In 1980, I was a junior in high school living in Tacoma, about 92 miles away from Mt. St. Helens. My mom and I were at a shopping center when we noticed the volcano erupting. It was was enormous and clear as day. The plumes of ash were rolling up to the sky, and like I said, almost like they were in the next town over. We just stood there, awestruck. Probably the wildest thing I've ever seen or will ever see in my life. Our lawn, flowers and cars were covered in ash and for days afterward the sunsets were a beautiful shade of lavender from the ash. She's now 94 and still remembers it vividly. I'm in awe of nature's beauty and destructiveness. Thanks for posting this!
@Tehownilator A soft “ Boom “ woke me up that morning,…… thinking nothing of it I went back to sleep only to wake up a few hours later to literal inches of ash and small pumice stones already on the ground. It rained ash for several hours after until Centralia and Chehalis looked like the surface of the moon.
The scientist David Johnston who worked for USGS was on a ridge about 4 miles from Mt St Helens doing readings with instruments. When the mountain start to go, he got on his radio to the USGS office in Vancouver and shouted "Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it." He was never heard from again. It is estimated that the lateral blast that blew out the north face of the mountain was traveling between 200-300 MPH and took less than a minute to reach him. When it hit him, his body spontaneously disintegrated.
@davidlong3219 he had the foresight to secure the photos and stuff that he took, so that when they found his body at least we got some cool photos out of it
The Krakatoa footage is some of the most picturesque footage from an eruption I have ever seen. Beautiful but powerfully destructive; nature at its finest.
Geologist Dave Johnston was closest to Mt. St. Helens when it blew. His last words were, "Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!" The visitors center nearest the crater is named for him. Scientists are heroes.
@scubascrubs I'm always impressed how movement scales witht size. I mean a large explosion can never be as fast as a small one relative to it's size. If a huge asteroid impacts earth the initial explosion might take several minutes up to hours whilst a small explosions take a few seconds
@rgerber Its less about size and more about distance. The farther away an object is, the slower it will appear to move, like looking up at jet airplanes that are traveling at 400-500mph but dont look to be moving very fast at all. It is very weird and fascinating.
The Krakatoa photographer blew my mind. At first I questioned the positioning/framing, I was quickly stunned by how they took into account the wind speed. Perfection in so many ways.
@evander2115 beautiful country with wonderful people. I'm literally jealous of your food. It's special here in the Netherlands, I would love to eat it every day.
It really gives you the sheer scale of things when stuff being filmed literally looks like they stop moving. Like it's happening in slow motion. When in reality, a rock that just flew into the ocean was probably a size of a house, flying a good few kilometers through the air. The smoke clouds basically looking like some weird rock formations, climbing several kilometers in height. Unbelievable stuff.
There is a video a kid STILL ON THE ISLAND took as Wakaari island erupted. He was the only one of his family to live. You could hear everyone screaming and burning. It is awful. I think it’s on Netflix as part of a documentary.
