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 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.
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.
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.
@@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 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
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".
@@mikkolaine4883 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 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
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.
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.
6:32 "When do we get the boom?", immediately the boom follows lol It's amazing how long the delay was though, 13 seconds is a lot of time. With sound traveling 1 km every 3 seconds, they must have been over 4 kms away.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One of the very, VERY few 'Top 10 Worst' type videos that DIDN'T make a joke out of how dangerous or deadly natural events have been. In fact, the narrator went as far as to say "...even 1 life is too many' at the end of the vid. It's sad, but I'm surprised by this level of respect for the value of human life and the trauma the loss of land and property causes people being shown in this type of video. Thank you for that!!
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.
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. 😂
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.....
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
@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
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.
Underworld you're one of my absolute favorite channels love the voice could listen to you narrate the dictionary lol love the videos keep it up and change nothing 💯💯☠
Great video! I really enjoyed the unique footage you shared. But honestly, I think some of these eruptions are overhyped. Like, can we really call them the "top" when some of them didn’t have much impact? Just a thought!
10) Stromboli Eruption, Italy Activity: VEI 1 or 2 Height Ash Plume: 4 or 5 km 9) White Island / Whakaari Eruption, New Zealand Activity: VEI 4 (went back down to 2 after the Eruption calm down) Height Ash Plume: 3.7 Km 8) Mount Tavurvur Eruption, Papua New Guinea Activity: VEI 3 or 4 Height Ash Plume: 18 Km 7) Sakurajima / Cherry Blossom Eruption, Japan Activity: VEI 3 or 4 Height Ash Plume: 1 or 2 Km 6) eyjafjallajökull Eruption, Iceland Activity: VEI 4 Height Ash Plume: 8 or 9 Km 5) Monte / Mount Semeru Eruption, Indonesia Activity: VEI 3 Height Ash Plume: 15 Km 4) Krakatoa Eruption, Indonesia Activity: VEI 5 or 6 Height Ash Plume: 850 or 1250 Meters 3) Hunga Tonga Eruption, Tonga Activity: VEI 5 Height Ash Plume: 57 or 58 Km 2) Mount Shindake Eruption, Japan Activity: VEI 2 or 3 Height Ash Plume: 9 Km 1) Mount St. Helens, United States Activity: VEI 5 Height Ash Plume: 23.3 or 23.4 Km
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 🤯
The clip of the lava field at 10:11 does not belong to Eyjafjallajökull, as implied. It is at Landamannalaugar and is of the Laugahraun lava field which erupted from Brennisteinsalda around year 1477. ... just so you know. ;)
That footage of Anak Krakatau was truly spectacular! Tnanks for this video. Fun fact - White Island is privately owned AFAIK. The burns suffered by people caught in that eru[ption were not only from hot ash, rocks and steam but to cap it all off, the water and vapours were basically sulphuric acid which by itself would have been bad enough but effectively rubbed salt into the wounds. I remember seeing the terrible burns and injuries (skinned alive) of survivors on TV and also remember that materials for skin grafts were obtained from other countries as local burns surgeons did the amazing job of healing injured people over months. The agony must have been horrendous. More amazing still though is that litigation of authorities including GNS is ongoing. It is unbelievable that a scientific organization is being taken to task under health and safety legislation for being culpable when they are simply monitoring and garnering knowledge about our volcanic hotspots and hardly responsible for people knowingly walking into an active crater without understanding what the consequences might be. Shades of an Italian scientific establishment being sued for not predicting earthquakes. What ??????????
The White Island one, if you're going to go tour a volcano, be prepared for possible tragedy, and don't blame the tour guides. Adulthood is not a kindergarten class where adults hold your hand. You're supposed to be the adult.
