The Mystery Eruption of the 15th Century: The Quest for an Elusive Harbinger of Doom

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  • @geographicstravel
    @geographicstravel  2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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    • @DimBeam1
      @DimBeam1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Curiosity Stream is just The History Channel repackaged though.

    • @violenceteacher6669
      @violenceteacher6669 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How did you post this 4 days ago when the video was uploaded an hour ago?

    • @jiukumite
      @jiukumite 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Video begins at 1:25

    • @anarchyantz1564
      @anarchyantz1564 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Simon you forgot to look into the fact it that "It could be Ghosts!"
      OGBB.

    • @bluewhalestudioblenderanim1132
      @bluewhalestudioblenderanim1132 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      there's one realy large difference between most large volcanic eruptions and a massive bomb detonation
      and that's duration
      while a bomb releases it's energy allmost instantly . . most volcanoes spew ash for many hours . . with only a few powerful yet allmost instantaneous volcanic eruption being at the hunga tonga hunga hapaii volcano

  • @RandomChangeling
    @RandomChangeling ปีที่แล้ว +113

    “Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ”
    ― Will Durant

  • @darthvenator2487
    @darthvenator2487 2 ปีที่แล้ว +309

    The ending was remarkable for me. Here in Brazil the city of Petrópolis is suffering because of landslides, and when you mentioned that quote about the dialogue between the Icelander and the Nature, i realized how true it is. And what you said is right. No matter how far we've come as a species since the 15th century, we're still just as vulnerable as those people.

    • @johnstevenson9956
      @johnstevenson9956 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      True enough. We're not really doing anything to prepare for whatever might be next.

    • @darthvenator2487
      @darthvenator2487 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@johnstevenson9956 And even those who prepare are thwarted by the incredible power of nature. I will never forget the images of the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. The walls that were supposed to protect the Japanese were no match for the sheer power of the tsunami.

    • @andersjjensen
      @andersjjensen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      And if we one day perish altogether and leave this world to the ants and cockroaches to merrily mind their own business, the universe will not shed a single tear. We are but flakes of dust on a small spinning rock that revolves around a rather common star. The only importance we have, in the grand scheme of things, is that which we ascribe ourselves with due to our own consciousness.

    • @randomobserver8168
      @randomobserver8168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@andersjjensen The only part that makes me happy is that she doesn't care about any other species either. Gives me the warm fuzzies.

    • @thokim84
      @thokim84 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      A city named for oil has geologic stability problems? Call me shocked.

  • @phoenixsixxrising
    @phoenixsixxrising 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Humans: dang nature, are you trying to kill us?
    Nature: oh, you're still here?

  • @cdfdesantis699
    @cdfdesantis699 2 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    That final quote says it all - Mother Nature just does not care. She will do what she does, & she always gets her way. An interesting point to note is the very probable CUMULATIVE affect of the decades-long activity of the Kuwae volcano. We tend to think of volcanic eruptions as short, sharp, isolated occurrences. In fact, many volcanoes around the world are almost continuously spewing gases & ash into the atmosphere. Consider Kilauea & Mt. Etna, just to name a couple, which have been emitting almost constant gases, ash & lava for decades. With the current uptick in volcanic activity the world over, literally 1000's of tons of SO2, CO2, & other gases are flooding the air of the planet. This is almost certainly contributing to climate change, along with all the noxious gases we humans pump out every day. I maintain it could take only ONE major catastrophe, such as a supervolcanic eruption or asteroid strike, to bring the planet to a tipping point. And we must remember - Mother Nature is VERY good at cleaning house.

    • @James-co2nb
      @James-co2nb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      100% contributing. Volcanoes have been a massive driver of climate change.
      You're absolutely right again, she is!

    • @infernonigh0
      @infernonigh0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And not a moment too soon, if you ask me. ;)

    • @Joe-Dead
      @Joe-Dead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      humans dump far more GHG's into the atmosphere. a volcano erupting or relatively quiescent, releases a cocktail of gasses, when erupting that includes fine ash that blocks sunlight. why major eruptions are always followed by cooling...not heating.

    • @judethaddeus9856
      @judethaddeus9856 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If humans leave it alone, the planet can and will heal itself

    • @larryscott3982
      @larryscott3982 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@judethaddeus9856
      Nothing will end life on earth. Life in earth ebbs and flows. The inclusion or exclusion of any category of life (man, beast, fish, bird, insect…) matters naught.