Why don't people take the soil and put it somewhere safe, I'm sure the volcano will create more one day and you don't have to worry about being burned alive
I have actually climbed Mt. Stromboli, Vesuvius and Mt. Etna in Italy. My heritage from my dad’s side comes from Sardinia. So, when I visit Italy it’s easy to just go climb away. Others I have visited are Mt. Fuji and Sakurajima in Japan, Pinatubo in the Philippine, Mt. Saint Helens, Redoubt, Mt. Kilauea, Hawai’i volcanoes national park in USA, White Island in New Zealand, Eyjafjallajokull and Thingvellir in Iceland, Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania Africa and Mt. Krakatoa in Indonesia and Mt. Teide in the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa to name a few. Sometimes I wished that I would have study
I'm surprised Mt. Etna footage didn't show up on this list as its Europes largest most active volcano (more so than Stromboli) and from what I understand Etna is studied very rigorously ensuring safety for tourism to climb
I agree. I am more afraid of a Vesuvio eruption compared to Etna or Stromboli since historically Vesuvio eruptions have caused mass deaths. However, i would still rank Etna above Stromboli. Etna is studied much more rigorously due to its activity to ensure safety for tourists and populations surrounding in Catania. Because of this rigorous study and estimations of when it will erupt, many lives have been saved over time. Even though Etna is at a higher elevation and more distant from towns and cities in Catania, its eruptions have caused massive damage to peoples lives from the ash as far west as Agrigento where my family comes from. Stromboli is a younger volcano with perhaps more unpredictable eruptions but the island is only inhabited by 600-800 people. Because stromboli is more unpredictable one could say its more dangerous than Etna, but I think the fact that Etna is in a more densely populated region and visited by more tourists out of convenience it has to be regarded as more dangerous to the lives of people. INGV of Catania makes Etna less dangerous. They also study stromboli but more money is invested in Etna has its more visited. In fact, i would rank Monte Pilato in Lipari as being more dangerous and something I fear more than both stromboli and Etna. I think Sicily's most dangerous volcano is Monte Pilato. Like Vesuvio, Pilato has been dormant for centuries but its still active and not completely asleep. The next eruption could wipe out the entire island of Lipari
@ShabanAjeti this is false and not true. For example Etna has nothing to do with the supervolcano Campi Flegrei. Campi Flegrei crater is totally separate. Vesuvio is also separate
I was a junior in high school when I was at home with my mom watching the news breaking. My mom's name was HELEN, and to me, she was a saint ! Unfortunately, my family lost our St. Helen just two months ago ! 😇😢😰😭
@johnlukasik8045 I am so sorry for your loss. I lost my mother 22 years ago and it still gets me sometimes when I think that she is not here. But I know I will see her again in the New World.
Mt. St. Helens gives me chills. It's incredible to me that you can go on google maps and still see that Spirit Lake is partially covered in the SAME logs.
Wow that first eruption was amazing, i always imagined those explosive eruptions being more gradual and subtle, not a MOAB type shockwave like that, wow.
Pyroclastic flows can travel at hundreds of miles an hour, explosive eruptions on stratovolcanoes are much more like a nuclear blast than the slow moving lava flows of the Hawaiian volcanoes.
Yea and the fact he called the audio "dodgy" cracked me up. The volume of a such an explosion is outside what is survivable by a human, and the sound is out of our hearing spectrum. The microphone did a good job that day.
It is hard to believe this list did not include the eruption of Volcan De Fuego in Guatemala in 2018. The footage of the pyroclastic flow and the people fleeing as you can see the flow cross the road just behind them is terrifying.
White Island was very sad there’s a mini doc on RUclips about atleast one persons experience with one of the people that survived but lost her dad and sister
Highly recommend watching the documentary about the Whakaari eruption (White Island). Absolutely heartbreaking, but eye opening on how dangerous they can be even without all the lava 😓
Lava is certainly eye-catching, and can be extremely destructive, but of all the things a volcano can throw (sometimes literally!) at people it is probably the least lethal. Even when spewing straight from it's vent, and yellow hot, lava doesn't move fast enough to overwhelm people. In fact, I can think of only one eruption in the last 100 years where a lava flow was speedy enough to catch and kill people. It's safe to say that things like pyroclastic flows, volcanic mudflows, and even something as simple as dips in the ground filled with volcano produced carbon dioxide have killed more people than lava flows have.
I highly agree, it was so well done I've watched it a few times and its something that puts you in awe but also showing the degree of a situation like this.
There was a documentary on Netflix about it. There were several tour boats that went sequentially to the island after the prior boat & tour group left. The footage in this compilation is from one of the boats that had already toured and was leaving the island. The documentary gives the account of the people actually on the island when it erupted. They were enveloped in hot steam and ash, essentially melting their skin like a boiled chicken. Only the ones who were at the edges closest to the beach survived who were able to shield themselves behind rocks, but they were still severely burned. It took at least 2 hours to get help and transport them to hospitals 30 miles away across the sea channel by boat. A very horrible story.
I was in Portland, Oregon and my son woke me up to tell me the mountain blew up. We watched TV the rest of the day, as it was in our "back yard" so to speak.
