I've been to Tabernacle Hill (TAB-er-NAC-le), great spot. Rough drive in, best to have high clearance, but there are several lava tubs in the area as well!
When I was in the Coast Guard I worked at the Aids to Navigation team. We had a light on this Molokini. This island is the best snorkeling on the planet. Another feature on Oahu that is amazing is Hanauma bay.
Had the chance many years ago to snorkel in the Molokini crater. It's remarkably beautiful and if you have the opportunity to go there, don't pass it up.
Yes, I went 38 years ago. Beautiful! Too bad the coral is bleached now from sunscreen ingredients that hopefully will be banned soon. Too little, too late.
Wow, a Maui GeologyHub EP! Fantastic -- can actually see Molokini from my patio 😀 The summit view from the caldera rim of Haleakala at sunrise is an amazing sight, esp if the cloud layer's formed just right... and after dark, the staggering clarity of the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds, is an abiding memory from years as a bicycle tour guide from the Nat'l Park in the '90s (don't think such tours are allowed now). Seeing Comet Hyakutake stretch nearly horizon-to-horizon just before 5am from the crater rim parking lot, is definitely burned in for life. Thanks for another HI State topic! 👍🌺👍
I doubted, so I looked it up. You CAN see the Magellanic Clouds just kiss the horizon at 20 deg north, and Hawaii is around 19! It's only for a very brief few minutes until they set again, though. I'm around 28 deg north, so just missed them, darn it (like you could even see them in my city, can barely see the Moon!).
You can see Molokini from the resorts on the south side of the island. The diving inside the crater is beautiful, and is accessible to beginning divers. I seem to remember that the crater is 30 feet deep. Advanced divers can drive the wall on the back side of the crescent, which is clear most days down to 120' or more, though it's never recommended to dive below 120' without special training. You can get a trip out to Molokini from dive companies in the harbor at Maakena, north of Kiheh.
@@PhilSallaway Oh, I know Phil. I've seen it and it is fascinating, which can be dangerous when you're that deep. As for the crater, I was inside only twice and there were new divers with the party, so the divemaster kept us shallow. Still, we saw a turtle the first time out -- talk about lucky. The last time was in 1989, when there were only 2 small resorts in Wailea -- an Intercontinental and a Stouffers. I'll bet the crater is much busier these days with all the big, new places down there.
Fun fact the navy used that island as target practice during WW2 and lots of subs used it to. That how the boats get into the crater, they use the explosion paths of the torpedoes to get in.
Love your videos! I know the pronunciation of Hawaiian name places can be difficult and I give you credit for doing your best! With Mauna Kea it's not like "key" it's more like "k'ah"
I have a poster of Molokini on my wall at work. It is an aerial shot promoting LaHaina Divers. I dove their years ago and the Visibility was around 200 ft. the best Vis I've seen.
Thank you very much for another Hawaii volcano videos per my request yesterday. 🤙🏻 Many people don’t realize how many submarine volcanoes the State of Hawaii has all around the islands. 🤙🏻
Update: Recently, a few months ago, there was a great get together with our neighbors here up on Tantalus, a very nice dinner and great conversations but another neighbor was talking about the fact that they have more than five bathrooms but that they complained about the Sulfur smells while using their shower and the yellow stains that forms on the shower walls. I mentioned that before also. It’s a reminder that the island of Oahu was formed by two major volcanoes and that these volcanoes are not completely dead yet…😮
2:20 Just to point out (astronomer here!), "gibbous" means the Moon is more than half-illuminated, while "waxing" and "waning" refer to whether it's currently becoming more or less illuminated. (Which would work if the part above water was the _shadowed_ portion of the Moon, but is the opposite of how you described it as "its surface above sea level".) Great video though, just wanted to clear that up! :)
Yes, the island is just crescent-shaped, not gibbous. Btw., as a German amateur astronomer, I am a little bit sad that my language has no equivalent for "gibbous moon".
Would you do a video on Moloka'i? When you talked about the Nu'uanu slide, you reminded me that was not the only big cataclysmic slide to happen in Hawai'i.
Years ago, I was able to scuba dive at Molokini. The cone has extremely steep sides, and it is easy to go too deep. I could see the abyss below me, and it almost drew me in.