Yeah I get that but the tour guides also died and I think it was out of treating it too casually even though they knew the risk. And because of that they downplayed the possibility of eruption and didn’t explain that Level 2 means it’s going to erupt any day now that’s clear from the interviews. I overall agree though because you should always do research on everything before going and then at least you have informed risk when you sign the waivers. Especially the families that brought kids, that’s on the adults for not checking and asking and even pushing. I feel like the travelers who were worried should not have signed the paper - it’s not worth the photos and views
The day Mt. St. Helens erupted was the day my dad got chased out of my grandparents home by my grandma wielding an iron frying pan. Then he rolled his car and was brought back from the hospital by my grandpa to stay and recover. Grandma kept a very close eye on him and six months later, he became her son in law.
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.
I had a grandmother, an uncle, and an aunt who lived in Puyallup and Redmond at the time of the St. Helens eruption. Thankfully, they pulled through OK. As bad as the event itself was, my grandma grew the best potatoes I've ever had in that crumbly volcanic soil. 😎👍
it looks slow, because it is very distant, and rocks are very large (like small houses or so). Specifically, Anak Krakatoa was over 300 metres high. So these large stones was actually catapulted 600 metres into high, so it only look they fall slowly. They had to fall accross 600 metres of distance. If they fall after 10 seconds, they have to fall 60 metres per seconds. That's like the speed of an arrow shot from bow.
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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.
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.
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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
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.
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.
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 🥲
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".
@@mikkolaine4883 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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@4:03 "You can't tell your mom this happened." Mom turns on TV *click*
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
Human: Look, exploding mountain. I want to live there. I build house there.
😂😂😂😂😂
Usually fertile ground there
@@springbokgaming7891 volcanic ash bring more benefit to the environment than human
Volcanic loam soil is very fertile
😂😂😂
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Girl: "You can't tell your mom this happened"
Netflix: I'll tell her
4:03 “you can’t tell your mum this happened” she’ll never let you travel again 😂
That was cool 😎
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.
6:32 "When do we get the boom?", immediately the boom follows lol
It's amazing how long the delay was though, 13 seconds is a lot of time. With sound traveling 1 km every 3 seconds, they must have been over 4 kms away.
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.
I love your videos about volcanos sooo much, trank you!!😀
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
4:03
His freind : you can't tell your mom this happened .
He be like : LIKE YOU CAN HA???🤕😑
Beautiful lightning 🥰
Ah, yeaaahhh!
Props to the narrator for all these videos. Nice to listen to, great oratory skills 👍🏻👍🏻
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.
cameraman’s never dies!
the cameraman in stromboli after seeing this:
1:14
One of the very, VERY few 'Top 10 Worst' type videos that DIDN'T make a joke out of how dangerous or deadly natural events have been. In fact, the narrator went as far as to say "...even 1 life is too many' at the end of the vid. It's sad, but I'm surprised by this level of respect for the value of human life and the trauma the loss of land and property causes people being shown in this type of video. Thank you for that!!
The Krakatoa footage was pretty cool.
I wonder how long it took for you to master pronouncing the Icelandic volcano throughout the years of this channel
6:18 is how I thought all volcanoes erupted as a kid lol
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.
Fascinating, thank you.
Amazing video showing the formation of volcanic islands. It’s incredible to see how new land is created by these natural events. 15:26
Did nobody noticed the Dragon Ball Super Truck at 13:18?😂😂😅
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. 😂
Excellent video ! By the way, who speaks in the video is Andrew Price, from Blender Guru ? I think is him talking, am I right ?
You have to be in awe of the power of nature, great video.
Forever a fan!
that Krakatoa footage was pure perfection
The Krakatoa eruption video was stunning. What a piece of luck. Volcanos showing just how insignificant we are.
This is some awesome footage.
2:33 been there [not on it XD]
I seen it from a beach and it was smoking [as usual] 😂😂
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.....
As an Italian, I get hives every time the narrator says Strombóli instead of the correct Stròmboli.😂😂😂😂
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
Excellent video, thanks.
What is the music?
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
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.