Well anyone within about 50 miles in the first hour or so, then anyone downstream of the major rivers as the lahars travel downstream in the hours and days following, climatic effects are harder to predict. Assuming it blows as a VEI 8+. Given the unpredictable nature of volcanoes it could have smaller eruptions, or no eruptions at all.
I think not. Yellowstone may be a caldera. But most likely it will erupt at the weakest spot in the crust. Wich is not the whole caldera. Pretty disappointing. But hey, people like it too much to be afraid of anything. So we keep on fantasizing about Yellowstone destroying the whole Earth. 😂
Part of info for #2, Kuchinoerabujima, in Japan showed a seismic event May 18, 1980. It may have been Mt St Helens blowing her top/side. I was a couple hundred miles downstream and heard the sonic boom that morning. Amazing event. Sky slowly darkened to black and several hours later the ash started falling. About 4" where I was.
If you ever want to feel inspired and insignificant at the same time stand on a volcano when it erupts speaking from experience it is a sight to behold 🤯
Congratulations for pronouncing the name Eyjafjallajökull correctly. The volcano Katla is many times more powerful and she is long overdue. Greetings from Iceland the land of ice and fire.
As another kiwi of new zealand. White island is pretty much always erupting, always letting off smoke or steam. I'm pretty sure it's our most active volcano
As a New Zealander you cant help but be in awe of the power of White Island, but as so many lost their lives that day it hurt us as a nation. There is always risks visiting an active volcano but I think this was bigger and more sudden then we thought it would be.
I'm from Auckland. I remembered how shocked New Zealanders were when they heard the news. The whole town of Whakatane is mourning (Whakatane is the “Gateway to White Island".
Still the vulcanologists had warned about the unrest of the volcano some weeks before the eruption. One lucky thing is that it wasn't magmatic but phreotic "steam explosion".
@MikkoLaine34 If I recall the issue was the cruiseline not fully passing on the elevated risk from volcanologists, rather, the generic "this volcano is considered active" risk as usual
Sakurajima is across the bay from Kagoshima City and a friend who lives in Kagoshima City has told me that on a daily basis, they are cleaning ash from their sidewalks, porches, etc. Similar to what many in snow regions would do during winter.
6:28 omg that footage is insane you can actually see it break the sound barrier, obviously that would happen but you can see that cone like when a F16 will break the sound barrier.
Very perceptive, but a little off. The cone you see at the airshows is subsonic, because the law permits only subsonic flight near populated areas...or we get blown windows. What you see on that F-16 is a shock collar, due to a sudden pressure/temperature drop and aerodynamic forces around the plane. The volcanic explosive increase in pressure is what is shown here in the form of a shockwave. So, you were close.
i remember mt st helens. everything in our town in northern cal was covered in ash about an inch thick for weeks after. . my mom still has a container full of ash she gathered on her bookshelf.
Australia is over 4 thousand miles from Japan, then why did airplanes have to reroute from Australia to Japan to Shanghai as it says at 7:37 in this video? Someone said that because its flat is how it interrupted airplanes flying across such a broad area.....
@RobertSmith-oc5nf most vids that say natural disasters "caught on camera" doesn't actually show any footage it shows stock footage of random stuff that most times doesn't depict what they are talking about and someone just tells a story over the pictures they show
About the 1883 "eruption" of Krakatoa, the explosion was so powerful that the shock wave traveled the planet 8 times, seismographs in london england cought it and they thought it was an earthquake.
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In 1980, I was a junior in high school living in Tacoma, about 92 miles away from Mt. St. Helens. My mom and I were at a shopping center when we noticed the volcano erupting. It was was enormous and clear as day. The plumes of ash were rolling up to the sky, and like I said, almost like they were in the next town over. We just stood there, awestruck. Probably the wildest thing I've ever seen or will ever see in my life. Our lawn, flowers and cars were covered in ash and for days afterward the sunsets were a beautiful shade of lavender from the ash. She's now 94 and still remembers it vividly. I'm in awe of nature's beauty and destructiveness. Thanks for posting this!
