was in my mind nothing less than a miracle. Trying to get people to evacuate their homes and towns and way of life is frequently like squeezing blood from a turnip.
very informative , not all that much on the Cascades Volcanoes though
+Joel Tee Yeah - I know! About a third of the program was on the Cascades and the rest was on Mt Pinatubo - it was like something for UNICEF.
I know, the title was a little deceiving...18 volcanoes in the Cascade range and only mention of two.
Your programs are amazing . Thank you for sharing them.
Why are we so terrible about ignoring dangerous locations when building homes? So many live near volcanoes, and also in flood plains and dry river and lake bedd!
Hmmmm...thought it was about the Cascade Volcanoes................
Need a poo
I'm still of the opinion that Mt. Hood will go before Rainer because Rainer has vents to relieve the pressure where Hood is like St. Hellens it doesn't have any vents
don't forget Yellowstone N.P. which has very big super caldera.
granskare, yes, but its timeline is likely in the hundreds of thousands of years, at least, not in the hundreds.
What do we do when sleeping giants wake?
1) get somewhere else. Fast! Or
2) die
Dying is easier, so I'll go with that.
mud flows sound like ignoring bagging/ shipping such fertilizer in later aftermath
Seems like Orting has built itself up into a corner. There are two roads up into the hills out of there and they are one lane and travel up to a congested built up area. The roads leading to the Valley and i-5 and 18, 167 are slow going and incapable of handling regular traffic as there is wall to wall housing in on either side of the lanes. In 2020 it now borders one of the worst traffic congested areas in the state. State route 167, 18 and interstate 5 are the way out and in the morning and starting in mid afternoon, they are choked to a crawl. I pity anyone living there if there is an eruption on Mt Rainer. Orting, Auburn, Sumner, Puyallup, Tacoma, Kent, Renton and Tukwila are all in and built on lahar flow paths. Our Regional Justice Center is built in the middle of the Kent Valley. I havent heard an emergency siren in over 30 years. I believe Orting is the only city that actively reminds it's citizens of the dangers, other cities have taken some precautions because of Dam issues on the White river only. I have never heard them issue anything about eruptions and the lahar danger. I learned about lahars in grade school when we did talk about them and we actually had disaster warning sirens tested once a month in our town. I think these were civil defense sirens from the cold war. Now we are warned through cell phone contact and emergency broadcast system.
This is the kinda show we would see in school!
Unzen is what took the Kraffts from the world of geology.
RIP Katia and Maurice Krafft 1991.
"But muh small town charm! The Media keeps sayin' we gotta be safer and it's hurtin' muh real estate business!"
Buddy, it doesn't matter how long your family's lived there without an eruption. It's still going to erupt someday, and then there won't even BE a small town.
1968, 13 y.o. hiked el popo, at the end of the first day, we made camp. that night a storm came in and forced us to break camp and head back down. we were all soaked and everything we were carrying was soaked. we found dry shelter in a cave, had a little campfire to get the bats out and rested till morning.
Relax. In another 1.5 million years, you won't know Rainier ever existed...just wait and see.
Northernmost Tacoma, at Puget Sound, is built on 150' of sediment from Rainier's eruptions and lahars.
Leaving people without transportation to depend on their neighbors is sheer folly. Family A won't give a crap about family B, they'll pack their cars to the ceiling then take off.
Couldn't school bus fleets and city buses, etc be used instead of asking 'less desirables' to rely on others - because it isn't going to happen.
Katrina taught us that.
12:10 That woman embodies the key differences in Japanese vs Americans and why the Japanese are prepared for the natural disasters that they know will happen and why Americans are - we prefer to not worry about it and hope that our ignorance protects us. And that's why if there is a major eruption in a heavily populated area or "the big one" hits (whether off the coast of WA, OR, and northern CA or in SF/LA areas), it'll be devastating with far more lives lost than should be if we'd only bother to actually prepare for the eventuality. It's not like a tornado in the Midwest - we know its a possibility and we're prepared as best as we can be (with our early warning systems and tornado shelters), but it's only ever a possibility here. In WA, OR, and CA, it's an eventuality - it's not a question of *if*, it's *when*.