  • @darwinwins
    @darwinwins 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    the empire state building is officially a unit of measure

  • @parrotraiser6541
    @parrotraiser6541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    A series of eruptions from 1420 onwards, leading up to the Big One in 1464 could explain the sequence of events. A sufficiently violent final event might have put enough dust high enough to last for a couple of years. It's also possible that the tectonic changes leading up to it triggered a number of smaller events from other active volcanoes.

  • @tss9886
    @tss9886 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Multiple eruptions of one volcano was one of two possibilities that came to mind for me, the other was that the Pacific rim is known as the ring of fire for a reason... Multiple eruptions in different areas is also possible, one tectonic shift causing the next. Very interesting from a past student of geology!

    • @elizabethford7263
      @elizabethford7263 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Exactly what I thought. There's no reason it couldn't be several eruptions from one volcano or several volcanoes.

    • @puidwen
      @puidwen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed. Just look at how many volcanoes have been popping off recently.

    • @Vulcano7965
      @Vulcano7965 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then you should know that the ring of fire is not an actual connected tectonical feature.

    • @Vulcano7965
      @Vulcano7965 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@puidwen not more than usual, which is around 40-50 volcanoes every day.

  • @kiramiller568
    @kiramiller568 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The final quote reminds me of the poem by Sara Teasdale there will come soft rains. The final line in that poem is, "and spring herself will get done with scarcely know that we were gone."

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    2:40 - Chapter 1 - Of signs & portents
    5:00 - Chapter 2 - Looking for the smoking gun
    8:10 - Chapter 3 - Climax & anticlimax
    12:00 - Chapter 4 - The year the sun turned blue
    17:40 - Chapter 5 - Case closed

  • @sandybarnes887
    @sandybarnes887 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Small correction. Volcanoes don't spew vast amounts of sulfuric acid, they emit sulfur dioxide which mixes with water in the atmosphere

    • @andersjjensen
      @andersjjensen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Under water volcanos then, by induction, spew sulphuric acid :P

    • @sandybarnes887
      @sandybarnes887 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@andersjjensen that's partially true

    • @andersjjensen
      @andersjjensen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sandybarnes887 Something said partly in jest should always be partly true :P

  • @wreckingopossum
    @wreckingopossum 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    According to legend the last famine of one rabbit was in 1974 and the next one is in 2026

  • @axelwebb5349
    @axelwebb5349 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It occurred to me that this possibly wasn't a single continuing event but a series of, perhaps at different places and times compounding eachother for years

  • @darthvenator2487
    @darthvenator2487 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This series of dramastic climatic events is also a possible cause of the fall of the Golden Horde what made possible to Moscow to rise to power.

    • @here_we_go_again2571
      @here_we_go_again2571 ปีที่แล้ว

      Climate change
      in eastern/central
      Asia probably is what
      precipitated the
      movement westward
      of the various steppe
      people.

  • @HeckingHampter
    @HeckingHampter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I saw the title, and it immediately caught my attention. You really know how to make this stuff interesting.

  • @thejudgmentalcat
    @thejudgmentalcat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The "Dialogue" reminds us that not all historical figures were wrong about our place in nature

    • @andersjjensen
      @andersjjensen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We don't have a place. But if we're adaptive and resourceful enough we can pretend we do. Until the next great reset. Then we'll have to prove again that we're worthy of natural selection. Or let someone else try....

  • @kaloarepo288
    @kaloarepo288 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Human civilisation rests on geological consent -subject to change without notice" -Will and Ariel Durant in their preface to the history of the world.

  • @thegitgudgrrl
    @thegitgudgrrl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    We watched that WW1 Apocalypse show on Curiosity Stream and it was the most comprehensive thing ive seen on WW1. Including, how the war was a way for the rich autocrats, aristocrats and corporations hold the workers’ revolution down.

    • @kelrogers8480
      @kelrogers8480 ปีที่แล้ว

      The worker's revolution, as you call it, was financed by the US in 1917, to the tune of $20 billion! That kinds blows your theory away. And that "worker's revolution" , aka Communism, went on to kill some 200 million people within the next 100 years alone - tortured, starved, disappeared, murdered! It caused more misery, suffering and senseless death to humans that any belief system before it, and more than all the religious wars of history put together!