Good grief! Must've been a sight and a half.
My mother was a junior in Tacoma at the time as well! I don’t suppose you went to Foss?
Was there a sound?
@Tehownilator
A soft “ Boom “ woke me up that morning,…… thinking nothing of it I went back to sleep only to wake up a few hours later to literal inches of ash and small pumice stones already on the ground. It rained ash for several hours after until Centralia and Chehalis looked like the surface of the moon.
Wow, that must have been awesome yet terrifying.
Imagine being one of the first to see a volcano explode and having no idea what's going on, that must have been absolutely terrifying.
Pompei ;)
Thats where the gods came from.
The scientist David Johnston who worked for USGS was on a ridge about 4 miles from Mt St Helens doing readings with instruments. When the mountain start to go, he got on his radio to the USGS office in Vancouver and shouted "Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it." He was never heard from again.
It is estimated that the lateral blast that blew out the north face of the mountain was traveling between 200-300 MPH and took less than a minute to reach him. When it hit him, his body spontaneously disintegrated.
@davidlong3219 he had the foresight to secure the photos and stuff that he took, so that when they found his body at least we got some cool photos out of it
Basically, Pompeii 🥲
The Krakatoa footage is some of the most picturesque footage from an eruption I have ever seen. Beautiful but powerfully destructive; nature at its finest.
Fake -- it's all CGI.
Just kidding =)
Impressive.
Most impressive.
Anak Krakatoa (Krakatoa's child)
@dedurocortorum365 son
@Iamnotradit Yes, its son
Geologist Dave Johnston was closest to Mt. St. Helens when it blew. His last words were, "Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!" The visitors center nearest the crater is named for him.
Scientists are heroes.
6:18 is how I thought all volcanoes erupted as a kid lol
The shockwave in the clouds at 6:18 to 6:26 is awesome.
I like the dirt chucks flying out in slow mo
so cool watching the rocks fly into the water
@scubascrubs I'm always impressed how movement scales witht size. I mean a large explosion can never be as fast as a small one relative to it's size. If a huge asteroid impacts earth the initial explosion might take several minutes up to hours whilst a small explosions take a few seconds
@rgerber
Its less about size and more about distance. The farther away an object is, the slower it will appear to move, like looking up at jet airplanes that are traveling at 400-500mph but dont look to be moving very fast at all. It is very weird and fascinating.
Wilson Cloud. Also seen in nukes.
10:40 I want an Oreo all of a sudden
Krakatoa looked like the eruption you always imagine as a kid.
The Krakatoa photographer blew my mind. At first I questioned the positioning/framing, I was quickly stunned by how they took into account the wind speed. Perfection in so many ways.
im from indonesian
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@evander2115 norak
@evander2115 beautiful country with wonderful people. I'm literally jealous of your food. It's special here in the Netherlands, I would love to eat it every day.
It really gives you the sheer scale of things when stuff being filmed literally looks like they stop moving. Like it's happening in slow motion. When in reality, a rock that just flew into the ocean was probably a size of a house, flying a good few kilometers through the air. The smoke clouds basically looking like some weird rock formations, climbing several kilometers in height. Unbelievable stuff.
Indeed. You really do not wanna be struck with that
I wonder how long it took for you to master pronouncing the Icelandic volcano throughout the years of this channel
I love how every volcano is "the most active volcano in the world"....
4:03 “you can’t tell your mum this happened” she’ll never let you travel again 😂
There is a video a kid STILL ON THE ISLAND took as Wakaari island erupted. He was the only one of his family to live. You could hear everyone screaming and burning. It is awful. I think it’s on Netflix as part of a documentary.
These are definitely some of the volcanic eruptions of all time.
Girl: "You can't tell your mom this happened"
Netflix: I'll tell her
Volcanoes are a thing of beauty but also a beast of nature
The amount of power volcanoes have is incredible.
Even more than that! :))
Just think the actually powerful ones havnt gone off for hundreds of thousands of years and are many times bigger
They're basically the reason any land mass exists, it's crazy.
