Unexpected phreatomagmatic eruption at Tall volcano in the Philippines.

Taal Volcano in Batangas City, the Philippines, experienced three minor eruptions yesterday, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). Phivolcs recorded a minor phreatic eruption at 2:55 a.m., followed by two minor phreatomagmatic eruptions at 8:13 a.m. and 8:20 a.m. at the volcano’s main crater, News.Az reports, citing foreign media. These events produced ash plumes reaching up to 2,100 meters high. In its 24-hour observation bulletin, Phivolcs recorded nine volcanic earthquakes, including two volcanic tremors that lasted up to 96 minutes. The agency also noted a short-term inflation, or slight swelling, of Taal Volcano Island source : https://news.az/news/taal-volcano-in-the-philippines-logs-minor-eruptions-video

If that’s “minor”, I hate to think what would’ve happened to these guys in a major eruption.

Just a minor 2km high explosion.

2 km is minor. Pinatubo reached like 20 km up. And that was small compared to the REALLY big ones like Tambora.

Or Toba.

I live 20km away from this volcano, a couple months before the pandemic this volcano had a much bigger eruption and there was heavy ashfall for like 3 days, with some even reaching manila around 50km away. Everyone had to buy face masks to go out in public which in a way prepared us for covid that happened months after

In 1991 Mt. Pinatubo erupted and brought down global temperatues by 0.5°C for 1-2 yrs.

It also buried a Catholic church half way up.

And most, if not all, of Clark Air Base…

So you’re saying a few of those will fix global warming!

Enough of them would fix it permanently.

Why do people always gotta make these lame ass jokes? Yes particles in the atmosphere would cool the earth, temporarily, also harming all nearby life, air quality and disrupting global travel depending on the severity. But when they do eventually calm down and the atmosphere clears up, the world is more polluted and on a faster course to our inevitable self inflicted demise. Warming is a natural phenomenon, humans have just sped it up to a statistically alarming rate. The amount of volcanoes needed to erupt to halt/stop climate change would just utterly fuck up most life as we know it. If you like anything that needs the sun you shouldn’t be rooting for volcanos to save us.

You must be fun at a party

Check my karma, I am. If you think that was clever or funny you’re not so fun at parties my stranger.

“Check my karma”, that is something else.

I’m not sure what kind of parties you go to where having interesting conversations about diverse topics isn’t interesting, but people who say “you must be fun at parties” don’t really get invited to parties do they?

You’re just replying way too serious to something which was a silly joke and you keep going.

Dude in the boat knows a thing or two about pyroclastic flow.

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But at the same time, from watching this video I can better understand how it can hypnotize you in fear, and just standing there.

for real, that guy’s got some serious volcano knowledge, lol

To be fair, Taal has erupted quite a few times the past few years. Probably picked up some knowledge from that

I wonder how long it lasts once it gets over that (relatively) cold water. I would think it would cool and settle, probably while creating a massive stream cloud.

It depends on the type of and power of the eruption. From what I remember. some can travel hundreds of miles over open water.

Truly terrifying

Looks like it does slow it down a bit. And you can definitely see steam clouds when it hits. Internet seems to indicate it turns to mud more than additional gas. Pretty cool though, Pompeii must have been terrifying. https://youtu.be/QX67gXcFm38?si=YGOyB4c9hZoT_4Vo

Well, nature is metal after all.

From what I can remember, a pyroclastic flow travelling over water can create a blanket of steam underneath it due to the heat of the gasses and such in the flow interacting with the water. Which can cause the flow to travel a long way over bodies of water.

I don’t speak the language, but I’m sure he’s saying “LETS GO!” over and over. Possibly “HURRY THE FUCK UP”

>I don’t speak the language, but I’m sure he’s saying “LETS GO!” over and over. Possibly “HURRY THE FUCK UP” I heard him say “takbo” which means “run”. I also heard him say “diyos ko po” which means “my god”, or “oh my god”. “diyos” means “god”, borrowed from Spanish “dios”. “ko” here means “my”. “po” doesn’t really mean anything but it is used to show respect, typically to the person being addressed. I also heard him say other things but I don’t understand.