This "Bill" does *not* represent the average intelligence of people named "Bill" -- Just saying --
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits." -- A. Einstein
How do you have an early warning for a volcano? Scientist have been studying them and have found ways to warn about them. Until the volcano becomes active, it is nothing but another mountain. Why should you live in fear of something that you are unlikely to see in your life time. IF those volcano erupted every 100 years, then yes, people would need to be concerned. Mount St Helen went almost 200 years without any activity. Do you think it would have been wise for those that lived their entire life in that area but died before 1980 to have lived their life in fear?
Every time a volcano erupts, we learn more about them. The more we learn, the more warning we will have the next time around. Yes right now, if that volcano erupts, people will have trouble getting out. BUT if they have enough warning, they can all get away from it.
I used to live on clark afb. Do you think we would have been able to do our jobs if we were afraid that mt Pinatubo was going to erupt? As they said, thousands had gotten out before the eruption. Most had gotten out before the ash fall. Had we had more warning, they could have saved the other 250 people that didn't get out.
@brian turnbull Of course they care. Who else is going to pay them the big bucks to set around doing nothing.
William R Warren Jr So you’re calling yourself a genius?
Sound like a triggered pompous asshole honestly, Will.
Bill Better hope you aren’t Jewish, haha.
Some people just can’t even handle a little tiny bit of conflict.
It is their lives that is the boring one.
Love ur channel
This is mostly about other countries. I want history and facts about the cascades.
12:46 "Mt. Shasta's eruptions are larger and produce more pyroclastic flows than than Mt. St. Helen's."
14:40 "Mt. Shasta isn't a big ash producer."
.....uhhhh
Ash is not the same as a pyroclastic flow:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroclastic_flow
Tephra is comparably big, like pebbles, while ash is much finer, which then leads to it being deposited much farther away
It's okay for people to build their homes near volcanoes as long as they are willing (and ready) to evacuate when that volcanoe "wakes up". Volcanoes are one of the safest types of natural disasters because they almost always "wake up". Mount St. Helens woke up two full months before it fully erupted. I suppose volcanoes that are continually erupting as on the Hawaiian islands don't give any notice or forewarning because they are CONTINUALLY "awake".
Earthquakes, on the other hand, don't give any notice, other than most earthquake zones are on fault lines. But that's not really a reasonable type of warning. The areas far from the exact fault lines are also susceptible to the damage from earthquakes far from the fault lines. I don't think San Francisco is not exactly on a fault line but it is close. However, the whole city was devastated by an earthquake with an epicenter not in San Francisco itself. (Actually, it was heavily damaged TWICE!!)
But after watching the rest of this, I want to add that there should be a LOT of temporary housing built far away from the volcano, for the people living close to a volcano to move to when that volcano wakes up. The taxes to build and maintain that temporary housing should be collected from those who would need to use it - and it must be ABSOLUTELY unusable for homeless people or anybody else who does not live in that evacuation zone. I just KNOW that many will see those temporary houses/apartments sitting there not being lived in and want to use it for needy people!! They need to build other houses/apartments for those people. That "empty" unused housing IS being used as a place for those who paid for it to go when the volcano awakens. So, if it is paid for by the taxes from those in the evacuation zones and not by general tax revenue, then it doesn't belong to the government and therefore can't be used for/by other people. Also, they should use as much of those areas for parks and such. Of course, those parks would be off-limits when the volcano gets active (wakes up).
How does that sound as a possible solution to the problem of people wanting to live in those areas near volcanoes, or "red zones"? They are never going to be able to get people to not live in those areas. Plus, it allows those areas to be used, not left unused.
In short....ARE YOU CRAZY? I realize that there are dangers in anywhere you may live. However, if you choose to live in the path of, within the, under the curtain of...or with the headset of, if it happens it happens. Please, don't yell and scream for important and valuable government assistance WHEN THE DAMN BALL DROPS....OK?