Human: Look, exploding mountain. I want to live there. I build house there.
😂😂😂😂😂
Usually fertile ground there
Volcanic loam soil is very fertile
😂😂😂
Why don't people take the soil and put it somewhere safe, I'm sure the volcano will create more one day and you don't have to worry about being burned alive
Did nobody noticed the Dragon Ball Super Truck at 13:18?😂😂😅
Wow these Volcanoes are really cool to look at on screen but IRL it's not cool at all
I feel a similar way about the godzilla movies!
I have actually climbed Mt. Stromboli, Vesuvius and Mt. Etna in Italy. My heritage from my dad’s side comes from Sardinia. So, when I visit Italy it’s easy to just go climb away. Others I have visited are Mt. Fuji and Sakurajima in Japan, Pinatubo in the Philippine, Mt. Saint Helens, Redoubt, Mt. Kilauea, Hawai’i volcanoes national park in USA, White Island in New Zealand, Eyjafjallajokull and Thingvellir in Iceland, Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania Africa and Mt. Krakatoa in Indonesia and Mt. Teide in the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa to name a few. Sometimes I wished that I would have study
Nah its too hot irl
@lebronjames5601 lies
Some might say there hot lol
‘You can’t telll your mom this happened’ cracked me up lol
I'm surprised Mt. Etna footage didn't show up on this list as its Europes largest most active volcano (more so than Stromboli) and from what I understand Etna is studied very rigorously ensuring safety for tourism to climb
I agree. I am more afraid of a Vesuvio eruption compared to Etna or Stromboli since historically Vesuvio eruptions have caused mass deaths. However, i would still rank Etna above Stromboli. Etna is studied much more rigorously due to its activity to ensure safety for tourists and populations surrounding in Catania. Because of this rigorous study and estimations of when it will erupt, many lives have been saved over time. Even though Etna is at a higher elevation and more distant from towns and cities in Catania, its eruptions have caused massive damage to peoples lives from the ash as far west as Agrigento where my family comes from. Stromboli is a younger volcano with perhaps more unpredictable eruptions but the island is only inhabited by 600-800 people. Because stromboli is more unpredictable one could say its more dangerous than Etna, but I think the fact that Etna is in a more densely populated region and visited by more tourists out of convenience it has to be regarded as more dangerous to the lives of people. INGV of Catania makes Etna less dangerous. They also study stromboli but more money is invested in Etna has its more visited. In fact, i would rank Monte Pilato in Lipari as being more dangerous and something I fear more than both stromboli and Etna. I think Sicily's most dangerous volcano is Monte Pilato. Like Vesuvio, Pilato has been dormant for centuries but its still active and not completely asleep. The next eruption could wipe out the entire island of Lipari
He has included Mount Etna in several of his videos prior. You should check them out.
tourism + really active volcano = tradgedy
And all thos volcanos,are the Peaks of the Super volcano in italy.
@ShabanAjeti this is false and not true. For example Etna has nothing to do with the supervolcano Campi Flegrei. Campi Flegrei crater is totally separate. Vesuvio is also separate
Luckily there’s no volcanoes in my state that I’m aware of…
Volcanoes are scary but also create life. Without them there would be no land for us to live
WHY THE LIGHTNING
21:28 I was a 4yo girl watching the news in Chicago when this happened.
I love your videos about volcanos sooo much, trank you!!😀
The Krakatoa footage was so beautiful & my favorite of all of these, but the chopper footage of the Iceland volcano was also spectacular!
Going out by valcano is either badass or stupid. Not sure.
The secret life of Walter Mitty. If you know, you know.
6:21 if you look closely, you can see part of the landscape actually blow up like a bubble just before it erupts!
Whoa!! That's cool thank you!
That is pretty cool actually, good catch thanks. Also cool is how long it takes to hear the sound of it popping.
Haha, oops I commented before they explained it took 13 seconds to hear it.
So freaking cool how the debris is in a natural slow motion fall lol and then the shockwave. Once in a life time view man, holy cow.