I absolutely LOVE that you are covering Hawaiian geology. I would love give you some tips on pronouncing the Hawaiian names, they certainly aren’t easy to say!
I'm surprised at how active Haleakala is. I expected it to be considered more active than Mauna Kea, but more than Hualalai with an eruption only around 500 years old is quite impressive. Quite strange that its so active for being so far away from the hotspot while closer volcanoes are either less active (Hualalai), extremely quiescent (Mauna Kea) and fully extinct (Kohala).
@@SinnerChrono I love the VEI, I always explain it to people something like this: VEI 1: Effusive VEI 2: Eruptive VEI 3: Explosive VEI 4: Catastrophic VEI 5: Colossal VEI 6: Ultra Colossal VEI 7: Cataclysmic VEI 8: _The END of the Fucking WORLD_
I dove both the front and back sides of molokini crater in 1986 with a married couple of marine biologists. The only boat there those days. The sound of the whale song was so loud and looking out into the black of the near vertical drop to thousands of feet with 300 foot visibility terrified me.
I'd love to hear a video from Geologyhub on the topic of magma interactions with petroleum deposits, coal, or even peet bogs if there has been any occurrence of these.
Dove Molokini's backside, it's not a typical site most would associate with SCUBA with many corals and colorful fish, at least not outside the crater. It's still breathtaking in it's own way. Seeing the back wall descending into a black abyss is incredible. It's also the first dive I encountered black tip reef sharks. They were between 6 and 8 feet long and were swimming about 6 feet above us following our bubbles.
I didn't know Haleakala was more active than Hualalai, I figured it was between it and Mauna Kea in eruption frequency or less than both. I'm suprised it's that active despite the fact that it should be further away from the magma supply than the remaining active volcanoes on Big Island.
Fun fact, there's a 500lb bomb encased in concrete at the bottom of Molokini crater. My dad was Navy EOD and did the assessment dive for it, the crater used to be an aircraft target range during WWII and the bomb was still live when they found it, they couldn't move it so they just encased it in underwater/sea concrete.
Just west of Molokini is the island of Kaho'olawe, which, unlike Molokini, was not created by Haleakala volcanics, but is, instead, a separate shield volcano of its own. It is believed that after creating Oahu, the Hawaiian hotspot split into two paths--designated the Loa path and the Kea path. The Loa path took the southerly/western route and created West Molokai, Lanai, Kaho'olawe, Mahukona, Hualalai, Mauna Loa, and Loihi volcanos. The Kea path took the northerly/eastern route and created the East Molokai, West Maui, Haleakala, Kohala, Mauna Kea, and Kilauea volcanos.
Interesting video. As a suggestion I was just looking at my photos from a trip to El Pinacate Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. Have you done a video on it? I don't think many people know about it and they should. I think it is still active too.
Another hallmark of Surtseyan eruptions are pine tree shaped explosive ejections of ash, gas, steam, and rock. This eruptive behaviour was displayed by Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai in the immediate lead up to its climactic eruption in January 2022.
They might be suggestive of a wet suit. It a cash cow for the outfits. My wife n I went there in 2017 in the late Fall we didn't bother with wearing any, & we were fine. The water wasn't that cold. The water around that little island is shelter a bit, but be careful where the waters are not sheltered as the currents near Maui are VERY strong, & will ware you out fast.
1790 date is based on a combination of oral traditions and a lava flow that appears on maps following that date. Carbon dating of the flow, however, points to the earlier date, suggesting the map was just inaccurate like many of the maps at the time were
Waiting for Kilauea to erupt is a weekly event, Waiting for Mauna Loa to erupt is twice in a life time event. Waiting for Haleakala to erupt, not impossible. 3 times in last 1-thousand years.
Similar to Molokini, Hawaii's 6th and newest volcano is just off the west/southwest coast of the big island. Loihi is also a submarine volcano and is active.
According to several tour guides and a helicopter pilot I met while on vacation on Maui, Molokini was also used as target practice for bombers in the years leading up to the Second World War.