    • @here_we_go_again2571
      @here_we_go_again2571 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think that it is
      simplistic to say
      that these events
      were to "hold the
      workers' revolution
      down" Why?
      Germany had recognized
      several craft and labor
      unions before WW1.
      Germany also had a
      state-sponsored
      pension (w-mandatory
      retirement age) system
      prior to WW1 (it was
      created by Bismark)
      ALSO:
      It was international
      bankers who sent
      Lenin (in a sealed
      railroad car) to
      St. Petersburg at
      the beginning of
      the Bolshevik
      revolution.
      AND:
      Trotsky was living
      quite comfortably
      in NYC before the
      Bolshevik revolution.
      (Who was supporting
      him? Who paid for
      him to go to Russia?)
      If you havent already
      done so; I urge you to
      examine the videos
      documenting Antony
      Sutton's proof of
      bankers supporting
      Socialism.

  • @JozefLucifugeKorzeniowski
    @JozefLucifugeKorzeniowski 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm always amazed whenever I'm reminded of yet another apocalypse humanity has soldiered through.

  • @jonathanarie2813
    @jonathanarie2813 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    More storms, volcanoes, earthquakes. Do the El Reno Tornado from 2013 or something like that. God bless, Simon.

    • @FreemanLegend
      @FreemanLegend 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I live in Oklahoma and I endorse this comment

    • @evan5935
      @evan5935 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Agreed. Do the el reno or tuscaloosa one from 2011

    • @derekvaughn2038
      @derekvaughn2038 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      If he’s going to do tornadoes he might as well start with the big one.… Joplin, MS, 2011.

    • @deckerfranks7098
      @deckerfranks7098 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or the may 3rd, 99 bridgecreek-moore f5. Still the fastest windspeeds measured on earth i think.

    • @ripwednesdayadams
      @ripwednesdayadams ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There have been amazing deep dives by scientists who study tornados and those who chase tornados with them for research. Carly Anna WX has some of the best for El Reno, Joplin, Tuscaloosa, Phil Campbell, Bridgecreek-Moore, Jarrell TX aka “the dead man walking”, the super outbreak that spawned some of the only F6s like Xenia (before they were reclassified) she covers most historic tornados that people know of and the ones they don’t, Pecos Hank- his tornado footage is gorgeous and his personality is lovely, Alferia, Reed Timmer, Weatherbox covers events from a strictly meteorological perspective but his channel is also amazing and one of my faves. I’m probably forgetting some but if you watch some of those channels you’ll get great recommendations for tornado content. No disrespect to Simon but there’s way too much info and footage for a 20-30 min video to adequately cover it.

  • @bigafroman4277
    @bigafroman4277 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This was a great episode! Not only about geography, but also with a little mystery thrown in!

  • @TFCBarreto
    @TFCBarreto 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This might explain the great storm of 1467 in Madeira Island, Portugal. Although there are few records of it, it was the first significant meteorological event record since the island was "discovered" in 1419.

    • @riograndedosulball248
      @riograndedosulball248 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I couldn't find anything on it in Portuguese, where can I read more?

    • @TFCBarreto
      @TFCBarreto 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@riograndedosulball248 there is a scientific paper on climatologia events in Madeira that mentions briefly the 1467 storm. I found other information in books about my home island history. But as I mentioned before, there are very few records of it.

  • @julianaylor4351
    @julianaylor4351 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember the sulphur smell and yellow haze given off by that Icelandic volcano, some years ago. Volcanoes are something we can't stop. It's fascinating what they can do to places, many miles away, from them. 🌋

    • @keirfarnum6811
      @keirfarnum6811 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have experienced five volcanic eruptions: I lived in western Montana when St. Helens blew, and then later moved to Alaska and experienced Augustine, Iliamna, Spurr, and Redoubt. Most were mild except St. Helens and one of the ones in Alaska (I can’t remember which: I think it was Iliamna or Spurr). I just remember going for a mountain bike ride on the south end of Anchorage where I was going to ride south on the highway but noticed it suddenly got dark like it was night during day time and I realized what was happening. It was too far to get to my house farther north and ended up staying at my girlfriend’s house for several days as it was too dangerous to go anywhere. Volcanoes are fun! 🙄

  • @amandajones661
    @amandajones661 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A video about volcanoes and weather?! 😃💙 I hit the play button so hard!!!

  • @Oleandra-13
    @Oleandra-13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I'd love to see a video about Mount Etna in Italy! It has such a fascinating role in history, as well as recent events like the spectacular eruption last week with lightning storm!