I was going to say.. what happened to Mount Saint Helen? I live on the east coast. We had the smoke and ash all the way over here.. 👍
What do you mean? It's at #1!!!
@@cathyvickers9063 never knew it was going to be number 1.. wasn’t meant to be silly. I was glad it was 🙂✌️
Almost didn’t include it since we have covered it at least 5 times now but it had to make the cut!
@@Underworld5s I would’ve included the 1944 eruption of Vesuvius
@@Underworld5s That's what I was thinking. But I guess it's VEI ranking meant that it had to be included.
WOW, Great video.
These are definitely some of the volcanic eruptions of all time.
Very cool 😎👍😎👍😎👍
I can’t believe I never saw that footage of Anak Krakatau before. That was incredible!
Very, very interesting. 👌🇫🇷
That time lapse for the boom.Reminds me of whether your absence from a forest means theres no noise
Thank you , good video
Underworld you're one of my absolute favorite channels love the voice could listen to you narrate the dictionary lol love the videos keep it up and change nothing 💯💯☠
Great video! I really enjoyed the unique footage you shared. But honestly, I think some of these eruptions are overhyped. Like, can we really call them the "top" when some of them didn’t have much impact? Just a thought!
The pressure being released is just amazing.
@@steverockwell5074 I Agree. Lol.
Wow! 😮
7:40 looks like the black cloud/pressure is so strong it simply evaporates the air around it
In the White Island video:
“You can’t tell your mom this happened.”
😂 thanks for that
i live in java island, and already saw several major/medium eruption with my own eyes...
Are we talking about Krakatoa?
Ask the volcano for a caldera-forming-eruption!
@@aaron-damonkassner4715 major one mt. merapi, mt. kelud... and smaller eruption like mt. tangkuban perahu, mt. papandayan, and mt. slamet...
I'm not supposed to be able to comment but here I am
15:20 -- the sexiest eruption ever caught on camera.
Yes, lava is what we all want! Forget the dust and ashes
Some of these island and volcano names sound like noises someone might make while trying to talk through a violent sneeze 😂
10) Stromboli Eruption, Italy
Activity: VEI 1 or 2
Height Ash Plume: 4 or 5 km
9) White Island / Whakaari Eruption, New Zealand
Activity: VEI 4 (went back down to 2 after the Eruption calm down)
Height Ash Plume: 3.7 Km
8) Mount Tavurvur Eruption, Papua New Guinea
Activity: VEI 3 or 4
Height Ash Plume: 18 Km
7) Sakurajima / Cherry Blossom Eruption, Japan
Activity: VEI 3 or 4
Height Ash Plume: 1 or 2 Km
6) eyjafjallajökull Eruption, Iceland
Activity: VEI 4
Height Ash Plume: 8 or 9 Km
5) Monte / Mount Semeru Eruption, Indonesia
Activity: VEI 3
Height Ash Plume: 15 Km
4) Krakatoa Eruption, Indonesia
Activity: VEI 5 or 6
Height Ash Plume: 850 or 1250 Meters
3) Hunga Tonga Eruption, Tonga
Activity: VEI 5
Height Ash Plume: 57 or 58 Km
2) Mount Shindake Eruption, Japan
Activity: VEI 2 or 3
Height Ash Plume: 9 Km
1) Mount St. Helens, United States
Activity: VEI 5
Height Ash Plume: 23.3 or 23.4 Km
anak krakatoa 2018 was nowhere near a VEI 5; 1883 krakatoa was a definite 6
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 🤯
The destrucive power of these things always amazes me. Love volcanoes 🥰
I hate them ! They are the first step into satins house ! Burn baby burn !
destructive indeed but above all constructive. Without volcanoes no oxygen , no soil , no fertility , no life
21:28 I was a 4yo girl watching the news in Chicago when this happened.