I remember that day-May 18, 1980. I remember watching the live video of the reporter that was caught in the blast as he tried to get out. Terrifying.
I was a junior in high school when I was at home with my mom watching the news breaking. My mom's name was HELEN, and to me, she was a saint ! Unfortunately, my family lost our St. Helen just two months ago ! 😇😢😰😭
@johnlukasik8045 I am so sorry for your loss. I lost my mother 22 years ago and it still gets me sometimes when I think that she is not here. But I know I will see her again in the New World.
@kwiknkleen I believe the same, and Thank You ! 🥰🥰🥰
I stood in my yard in Portland and watched it. My parents had us cleaning ash off the roof and gutters for two weeks.
@Eperogi Limousine There were multiple eruptions. #2 and 3 dumped on Portland.
Mt. St. Helens gives me chills. It's incredible to me that you can go on google maps and still see that Spirit Lake is partially covered in the SAME logs.
7:40 looks like the black cloud/pressure is so strong it simply evaporates the air around it
Now that's giant huge gray volcano that's powerfully huge
The Krakatoa eruption video was stunning. What a piece of luck. Volcanos showing just how insignificant we are.
You can’t tell your mom this happened 😂😂
Wow that first eruption was amazing, i always imagined those explosive eruptions being more gradual and subtle, not a MOAB type shockwave like that, wow.
Pyroclastic flows can travel at hundreds of miles an hour, explosive eruptions on stratovolcanoes are much more like a nuclear blast than the slow moving lava flows of the Hawaiian volcanoes.
Yea and the fact he called the audio "dodgy" cracked me up. The volume of a such an explosion is outside what is survivable by a human, and the sound is out of our hearing spectrum. The microphone did a good job that day.
"you cant tell your mom this happened" LOL
That time lapse for the boom.Reminds me of whether your absence from a forest means theres no noise
I got to watch Mt. Spur explode when I was a teen
3:20 BRAZIL MENTIONED!!!
Props to the narrator for all these videos. Nice to listen to, great oratory skills 👍🏻👍🏻
It is hard to believe this list did not include the eruption of Volcan De Fuego in Guatemala in 2018. The footage of the pyroclastic flow and the people fleeing as you can see the flow cross the road just behind them is terrifying.
I know I'm a little late here, but he has included Vulcan de Fuego in several of his videos prior. You should check them out. They're beautiful.
It's not in the US is it?
@RichardASKthere's only one volcano on this list that's in the United States.
@RichardASK he literally said it was in Guatemala..
I clicked for volcanoes. I stayed for Stromboli
15:20 -- the sexiest eruption ever caught on camera.
Yes, lava is what we all want! Forget the dust and ashes
6:40 you can hear "holy smokin toledos" from the other guy
White Island was very sad there’s a mini doc on RUclips about atleast one persons experience with one of the people that survived but lost her dad and sister
Highly recommend watching the documentary about the Whakaari eruption (White Island). Absolutely heartbreaking, but eye opening on how dangerous they can be even without all the lava 😓
Lava is certainly eye-catching, and can be extremely destructive, but of all the things a volcano can throw (sometimes literally!) at people it is probably the least lethal. Even when spewing straight from it's vent, and yellow hot, lava doesn't move fast enough to overwhelm people. In fact, I can think of only one eruption in the last 100 years where a lava flow was speedy enough to catch and kill people. It's safe to say that things like pyroclastic flows, volcanic mudflows, and even something as simple as dips in the ground filled with volcano produced carbon dioxide have killed more people than lava flows have.
I highly agree, it was so well done I've watched it a few times and its something that puts you in awe but also showing the degree of a situation like this.
There was a documentary on Netflix about it. There were several tour boats that went sequentially to the island after the prior boat & tour group left. The footage in this compilation is from one of the boats that had already toured and was leaving the island. The documentary gives the account of the people actually on the island when it erupted. They were enveloped in hot steam and ash, essentially melting their skin like a boiled chicken. Only the ones who were at the edges closest to the beach survived who were able to shield themselves behind rocks, but they were still severely burned. It took at least 2 hours to get help and transport them to hospitals 30 miles away across the sea channel by boat. A very horrible story.