Can you do a special video of the two very old volcanoes in a t and NH. Mt Ascutany in VT and Mt Sunapee in NH. They stand out from any other mountains in the region
Can someone explain how this text-to-voice software does a better job with, "Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai," than it does with the common word, "tabernacle?"
I think this is a real person? I know he did a TH-cam Live video from Iceland 🇮🇸 volcanos 🌋 a few months back, appearing on camera himself for the first time I’m aware of.
Agreed, for being the third-most active volcano in Hawaii it's talked about far too little and there's not all that much information easily accesible on it either.
Hi ! would please show how is Molokini crater is under the water? I mean, with no water, how does it look like? I was trying to get any info but there is not much about it, just good pictures from above. Thanks!
Could you cover Ascension Island? I inherited a Stamp collection themed on geology and I'm in the process of cataloging and having an expert help with storage. Unfortunately there's not anywhere I feel comfortable donating to as stamps aren't popular enough.
I'm not sure what the depth of the ocean is around Molokini but the sea level was about 450' less 12,600 years and older. You could walk from Maui to Molokai. That would mean that Molokini was not a underwater eruption. Mahalo
Always find your videos fascinating and as I know you value making the correct pronunciations, if I could just point out 'Tabernacle' is said 'Tabbur-Nackul' and not 'Taybur-Naykul' :)
Sounds like a good name for a drink lol. It may be, I wouldn't know. Thinking of Moloko Plus (or Knifey Moloko), a drug in the film A Clockwork Orange, but served as a bar drink with sedatives mixed in.
Trying to catch up, and boy have I got a lot to catch up on, now! Wow! It's pretty cool seeing these individual videos for the lesser-known Hawaiian volcanoes, for sure. The "extinct" labels for some of the world's volcanoes sometimes makes me a bit suspicious of them, and nervous that they may change their magmatic minds. 🤨🤔 Anyway, leaving a like and comment for each one, to help with that Almighty Algorithm that constantly demands to be fed.
it would be cool if you mentioned more about the historical history of molokini and the high powered ammunitions/bombs that were dropped on it for practice, under our US occupation during the world wars because it is gorgeous people should know we have the need to protect it and is threatened.
I don’t think it had been confirmed by the USGS just yet but people all over Baldwin county in southern alabama felt a small quake a little after 11:00am Central. We heard some deep rumbling and all of the lights in our building started swaying back and forth. Not super exciting but interesting given the fact that this area isn’t prone to seismic activity at all.
I've done some digging on the USGS website which updates earthquakes in real-time, and I can't find any quakes in Alabama today, just one in western TX. Strange.
@@Sptn051 Yeah I’ve just now submitted an incident report to the website. Some people thought it may have been sonic booms but if it were then it wouldn’t have been felt all over the county. I’ve heard that people as far away as Milton Florida felt it as well but I’m not sure how true that is.
@@hazerod833 Oh that's great, they'll be happy to investigate your report and hopefully provide some answers. If the quake was large enough they very well could have felt it in FL. I'm an amateur geologist and from what I understand the vast majority of the bedrock from the Mississippi River, east, is granite. Unlike the sandstone out West, the granite out here carries the sound waves much further. There was an event, 8.9 magnitude, that happened near Paducah, KY back during the 1810's and it rung church bells in their steeples as far away as Montreal. Seismology is wild. :)
@@Sptn051 Very cool! I was not aware of that before so thank you. The only seismic report I can find is on a somewhat sketchy website but at the moment it says that it was an estimated 3.8 magnitude with a currently unknown but estimated depth of 20km, centered 4.1 miles east of Foley, Alabama. Which is where I was when it took place. There are no fault lines in that location that I’m aware of so I’m almost positive that the location it said is a little incorrect. But I’m also a young guy with no education in geology so 🤷🏻♂️
You might look into the Eastern Tennessee Seismic zone. It definitely cuts down into northern Alabama, but I didn't look up your exactly location in comparison. Seismic zones like that typically have a parent structure or two, and then a halo of small sister faults parallel to the primary suture...maybe movement on one of those led to your felt event!
No I'm probably wrong, but which one of the Hawaiian Islands (not the big island) erupted in 1700 I always thought that was Maui. I guess I was incorrect if you say 1540ish. Or am I thinking of another island.