Jim Green Yeah, that’s my tax dollars. Insurance companies no longer sell homeowners insurance (more than 20 years now), just fire insurance. So many idiots keep building on beaches and rebuilding in the same spot a after hurricanes blow them away. Again and again and again.
I'm not judging folks on where they choose to live; this world is dangerous no matter where you choose to live. God bless the souls of those that lost their bodies in these tragedies.
I love this old stuff thanks.
hows old mate from like the fire dept 39:58
"we have our own problems we cant help you" haha
Volcanos might as well be sleeping dragons... except that no one would live at the feet of a sleeping dragon.
Wow that something🐼
people always think "it won't happen to me".....let em stay and pay the consequenses... only yourself to blame.
umefunasone together But then they want my tax dollars and yours to rebuild, our insurance money, so they can live in danger.
Well done...great show!
Which volcano is stronger mount Vesuvius or Mount St. Helens
Alex Durn
It’s hard to know, Vesuvius buried Pompei in an instant and when Nat. Geographic published the uncovering of Pompei the citizens were instantly frozen in time holding mall children in their arms not anxiously covering their faces from deadly gases. It was a shock seeing that and there is no reason to die over any mountain that blows up. The explosion is instant forget running anywhere your lungs are instantly seared with hot burning gases.
You people need to move out of those areas there will be no rescues because there will be no survivors.
Brenda DeWitt there’s no escape from Vesuvius or campi flegeri 🤔
Alex Durn
Alex you are right there will be no escape
/ cell phone service will be gone/ no firemen to the rescue/ there will be no air to breathe and no fresh water to drink. All the narrow two way roads out of the mountains if they are passable will be overwhelmed with congestion’s of cars and trucks.
No gas pumping for your cars cause no electricity.
Very large redwood trees everywhere, all kinds of rivers split and flowing many different directions. All the water contaminated with volcanic ash and your automobile running on gas and built for oxygen will get “snuffed out”.
They predict 20 million people dead in the Juan de Fuca Cascadia Subduction zone.
The Hayward fault out of San Francisco will lead the charge. A greater part of the California Zone, West of I-5 all the way up including Redding and Medford, Oregon have a very good chance of breaking off from the American Continent.
Tsunami’s predicted up to 1,500 feet tall from the coast will hit 15 minutes after the volcano’s explode.
All the fresh MOUNTAIN water will be contaminated and there is a possibility Dams will fail and water and debris will destroy the lower Central Valley of California. Predicted 10 feet of standing water in Central Valley California, 10 years after the event.
There will be darkness everywhere and the possibility of growing crops minimal.
Predicted 20 years of drought and famine.
Go ahead foolish Californians and Oregonians and Washingtonians dig IN ...... enjoy your view, RAISE YOUR WINE GLASSES; PLAN NO EARLY ESCAPE .... NO ONE WILL BE COMING........A DISASTER WILL BE DECLARED AND THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE YOUR GRAVES .............
“ there will be no rescue from such a Vast Epic Disaster”!!!
Can the ash be used as a construction material?
I agree about the music.
Everytime I fly into Seattle, I love the views of Rainier, Mt St Helens an Mt Adams. I have plans on moving to the Tacoma area.
Study the weather there - hot and dry.
@@sassylady2001 rainy and gloomy. Hence the emerald city... Seattle. Tho it has been good weather the few times I've been out there.
Tacoma is in the lahar zone, study a map and move to areas that are not in the Lahar, I live in Lacey Washington south of Tacoma which is not a lahar zone, but lahar zones are very close, especially a valley between Lacey and Tacoma to the North
Let's ask the people in Herculaneum and Pompeii what they think. Oh.....right.
The thing about the cascade volcanoes is they are so violent in their eruptions. I'm waiting for the day crater lake goes active again.
Crater lake has activity, seismographs were shut down across the region or manipulated down or up.