I was in Portland, Oregon and my son woke me up to tell me the mountain blew up. We watched TV the rest of the day, as it was in our "back yard" so to speak.
When Yellowstone blows, you can kiss it all goodbye.
Thank God it won't happen in anyone's lifetime that is watching this.
Well anyone within about 50 miles in the first hour or so, then anyone downstream of the major rivers as the lahars travel downstream in the hours and days following, climatic effects are harder to predict. Assuming it blows as a VEI 8+. Given the unpredictable nature of volcanoes it could have smaller eruptions, or no eruptions at all.
and tobaa too
@ImpendingJoker there's been an update on that, scientists have discovered that Yellowstone is waking up sooner than expected
I think not. Yellowstone may be a caldera. But most likely it will erupt at the weakest spot in the crust. Wich is not the whole caldera. Pretty disappointing. But hey, people like it too much to be afraid of anything. So we keep on fantasizing about Yellowstone destroying the whole Earth. 😂
6:32 imagine those rocks like a 16 inch shell coming out of a Iowa class battleship
Part of info for #2, Kuchinoerabujima, in Japan showed a seismic event May 18, 1980. It may have been Mt St Helens blowing her top/side. I was a couple hundred miles downstream and heard the sonic boom that morning. Amazing event. Sky slowly darkened to black and several hours later the ash started falling. About 4" where I was.
Maybe in a few hundred years they'll find Harry Truman and his cat.
If you ever want to feel inspired and insignificant at the same time stand on a volcano when it erupts speaking from experience it is a sight to behold 🤯
One of my favorite videos yet...good work. Still rest in peace to those who lost their lives.
Thank you!! Means a lot:)
You're not wrong all the volcanoes are really interesting to me they make shocked
Amazing video showing the formation of volcanic islands. It’s incredible to see how new land is created by these natural events. 15:26
The Krakatoa footage was pretty cool.
Congratulations for pronouncing the name Eyjafjallajökull correctly. The volcano Katla is many times more powerful and she is long overdue. Greetings from Iceland the land of ice and fire.
Grimsvotn seems ready to go too
@ryanwatterson4038 Yeah there are 5 volcanoes ready to rumble at the moment.
Walter mitty lived through it
The white cloud that appears and collapses on itself real fast is the volcano eruption breaking the sound barrier.
That was cool 😎
My uncle and cousin were on the beach opposite the 1994 Rabaul eruption and my dad was on the phone with them at the time and hear it.
5:17 that is crazy
🌋 are mothers nature best defense against humans
As another kiwi of new zealand. White island is pretty much always erupting, always letting off smoke or steam. I'm pretty sure it's our most active volcano
It or Hawaii kilawaya
Stromboli is only.... Pizza folded in half before baking😅
As a New Zealander you cant help but be in awe of the power of White Island, but as so many lost their lives that day it hurt us as a nation. There is always risks visiting an active volcano but I think this was bigger and more sudden then we thought it would be.
I'm from Auckland. I remembered how shocked New Zealanders were when they heard the news. The whole town of Whakatane is mourning (Whakatane is the “Gateway to White Island".
Still the vulcanologists had warned about the unrest of the volcano some weeks before the eruption. One lucky thing is that it wasn't magmatic but phreotic "steam explosion".
@MikkoLaine34 If I recall the issue was the cruiseline not fully passing on the elevated risk from volcanologists, rather, the generic "this volcano is considered active" risk as usual
I’m from Matamata. I remember feeling totally shocked as things unfolded. It was a horrible disaster for our whole country
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Who would go to explore an active volcano? That was crazy!!!😵😵😵
that Krakatoa footage was pure perfection
Hmm, interesting that you need to expain that a submarine volcano is one that occurs under the sea.
Sakurajima is across the bay from Kagoshima City and a friend who lives in Kagoshima City has told me that on a daily basis, they are cleaning ash from their sidewalks, porches, etc. Similar to what many in snow regions would do during winter.