Dude you've gotta get rid of that red banner in your video thumbnails. It makes it look like I've watched the upload already. You may be hurting your views
Agreed. Any other color would work better. Or, he could invert the colors, so that it's white leading to red. The way it is now, it looks like we've watched half the video already.
By the way, I always wondered: how does the size of Mauna Loa, _and_ the Big Island, compare to the size of older volcanoes/islands on the island chain when those were young?
Puhahonu is a seamount in the Hawaiian chain that some research suggests was once the world's largest shield volcano, nearly twice as big as Mauna Loa. Its eroded remnants are called the Gardner Pinnacles. Info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Pinnacles
My friend I love your videos but it is pronounced Tab er na c le. It is a religious word with deep meaning to several faiths and I don’t want you to accidentally offended someone when I know you don’t mean to. Your volcano videos are awesome though please keep up the good work!
"Geologic oddity", "luckily will never erupt again"... God this Guy has me splitting my sides in giggle fits with nearly every Video he does. "Please support me with money."🤣😂🤣 It's almost like paying for Pfizer to tell you something is "safe and effective"🙄
What are the odds I was just checking this out on Google Earth not 48 hours ago puzzled by it and and lo and behold this video drops thank you!! And are there any volcanoes in Greenland???
I've been to Tabernacle Hill (TAB-er-NAC-le), great spot. Rough drive in, best to have high clearance, but there are several lava tubs in the area as well!
Thanks!
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When I was in the Coast Guard I worked at the Aids to Navigation team. We had a light on this Molokini. This island is the best snorkeling on the planet. Another feature on Oahu that is amazing is Hanauma bay.
Had the chance many years ago to snorkel in the Molokini crater. It's remarkably beautiful and if you have the opportunity to go there, don't pass it up.
Yes, I went 38 years ago. Beautiful! Too bad the coral is bleached now from sunscreen ingredients that hopefully will be banned soon. Too little, too late.
Wow, a Maui GeologyHub EP! Fantastic -- can actually see Molokini from my patio 😀 The summit view from the caldera rim of Haleakala at sunrise is an amazing sight, esp if the cloud layer's formed just right... and after dark, the staggering clarity of the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds, is an abiding memory from years as a bicycle tour guide from the Nat'l Park in the '90s (don't think such tours are allowed now). Seeing Comet Hyakutake stretch nearly horizon-to-horizon just before 5am from the crater rim parking lot, is definitely burned in for life. Thanks for another HI State topic! 👍🌺👍
Oh man am I glad you commented. I had no idea you can see the Magellan clouds from Hawaii! I thought you had to go below the equator for that.
I doubted, so I looked it up. You CAN see the Magellanic Clouds just kiss the horizon at 20 deg north, and Hawaii is around 19! It's only for a very brief few minutes until they set again, though. I'm around 28 deg north, so just missed them, darn it (like you could even see them in my city, can barely see the Moon!).
Maui No Ka 'Oi
I appreciate the rock composition chart at the end. Thanks!
Would you possibly do a video on a mysterious eruption in Hawaii that happened in 1955-56 in between the islands of Oahu and Kauai?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Hawaiian_submarine_eruption
I think he has already made a video about that
I have an older video on this topic. I believe it to be the Kaena volcano.
Based on the Wikipedia article, it was fair distance northwest of Kauai, not in between Oahu and Kauai.
Probably nuclear test. ;)
You can see Molokini from the resorts on the south side of the island. The diving inside the crater is beautiful, and is accessible to beginning divers. I seem to remember that the crater is 30 feet deep. Advanced divers can drive the wall on the back side of the crescent, which is clear most days down to 120' or more, though it's never recommended to dive below 120' without special training. You can get a trip out to Molokini from dive companies in the harbor at Maakena, north of Kiheh.
Parts of the crater are deeper and the wall on the backside drops off way more than 120 ft as you move away from the wall
@@PhilSallaway Oh, I know Phil. I've seen it and it is fascinating, which can be dangerous when you're that deep. As for the crater, I was inside only twice and there were new divers with the party, so the divemaster kept us shallow. Still, we saw a turtle the first time out -- talk about lucky. The last time was in 1989, when there were only 2 small resorts in Wailea -- an Intercontinental and a Stouffers. I'll bet the crater is much busier these days with all the big, new places down there.