The clip of the lava field at 10:11 does not belong to Eyjafjallajökull, as implied. It is at Landamannalaugar and is of the Laugahraun lava field which erupted from Brennisteinsalda around year 1477. ... just so you know. ;)
People from Iceland must be formidable spellers.
WoW!!!!
The Krakatoa Volcano eruption is very incredible, especially seeing strikes of lightning within the lava. 😮
‘You can’t telll your mom this happened’ cracked me up lol
That footage of Anak Krakatau was truly spectacular! Tnanks for this video.
Fun fact - White Island is privately owned AFAIK.
The burns suffered by people caught in that eru[ption were not only from hot ash, rocks and steam but to cap it all off, the water and vapours were basically sulphuric acid which by itself would have been bad enough but effectively rubbed salt into the wounds. I remember seeing the terrible burns and injuries (skinned alive) of survivors on TV and also remember that materials for skin grafts were obtained from other countries as local burns surgeons did the amazing job of healing injured people over months. The agony must have been horrendous.
More amazing still though is that litigation of authorities including GNS is ongoing. It is unbelievable that a scientific organization is being taken to task under health and safety legislation for being culpable when they are simply monitoring and garnering knowledge about our volcanic hotspots and hardly responsible for people knowingly walking into an active crater without understanding what the consequences might be. Shades of an Italian scientific establishment being sued for not predicting earthquakes. What ??????????
I've scalded myself very bad in my life. It IS very painful!
Being scalded/burned alive is one of my worst fears!
The White Island one, if you're going to go tour a volcano, be prepared for possible tragedy, and don't blame the tour guides. Adulthood is not a kindergarten class where adults hold your hand. You're supposed to be the adult.
Yeah I get that but the tour guides also died and I think it was out of treating it too casually even though they knew the risk. And because of that they downplayed the possibility of eruption and didn’t explain that Level 2 means it’s going to erupt any day now that’s clear from the interviews. I overall agree though because you should always do research on everything before going and then at least you have informed risk when you sign the waivers. Especially the families that brought kids, that’s on the adults for not checking and asking and even pushing. I feel like the travelers who were worried should not have signed the paper - it’s not worth the photos and views
The day Mt. St. Helens erupted was the day my dad got chased out of my grandparents home by my grandma wielding an iron frying pan.
Then he rolled his car and was brought back from the hospital by my grandpa to stay and recover. Grandma kept a very close eye on him and six months later, he became her son in law.
Awesome story!
@@jaywade3242 It’s a true story too. My dad calls my Grandma Mom.
This video was very interesting. Great job to the creators and everyone who worked on this! Or if it’s one person. Even more props to you
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...
wow what a good volclano❤
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.
You can’t tell your mom this happened 😂😂
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
how cool
1:14 - that shockwave on the live camera....crazy.
Bros turned into geiger counter💀💀💀
How can something so dangerous look so beautiful and mesmerizing??
if dangerous, why friend shaped?
Very informative! Thanks👍🏾
I had a grandmother, an uncle, and an aunt who lived in Puyallup and Redmond at the time of the St. Helens eruption. Thankfully, they pulled through OK. As bad as the event itself was, my grandma grew the best potatoes I've ever had in that crumbly volcanic soil. 😎👍
i d admit, that sound accompaniment to this video is just perfect. thanx.
Why a rock fall look slowly 6:33 and 15:05 that so Beautiful video
it looks slow, because it is very distant, and rocks are very large (like small houses or so).
Specifically, Anak Krakatoa was over 300 metres high. So these large stones was actually catapulted 600 metres into high, so it only look they fall slowly. They had to fall accross 600 metres of distance. If they fall after 10 seconds, they have to fall 60 metres per seconds. That's like the speed of an arrow shot from bow.
Today, 6/2/25 Stromboli blew big time! It it really cool looking! 😁
Maybe you can include the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo
I moved to the P.I. in 1991, just after Pinatubo erupted. The ash was everywhere and lahar flows were so scary!
15:35 - THAT was a spectacularly captured eruption. 😊