“ You can’t tell your mom this happened” 😂😂
6:28 omg that footage is insane you can actually see it break the sound barrier, obviously that would happen but you can see that cone like when a F16 will break the sound barrier.
Very perceptive, but a little off. The cone you see at the airshows is subsonic, because the law permits only subsonic flight near populated areas...or we get blown windows. What you see on that F-16 is a shock collar, due to a sudden pressure/temperature drop and aerodynamic forces around the plane. The volcanic explosive increase in pressure is what is shown here in the form of a shockwave. So, you were close.
I was 30 miles away from Mt St Helen in 1980. An incredible experience
Watched Dante’s peak last night now I’m in a YT rabbit hole of volcanoes
11:09 looks like oreo fountain to me .
Lava and water go brrrr
"choppy audio aside..."
Well above red-line clipping.
Surprised there wasn't anything from the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption, a VEI 6.
I'm surprised too. I was there and witnessed the first eruption from Clark Air base.
I kept waiting to see that one
I'm surprised Unzen, early '90s in Japan didn't get in the list. There is some pretty dramatic footage of that eruption!
@4:03 "You can't tell your mom this happened." Mom turns on TV *click*
i remember mt st helens. everything in our town in northern cal was covered in ash about an inch thick for weeks after. . my mom still has a container full of ash she gathered on her bookshelf.
There is an eerie photo out there by a photographer who was near Mount St. Helens when it erupted
the full story is quite something..
Always enjoy watching your videos.
I can’t believe I never saw that footage of Anak Krakatau before. That was incredible!
17:10 looks like the boot of a giant, vengeful god from the clouds.
Australia is over 4 thousand miles from Japan, then why did airplanes have to reroute from Australia to Japan to Shanghai as it says at 7:37 in this video? Someone said that because its flat is how it interrupted airplanes flying across such a broad area.....
Don’t type too loud they’ll call you a conspiracy theorist
I just have two words for people who live in the shadow of volcanos.....HELL & NO!!!!!
Letting those tourists onto that island, when the volcanologist said that was a bad idea, was financially irresponsible.🤬
Only financially? I wonder what your priorities...
shame a local tv news cameramasn was on st helen and recorded what it was like, i will never forget it
Every Volcano on this list is "one of the most active" volcano on the planet
Of course. It would be pretty boring if he was covering the least active volcanoes on the planet.
When there are a couple hundred volcanoes across the globe, making a list of most active isn’t exactly hard. Are we really surprised?
In the White Island video:
“You can’t tell your mom this happened.”
😂 thanks for that
Finally someone understands what "Caught On Camera" means.
I know no one that doesn't know what caught on camera means . Is this a joke?
@RobertSmith-oc5nf most vids that say natural disasters "caught on camera" doesn't actually show any footage it shows stock footage of random stuff that most times doesn't depict what they are talking about and someone just tells a story over the pictures they show
No.8 is one of my favourite Eruptions caught on Video! The Shockwave is awesome!
About the 1883 "eruption" of Krakatoa, the explosion was so powerful that the shock wave traveled the planet 8 times, seismographs in london england cought it and they thought it was an earthquake.
@Eperogi Limousine Thats what the documentary i saw said 🤷♀
Why was Krakatoa not No.1?
Probably because there was no footage. Video cameras were not around in 1883.
Krakatoa indonesia terkenal dengan suara yang sangat keras.. tetapi yang sangat mematikan adalah gunung berapi tambora indonesia yang abu vulkanik menghalangi matahari membuat musim dingin berkepanjangan tumbuhan tidak tumbuh kelaparan dimana-mana berlanjut kepada kematian
Tour guides were charged? How could they know the Zealand volcano was going to erupt?
Beautiful lightning 🥰
Ah, yeaaahhh!
On the new Britain one your can see the shock wave on the ground and see the clouds moving
Love the videos dude! Keep it up 👍🏻
Yeah
Dude keep it up and also make sure to hit that like button and turn on the notification bell for insane video s
Stromboli is like the sound it makes when erupting.