I only snorkel, but what a great spot! Booking my flight... I wish.
@@PhilSallaway It's so creepy.
@@kwgm8578 ^
Fun fact the navy used that island as target practice during WW2 and lots of subs used it to. That how the boats get into the crater, they use the explosion paths of the torpedoes to get in.
Mahalo for another interesting video. I had no idea that this was how Molokini was formed.
Again, Absolutely brilliant 🤙🏿💯🌋
GH, you have absolutely _mastered_ pronouncing the name of the volcano in Tonga.
Hawai'i Geology, Volcanology and Oceanography is curious and riveting.
Thanks for doing this series on Hawaii! Love seeing my home get some shine.
Love your videos! I know the pronunciation of Hawaiian name places can be difficult and I give you credit for doing your best!
With Mauna Kea it's not like "key" it's more like "k'ah"
I snorkeled Molokini and it is mind numbing under the water. Perfect video to complete the curiosity journey of Molokini! Thank you!!
Mind numbing or mind blowing? Very different meanings!
I have a poster of Molokini on my wall at work. It is an aerial shot promoting LaHaina Divers. I dove their years ago and the Visibility was around 200 ft. the best Vis I've seen.
Thank you very much for another Hawaii volcano videos per my request yesterday. 🤙🏻
Many people don’t realize how many submarine volcanoes the State of Hawaii has all around the islands. 🤙🏻
Update:
Recently, a few months ago, there was a great get together with our neighbors here up on Tantalus, a very nice dinner and great conversations but another neighbor was talking about the fact that they have more than five bathrooms but that they complained about the Sulfur smells while using their shower and the yellow stains that forms on the shower walls. I mentioned that before also.
It’s a reminder that the island of Oahu was formed by two major volcanoes and that these volcanoes are not completely dead yet…😮
2:20 Just to point out (astronomer here!), "gibbous" means the Moon is more than half-illuminated, while "waxing" and "waning" refer to whether it's currently becoming more or less illuminated. (Which would work if the part above water was the _shadowed_ portion of the Moon, but is the opposite of how you described it as "its surface above sea level".) Great video though, just wanted to clear that up! :)
Yes, the island is just crescent-shaped, not gibbous. Btw., as a German amateur astronomer, I am a little bit sad that my language has no equivalent for "gibbous moon".
Would you do a video on Moloka'i? When you talked about the Nu'uanu slide, you reminded me that was not the only big cataclysmic slide to happen in Hawai'i.
It is odd i was looking at this feature on Google maps thinking when you would do a video on this feature... good timing 🤣🤣
So stoked on this video.
Years ago, I was able to scuba dive at Molokini. The cone has extremely steep sides, and it is easy to go too deep. I could see the abyss below me, and it almost drew me in.
If you haven't already done it, I'd love to know more about Mt. Erebus and Ross Island. Please and thank you!
If you could show me how to get an engine from a 1955 Buick out, I'd sure appreciate it.
@@R.U.1.2. aw, now a 65 Chevy would be one thing, but I don't know nothing about Buicks, lol.
I absolutely LOVE that you are covering Hawaiian geology. I would love give you some tips on pronouncing the Hawaiian names, they certainly aren’t easy to say!
I'm surprised at how active Haleakala is. I expected it to be considered more active than Mauna Kea, but more than Hualalai with an eruption only around 500 years old is quite impressive. Quite strange that its so active for being so far away from the hotspot while closer volcanoes are either less active (Hualalai), extremely quiescent (Mauna Kea) and fully extinct (Kohala).
Interesting. I would like to see a episode about odd and unusual chemistry of volcanoes like rare elements odd colors from gasses etc.
I can see Molokini from my lanai. Thanks for the history and Aloha!
Volcanoes that effusively erupt are cool, but I like explosive eruptions a bit more.