  • @DerptyDerptyDUM
    @DerptyDerptyDUM 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great script, Arnaldo!! This was fascinating and super in-depth.

  • @ephymeraband8380
    @ephymeraband8380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    You should do a segment on the centralia coal fire. It’s a really intriguing story about a town that disappeared.

    • @freddie514
      @freddie514 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pretty sure he has

    • @trishapellis
      @trishapellis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@freddie514 There is a Geographics video on the Darvaza gas crater, but the video about Centralia is on 'Today I Found Out', which is more short form. So would definitely be interesting to see a long-form, in-depth look at that place - I just spotted another TH-cam video that focuses on the underground life forms of Centralia that looks fascinating.

    • @keithprice4711
      @keithprice4711 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's the town in Pennsylvania yeah?

    • @grahamstrouse1165
      @grahamstrouse1165 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@keithprice4711 Yup!

  • @Ultrasound03205
    @Ultrasound03205 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I read harbinger of doom as “hamburger of doom” and instantly clicked on the video. Not disappointed either way lol

    • @archstanton6102
      @archstanton6102 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That does sound a delicious challenge.

    • @andersjjensen
      @andersjjensen 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "I may be an old battered veteran who aught to have died in The Battle at the Plates, but I warn thee justly about the horrors that still haunt my dreams after all these years... No man who has eaten The Hamburger of Doom in it's entirety has yet lived to tell the tale... Their piercing screams still ring in my ears. The sound and sight of their bellies rupturing still makes me nauseous.
      Now if you have any wits about you, you take my advice. Rather to drop knife and fork, and give hell to your reputation as a coward, than to painfully die a fool, not knowing his limitations, in the name of false glory in a war fuelled only by gluttony..."
      Yeah, I'd totally watch that movie!

  • @cynthiasimpson931
    @cynthiasimpson931 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    How about the Topeka, Kansas tornado of July 3, 1966? It's the first one with damage of more than $100 million. I moved there in 1967, and there were still plenty of signs of the tornado.

  • @edwardbrownfield3710
    @edwardbrownfield3710 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really like that “I should not know it.” Excellent.

  • @jamestnov41945
    @jamestnov41945 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Incredible nature. I particularly like the philosophy of that ending statement.

  • @--enyo--
    @--enyo-- 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That was really interesting! Thanks for a great episode.

  • @slowbutsure504
    @slowbutsure504 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This mad lad never stops putting out content

  • @bonniehoke-scedrov4906
    @bonniehoke-scedrov4906 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really intriguing. Thank you!

  • @doghaus100
    @doghaus100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant as always...thank you

  • @dannykassmieh1198
    @dannykassmieh1198 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Videos with a focus on weather anomalies and the theories behind them are interesting! There's been some very odd sudden climate shifts throughout the last few thousand years that are not all completely explained or necessarily ever will be! Any mysterious events based in reality are great! So no ghosts and whatnot. Only real mysteries, especially because being real makes them all that much better. :)

    • @highlandoutsider8148
      @highlandoutsider8148 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      SuspiciousObservers on TH-cam 👍

    • @gordonlawrence1448
      @gordonlawrence1448 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Actually we know what pretty much every single time. IE we can check ice cores for CO2 levels going back at least 300,000 years. Dendrochronology goes back around 14,000 years with a single year resolution. That pinpoints both the year and if it was a volcanic or not. There have been impacts more recently that are smaller then the Yukatan peninsula. Those are detected by one of three methods. If it's a metal asteroid then thinks like neodymium are detectable. if it's carbon then isotopes that are rare on earth spike. The same is true of Oxygen in water/ice impacts. That said the issue with knowing a volcano erupting caused something to happen in year abcd quite often leads to a mystery over which one and where. Was it a still active volcano that caused it? In that case with current science we have little chance as the evidence may be covered by hundreds of minor eruptions or just a few big ones or even both, If the volcano was underwater then it's a nightmare as we have accurately plotted so little of the sea floor. Radar mapping is reasonably accurate for shallow water but for water more than a few hundred feet deep the accuracy drops off to the point where it does not work at all.