I think most of us do lol
@@SinnerChrono I love the VEI, I always explain it to people something like this:
VEI 1: Effusive
VEI 2: Eruptive
VEI 3: Explosive
VEI 4: Catastrophic
VEI 5: Colossal
VEI 6: Ultra Colossal
VEI 7: Cataclysmic
VEI 8: _The END of the Fucking WORLD_
I dove both the front and back sides of molokini crater in 1986 with a married couple of marine biologists. The only boat there those days. The sound of the whale song was so loud and looking out into the black of the near vertical drop to thousands of feet with 300 foot visibility terrified me.
Thank you. i found this one highly informative in both the specifics of Molokini and generalities of tuff rings !:-)
I've been to Molokini. It's very beautiful. The cruise is worth it.
I'd love to hear a video from Geologyhub on the topic of magma interactions with petroleum deposits, coal, or even peet bogs if there has been any occurrence of these.
Dove Molokini's backside, it's not a typical site most would associate with SCUBA with many corals and colorful fish, at least not outside the crater. It's still breathtaking in it's own way. Seeing the back wall descending into a black abyss is incredible. It's also the first dive I encountered black tip reef sharks. They were between 6 and 8 feet long and were swimming about 6 feet above us following our bubbles.
I didn't know Haleakala was more active than Hualalai, I figured it was between it and Mauna Kea in eruption frequency or less than both. I'm suprised it's that active despite the fact that it should be further away from the magma supply than the remaining active volcanoes on Big Island.
good video - learned a few new things! also, haleakala is pronounced HA-le-a-ka-LA, with stress on the first and last syllable.
Fun fact, there's a 500lb bomb encased in concrete at the bottom of Molokini crater. My dad was Navy EOD and did the assessment dive for it, the crater used to be an aircraft target range during WWII and the bomb was still live when they found it, they couldn't move it so they just encased it in underwater/sea concrete.
Update on krakatoa
Been there!
Just west of Molokini is the island of Kaho'olawe, which, unlike Molokini, was not created by Haleakala volcanics, but is, instead, a separate shield volcano of its own. It is believed that after creating Oahu, the Hawaiian hotspot split into two paths--designated the Loa path and the Kea path. The Loa path took the southerly/western route and created West Molokai, Lanai, Kaho'olawe, Mahukona, Hualalai, Mauna Loa, and Loihi volcanos. The Kea path took the northerly/eastern route and created the East Molokai, West Maui, Haleakala, Kohala, Mauna Kea, and Kilauea volcanos.
Can you do a video on the science of Hawaiian rejuvenation eruptions? And why some don’t rejuvenate? Thanks.
GJ as always. FYI - Mauna Kea is pronounced KAY-ah not KEE-ah
Interesting video. As a suggestion I was just looking at my photos from a trip to El Pinacate Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. Have you done a video on it? I don't think many people know about it and they should. I think it is still active too.
2:56 Just an FYI, Tabernacle is actually pronounced tab-er-nak-uhl not tabe-er-nake-el. 8 )
Another hallmark of Surtseyan eruptions are pine tree shaped explosive ejections of ash, gas, steam, and rock. This eruptive behaviour was displayed by Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai in the immediate lead up to its climactic eruption in January 2022.
I live your videos. :) Mauna Kea is not pronounced that way, but I love your videos.
Sweet, I'm going to be snorkeling there in a couple weeks.
They might be suggestive of a wet suit. It a cash cow for the outfits. My wife n I went there in 2017 in the late Fall we didn't bother with wearing any, & we were fine. The water wasn't that cold. The water around that little island is shelter a bit, but be careful where the waters are not sheltered as the currents near Maui are VERY strong, & will ware you out fast.
I think the last time Haleakala erupted was in 1790. And it was in the southwest rift zone.
1790 date is based on a combination of oral traditions and a lava flow that appears on maps following that date. Carbon dating of the flow, however, points to the earlier date, suggesting the map was just inaccurate like many of the maps at the time were
@@joecorsaro1381 I think it was reported by sailors from the Vancouver visit.
Waiting for Kilauea to erupt is a weekly event, Waiting for Mauna Loa to erupt is twice in a life time event. Waiting for Haleakala to erupt, not impossible. 3 times in last 1-thousand years.