    • @dannykassmieh1198
      @dannykassmieh1198 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gordonlawrence1448
      Knowing that something happened and pinpointing exactly what did it aren't the same thing. That's why events such as the "Little Ice Age" have multiple theories that attempt to explain the evidence they have, such as what you're referencing. I don't believe that science as a whole functions this way, but I do believe historical climate shifts are a good example of how science can determine what's more likely as having had happened instead of what did 100% happen. I think we all are aware of scientists who were 100% positive they were correct, only for that to change dramatically later on. :)

    • @dannykassmieh1198
      @dannykassmieh1198 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gordonlawrence1448
      Another good example is how carbon-14 or beryllium-10 isotopes from tree rings can help identify certain solar activity to explain the "Little Ice Age". Yet global sulfate loading >60 Tg is used to explain this same event, with the scientist directly saying changes of solar irradiance is not required to explain the same event. :)

    • @dannykassmieh1198
      @dannykassmieh1198 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gordonlawrence1448
      I hope to hear back! I don't pretend to be a Climate Scientist and really enjoying being able to discuss these things with someone better informed. Perhaps I'm mistaken when reading research and am missing something that only someone specialized in this field would see. I don't mean to play contrarian. I just enjoy learning new things and need to probe the questions I have on any given topic to help understand it. I really enjoy thought provoking conversation and would love to hear your input!

  • @amandajones661
    @amandajones661 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I love that story at the end. Humans are nothing more than intelligent bugs. Our existence is no more important (in fact I'd argue less important) than an ant.

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Damn, your misanthropic attitude is strong. Very Woke too.

  • @ninjaswordtothehead
    @ninjaswordtothehead หลายเดือนก่อน

    The concept of Nature being so powerful reminds me of what an old sailor told me once; "The Sea is not mean or evil, son. She is indifferent and that's much, much worse."

  • @whatever0315
    @whatever0315 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was very interesting. Good one Fact Boy!

  • @charlesachurch7265
    @charlesachurch7265 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who needs anything else when we have you on you tube. Thanks xxx

  • @sifrost6869
    @sifrost6869 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting, I really like this video, keep up the great work

  • @charlesjmouse
    @charlesjmouse 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    It's interesting to consider that disasters such as this are the rule not the exception. We have seen a spectacularly unusual run of good fortune over the last couple of centuries or so... normality will resume sooner or later. Which brings me to my point:
    The foundations upon which our world is built have never been weaker as we stretch resources ever thinner over an enormous population. Any perturbation such as the one documented will have utterly disastrous consequences and yet as a society we do noting to prepare for the inevitable.

  • @micheleupchurch3725
    @micheleupchurch3725 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful. Thank you!💖

  • @dogphlap6749
    @dogphlap6749 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for this video, particularly the lack of what I believe are referred to as mememes, short videos segments that I as a cranky old man find disrupting. Best regards.

  • @here_we_go_again2571
    @here_we_go_again2571 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow!
    Thanks Simon!

  • @fabioartoscassone9305
    @fabioartoscassone9305 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    535-536: i'm the first
    1813: uff..ok boomer
    1458: i introduce my self

  • @briancooper562
    @briancooper562 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Do events in this area of the Pacific in the last year give further insight to the potential of volcanic eruptions in this area. The mechanics of the eruptions of volcanos in this area has a real 'Big Bang' potential.

  • @apriladams8710
    @apriladams8710 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great episode!!

  • @MrTryAnotherOne
    @MrTryAnotherOne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It also show the resilience of mankind. Every time we came back stronger than before.

  • @TwentyNinerR
    @TwentyNinerR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    You should cover the 2010 Merapi eruptions, one of Indonesia's largest volcanic eruptions in recent times. One of the notable events in this eruption was the outright refusal of the volcano's elderly "guardian" (yes, it's a thing, he leads traditional rituals related to the volcano) to leave the hamlet he lives in, which led to his death.
    People memorize this event through this quote: Merapi tidak pernah ingkar janji (Merapi never breaks its promise), owing to its constant volcanic activity.

    • @VanillaMacaron551
      @VanillaMacaron551 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like Harry Truman at Mt St Helen's in 1980.

    • @TwentyNinerR
      @TwentyNinerR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@VanillaMacaron551 Yep. Both men lived close to the volcano(es), both died after a pyroclastic flow that destroyed their respective dwelling places, both died at 83 years old, and both hailed as folk heroes.
      In case you're wondering, the guardian's name was Mbah Maridjan ("Mbah" is a Javanese honorific that corresponds to "Grandpa").