Yeah!!! the Return of Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai
My favorites to pronounce are Halema’uma’u and Pu’u O’ O’o but Hunga Tonga 🇹🇴 Hunga Ha’apai gets a close 3rd!! 😂 👏🏼
WOOO - I snorkeled in Molokini!! Awesome (but a bit cold) lol
Snorkeling in the water off of Molokini is fascinating.
Similar to Molokini, Hawaii's 6th and newest volcano is just off the west/southwest coast of the big island. Loihi is also a submarine volcano and is active.
Isn't it south east of Kiluaea?
@@BillasaurusRex Yes it is. It's Southwest of San Francisco, though.
According to several tour guides and a helicopter pilot I met while on vacation on Maui, Molokini was also used as target practice for bombers in the years leading up to the Second World War.
Would you please make a video about the Valles Caldera near Los Alamos, New Mexico? Thank you for your excellent videos.
Can you do a special video of the two very old volcanoes in a t and NH. Mt Ascutany in VT and Mt Sunapee in NH. They stand out from any other mountains in the region
There is another one on the north west side of Ni'ihau AKA The Forbiden Island and it's called Lehua.
Have you ever studied Devils Hole, Nevada, USA? Or have you ever made a video about it?
Can someone explain how this text-to-voice software does a better job with, "Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai," than it does with the common word, "tabernacle?"
I think this is a real person? I know he did a TH-cam Live video from Iceland 🇮🇸 volcanos 🌋 a few months back, appearing on camera himself for the first time I’m aware of.
Real person. Geologist.
More on haleakala, please
Agreed, for being the third-most active volcano in Hawaii it's talked about far too little and there's not all that much information easily accesible on it either.
Unrelated to anything, I just wanted to say that Haleakalā is my favorite volcano name.
Hi ! would please show how is Molokini crater is under the water? I mean, with no water, how does it look like? I was trying to get any info but there is not much about it, just good pictures from above. Thanks!
Could you cover Ascension Island? I inherited a Stamp collection themed on geology and I'm in the process of cataloging and having an expert help with storage. Unfortunately there's not anywhere I feel comfortable donating to as stamps aren't popular enough.
I'm not sure what the depth of the ocean is around Molokini but the sea level was about 450' less 12,600 years and older. You could walk from Maui to Molokai. That would mean that Molokini was not a underwater eruption.
Mahalo
2:58 Never heard "tabernacle" pronounced like that before.
Always find your videos fascinating and as I know you value making the correct pronunciations, if I could just point out 'Tabernacle' is said 'Tabbur-Nackul' and not 'Taybur-Naykul' :)
Sounds like a good name for a drink lol. It may be, I wouldn't know. Thinking of Moloko Plus (or Knifey Moloko), a drug in the film A Clockwork Orange, but served as a bar drink with sedatives mixed in.
'it'll never happen again' famous last words 🤣
Trying to catch up, and boy have I got a lot to catch up on, now! Wow! It's pretty cool seeing these individual videos for the lesser-known Hawaiian volcanoes, for sure. The "extinct" labels for some of the world's volcanoes sometimes makes me a bit suspicious of them, and nervous that they may change their magmatic minds. 🤨🤔
Anyway, leaving a like and comment for each one, to help with that Almighty Algorithm that constantly demands to be fed.
Gibbous moons are the opposite of crescent. 🌔
it would be cool if you mentioned more about the historical history of molokini and the high powered ammunitions/bombs that were dropped on it for practice, under our US occupation during the world wars because it is gorgeous people should know we have the need to protect it and is threatened.
im 31 was born in oahu and never heard of molokini till now lol
Wait...Oh I thought this was yesterdays video.
For future reference, the A in Tabernacle is a short A.
Think Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Or tab, as in a browser tab.
Not "Mormon Taybernacle Choir"? :P
@@thhseeking LOL
Want to know more about the biology of Molokini and why it is bare.
I dove Molokini, and it was sad. Most life was killed off by touching.
Yea because they just dump 1k tourists a day.
I don’t think it had been confirmed by the USGS just yet but people all over Baldwin county in southern alabama felt a small quake a little after 11:00am Central. We heard some deep rumbling and all of the lights in our building started swaying back and forth. Not super exciting but interesting given the fact that this area isn’t prone to seismic activity at all.