  • @fishplant
    @fishplant 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    can you do an episode on the other mystery eruption of 1258? it was found recently to be from lombok and was bigger than tambora but nobody talks about it!

  • @joanbrate
    @joanbrate ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent... great videos.

  • @lionofduty9804
    @lionofduty9804 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been waiting for the next geological geographics

  • @alexlubbers1589
    @alexlubbers1589 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yo Simon ive got a few suggestions for disaster-related geographics
    -Meteor Crater in Arizona, has a fascinating history including training Apollo astronauts
    - the Chelyabinsk asteroid event
    - The 2011 super outbreak of tornadoes
    - Typhoon Tip, the strongest storm on earth
    - Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, the island studied by NASA before obliterating itself
    - Moore, OK, a city hit by some of the strongest tornadoes in history
    - Lituya Bay, Alaska, site of the highest tsunami ever

  • @sisi3565
    @sisi3565 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Funny thing: I was always interested in the subject of all kinds of epidemies and diseases in the history and I did a lot of digging of those of my country especially (Poland) and there was ZERO mention about things from this video anywhere... And we have a lot of those documented but only 1451 and something in the 1490s mentioned, nothing about that particular year supposedly bringing some disease in 1460s.

  • @CaradhrasAiguo49
    @CaradhrasAiguo49 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    08:29 that's highly unlikely as the Empire State Building's own website states the volume of the ESB is 37 million ft^3. Multiply that by 37 million and convert to cubic kilometres, and that equals 38,766 km^3 which would be a VEI 9.5. An eruption output of 150 km^3 of uncompacted tephra or 143,200 ESBs is more likely

  • @sagesheahan6732
    @sagesheahan6732 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "something new something borrowed something blue..."
    I literally thought that was just a quote from Doctor Who. It's a piece of history?!?! of course it's a piece of freaking history! 😆🤣♥️

    • @VectorTracker
      @VectorTracker ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s a reasonably well know phrase and tradition kept by some people.

    • @anderander5662
      @anderander5662 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've heard that at every wedding I've ever attended.

  • @steventhompson399
    @steventhompson399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Good video! I like mysteries and drama involving natural disasters, like the tambora and krakatoa and vesuvius eruptions. But maybe this one was more than just this volcano? 1815 tambora eruption seems to have followed a mystery eruption around 1808 which was somewhat smaller but big enough so when tambora blew itself up there was still debris lingering in the atmosphere exacerbating tamboras effects. And the justinian plague era catastrophe seems to have been 2 eruptions around 535 and 540. So, maybe there was this one and another large one within a few years of each other?

    • @here_we_go_again2571
      @here_we_go_again2571 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Some scientists have
      theorized that changes
      in climate (temperature)
      affects fleas and causes
      them to be vectors of
      plague (most of the time
      the fleas, as parasites,
      annoy ground dwelling
      rodents without infecting
      them with plague.
      If this occurs, linking earth
      temperature changes
      to outbreaks of disease
      would be a valuable
      contribution to our
      understaning.
      We already know that the
      climate, wild bird migrations
      and agricultural practices
      of southeastern Asia make
      that area the "homeland"
      of influenza. The situation
      is the perfect storm for
      the infection of the birds.

  • @SylvesterCarl
    @SylvesterCarl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "The Earth will shake us off like a bad case of fleas"---Carlin

  • @plawker
    @plawker ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Simon, i am surprised that your support team depicted a comet rapidly streaking across the sky, when in fact its hard to discern any motion in one night, but only over several days.

  • @woodsy967
    @woodsy967 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This bloke is addictive as his stories are. 1 without the other just wouldnt work. Historys teachers around the world take note. Make the class interesting enough the students hear what you say not just noise leading to chores

    • @sandybarnes887
      @sandybarnes887 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You would enjoy Lance, the History Guy

  • @naturesoulmind
    @naturesoulmind ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hi Simon! We love your videos, mostly the ones on the Krakatoa, Tambora, and Yellowstone Volcanoes! Amazing Job! You should do one on the Chalupas Supervolcano and the Cotopaxi Stratovolcano (currently active and one of the tallest in the world) in Ecuador ( its situated right in the middle of chalupas)! Let us know and we would be really happy to collab with you and send you original HD Video footage and historic data of this so you can use it in one of your magic clips! :)

  • @paulcochran1721
    @paulcochran1721 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a feel good episode!

  • @miacrowell1472
    @miacrowell1472 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is a very good one

  • @amandajones661
    @amandajones661 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Simon is the best history teacher in the world!! 😃🌋

  • @JoeKThePotter
    @JoeKThePotter ปีที่แล้ว

    I love that final quote. ✌🏽

  • @ragnapodewski4694
    @ragnapodewski4694 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In 1783 two eruptions added each other: Laki in Iceland, a catastrophic basaltic effusion , and Mt Asamayama in Japan, the great Temmei catastrophe, explosive. Both together caused a climatic breakdown, which Benjamin Franklin remarked and thought related only with Laki for he did know nothing of Asamayama.

  • @jim.franklin
    @jim.franklin ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice video as usual, I wonder if researchers have taken this any further forward since it was made, or if any of them have considered that by focusing on one event they may be missing something - could there have been several events in the Pacific that led to the ongoing issues - the ring of fire is very active, there are numerous large volcanoes we know of that are extremely active, and we also know that many have suffered flank collapse and sunk below the surface - there are also some very active and large volcanoes in South America straddling the equator - it is not difficult to imagine that over a period of 50-70 years we could see a number of very large eruptions that combined to have a global impact.

  • @infledermaus
    @infledermaus ปีที่แล้ว

    Great work! You're a wonderful presenter.

  • @robertwayne352
    @robertwayne352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Simon Whistler is a rock star! Just saying! His videos are beyond interesting and he presents them with a voice and personality that makes even the driest topic interesting. ✌

  • @TheRiverPirate13
    @TheRiverPirate13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Based on the eyewitness reports of 1565 there was a massive volcanic explosion somewhere and probably in a remote part of the world. One takeaway to me is how vulnerable anything solar powered would be to volcanic ash fall and no sunlight if that same event happened today. I also think it so interesting how researchers all came to different conclusions with their examination of the remains of the underwater volcano and evidence left in the ice. No doubt one day we will solve the mystery of this eruption.

  • @Kurtlane
    @Kurtlane 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I haven't found anything in Wikipedia about the epidemic of 1460s-70s, not even in the List of Epidemics. Strange. Someone should add it there.

    • @Stettafire
      @Stettafire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's under the article of the second occurance of black death

  • @poloziki9990
    @poloziki9990 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm polish, and I know history pretty well.
    But I have never heard about such events.
    Especially as the times were pretty ok.

  • @RIXRADvidz
    @RIXRADvidz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    you can quote me,
    ' The Only Thing Larger Than Nature, is Human Ego '
    R. Duncan April,5, 2023

  • @kenwilliams3279
    @kenwilliams3279 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Hi Simon, have you done a video on the Taupo eruption in New Zealand, which formed Lake Taupo? That was apparently huge too.

    • @VanillaMacaron551
      @VanillaMacaron551 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fascinating stories and pictures from before and after the blast in the 1880s(?) that destroyed those beautiful pink terraces (if that's the word). I loved staying in Taupo, waking up to a view over the lake to the snow-capped mountain-volcano.

    • @basiltechful
      @basiltechful ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VanillaMacaron551 That was Tarawera. Taupo was a lot earlier. Another good one formed the Mangakino Caldera. Have a nice day.

  • @TheEvilCommenter
    @TheEvilCommenter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good video 👍

  • @geofflewis8599
    @geofflewis8599 ปีที่แล้ว

    ..'torrential reigns'' love it..

  • @caroljo420
    @caroljo420 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have Curiosity Stream, and I LOVE IT!!!

  • @stjavelin1593
    @stjavelin1593 ปีที่แล้ว

    My goal is to conquer the world of big brain facts guy Simon. By watching every video he has made....by the end of 2022

  • @jacksonstarky8288
    @jacksonstarky8288 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One species' pandemic or cataclysm is another ecosystem's immune response. When a species becomes a threat to the ecosystem, the ecosystem will react.

    • @willbass2869
      @willbass2869 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No. Ecosystems don't push the red launch button....
      Smh

  • @roberthicks1612
    @roberthicks1612 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think the one scientist that said there was evidence of multiple eruptions and lava flow had it right. It was likely one of those events that was sporadic over decades. Some years released more gases and others less.

  • @pathemeleski
    @pathemeleski 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Very confused here. THIS was the first "year without a summer"? I thought it was on one of your channels where the "worst year in history" was discussed: the year 536, which also featured a huge volcano with an ash plume circling the globe 7 times. No summer, no crops, loads of disease and more. That would be well before this event. 🤔

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Not the "first" time this happened, and 536 doesn't carry the moniker of "the year without a summer".