I've done some digging on the USGS website which updates earthquakes in real-time, and I can't find any quakes in Alabama today, just one in western TX. Strange.
@@Sptn051 Yeah I’ve just now submitted an incident report to the website. Some people thought it may have been sonic booms but if it were then it wouldn’t have been felt all over the county. I’ve heard that people as far away as Milton Florida felt it as well but I’m not sure how true that is.
@@hazerod833 Oh that's great, they'll be happy to investigate your report and hopefully provide some answers. If the quake was large enough they very well could have felt it in FL. I'm an amateur geologist and from what I understand the vast majority of the bedrock from the Mississippi River, east, is granite. Unlike the sandstone out West, the granite out here carries the sound waves much further. There was an event, 8.9 magnitude, that happened near Paducah, KY back during the 1810's and it rung church bells in their steeples as far away as Montreal. Seismology is wild. :)
@@Sptn051 Very cool! I was not aware of that before so thank you. The only seismic report I can find is on a somewhat sketchy website but at the moment it says that it was an estimated 3.8 magnitude with a currently unknown but estimated depth of 20km, centered 4.1 miles east of Foley, Alabama. Which is where I was when it took place. There are no fault lines in that location that I’m aware of so I’m almost positive that the location it said is a little incorrect. But I’m also a young guy with no education in geology so 🤷🏻♂️
You might look into the Eastern Tennessee Seismic zone. It definitely cuts down into northern Alabama, but I didn't look up your exactly location in comparison. Seismic zones like that typically have a parent structure or two, and then a halo of small sister faults parallel to the primary suture...maybe movement on one of those led to your felt event!
Approximately 1736 foot circle. Hahaha nice.
Tabernacle Hill. Pronounced Tab-ur-nackle like Tabernacle Choir.
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Could people accidentally or on purpose cause a volcano to erupt?
No I'm probably wrong, but which one of the Hawaiian Islands (not the big island) erupted in 1700 I always thought that was Maui. I guess I was incorrect if you say 1540ish. Or am I thinking of another island.
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Dude you've gotta get rid of that red banner in your video thumbnails. It makes it look like I've watched the upload already. You may be hurting your views
Agreed. Any other color would work better. Or, he could invert the colors, so that it's white leading to red.
The way it is now, it looks like we've watched half the video already.
By the way, I always wondered: how does the size of Mauna Loa, _and_ the Big Island, compare to the size of older volcanoes/islands on the island chain when those were young?
Puhahonu is a seamount in the Hawaiian chain that some research suggests was once the world's largest shield volcano, nearly twice as big as Mauna Loa. Its eroded remnants are called the Gardner Pinnacles. Info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardner_Pinnacles
Tah bur nah cul -- "Tabernacle."
Not "TAY bur NAY cul."
PLEASE don't automatically start subtitles? Please. 😶
Do a video on Maui Nui.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui_Nui
VEI ?
Volcanic Explosivity Index, a scale for rating how big the Kaboom is…
@@RoxnDox I know but Im wanting the size of the eruption that created this Tuff Cone
@@TheREALPoriruaTrainspotter Ah, gotcha…. No idea on that one.
@@RoxnDox Maybe a VEI: 3
Does anyone else hear serious mic clipping?
Great and interesting info
(But, some of your pronunciations of local names are just wrong. A little insulting and exasperates islanders)
The earth is only 6,000 years old
My friend I love your videos but it is pronounced Tab er na c le. It is a religious word with deep meaning to several faiths and I don’t want you to accidentally offended someone when I know you don’t mean to. Your volcano videos are awesome though please keep up the good work!
"Geologic oddity", "luckily will never erupt again"...
God this Guy has me splitting my sides in giggle fits with nearly every Video he does. "Please support me with money."🤣😂🤣
It's almost like paying for Pfizer to tell you something is "safe and effective"🙄
What are the odds I was just checking this out on Google Earth not 48 hours ago puzzled by it and and lo and behold this video drops thank you!! And are there any volcanoes in Greenland???
Who a la lie - phonetics for you… for… Hualālai / And Mauna K ah for Mauna Kea