    • @jordannogaki_on_youtube
      @jordannogaki_on_youtube 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Please allow a man with a beard that glorious a little bit of hyperbole.😂

    • @TheNelly77
      @TheNelly77 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Then there's the fact that it was cold from 536 to 547/548, not just one year. There were eruptions in 535 AND 541 that led to the extended cold snap.

    • @mangalover0149
      @mangalover0149 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was more like the start of a.. decade.

  • @rentechpad
    @rentechpad ปีที่แล้ว

    I think the multiple eruption theory holds a great deal of sway especially as we know that relatively young volcano's can often be very active over shorter periods of time that older ones that may go milenia between great eruptions. On top of that, volcano such as Mt St Helens, a few in the Philippines and eve Hawaii, have shown the ability to rebuild a dome or fill a new caderawith cooled lava pretty quickly, in a little as a year. Who is to say that this dark age volcano only erupted twice but instead had a very active and long term eruptive phase. It could have well had a huge explosion near the earliest dates proposed and then had rebuilding eruptions which filled the caldera back in or built a new dome in a few as a couple of decades, and during that time subsequent to the first suspected eruption in the late 1430's, has a few large enough to at least cause atmospheric effects that cause the sun and sky to change color, leading up to another massive eruption some 3 decades after the first that added to the changes cause by the first eruption that were only just starting to allow things to become more near the previous normal.

  • @TheGryfonclaw
    @TheGryfonclaw 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That quote was super...Lovecraftian. LOL

  • @TLDT
    @TLDT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That last comment was very profound. As if they really spoke to Mother Nature herself. Thanks, Simon

  • @RayneZerati
    @RayneZerati ปีที่แล้ว

    You have so many channels now, I am constantly stumbling across a new one it seems. Do you ever sleep? Regardless, so happy to find another one!

  • @multiyapples
    @multiyapples ปีที่แล้ว

    Rest in peace to those that passed away.

  • @somestormchaseridjitwithwi2024
    @somestormchaseridjitwithwi2024 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A caldera is not an underwater crater. its a giant crater shaped formation after the magma chamber of a volcano rapidly empties, and the above volcano sinks into the magma chamber, leaving a depression in the earth. This can happen on land or underwater.

  • @kathyjaneburke2798
    @kathyjaneburke2798 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The wonder of nature!

  • @eaf888
    @eaf888 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you

  • @nwilliams2713
    @nwilliams2713 ปีที่แล้ว

    RE END OF VIDEO: LIKE SMALL POEM BY STEPHEN CRANE : "A Man Said to the Universe": A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.” (Crane, 1899)

  • @kennystrawnmusic
    @kennystrawnmusic ปีที่แล้ว

    One striking characteristic of this event that sets it apart from most others is how rapidly the unseasonably cold summer of 1465 transitioned into an unseasonably warm winter of 1465-66. Only by throwing a combination of both SO2 and some greenhouse gas could a volcano cause such an abrupt change, and of course throwing large amounts of water vapor into the stratosphere is the most likely explanation here.
    So yes, that definitely points in the direction of something like Kuwae being the culprit, since we just saw recently how much water vapor Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai - a volcano with a similar tectonic underpinning - threw into the atmosphere.

    • @aron1332
      @aron1332 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Another large underwater caldera near Tonga, Niuatahi, seems to also be a candidate

  • @donaldcarey114
    @donaldcarey114 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The missing volcano may have never been there, it could have been a type of Tunguska Event, perhaps over the sea.

    • @mrcryptozoic817
      @mrcryptozoic817 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've been following OzGeographics. The south Pacific is a nightmare region of volcanic and meteoric devastation: massive volcanoes on land and exploding ones undersea and oceanic meteor impacts causing megatsunamis and resulting worldwide rain events.
      Then there are volcanoes of Alaska, Iceland, Mediterranean, Korea/China, Yellowstone...
      It's a wonder humanity is here at all.

  • @zch7491
    @zch7491 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So much mystery I thought I was watching casual criminalist!

  • @akilliyanage9133
    @akilliyanage9133 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    would love a video on the bande aceh tsunami and earthqauke or the little ice age

  • @Kevin5262
    @Kevin5262 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    We could do for a whole video on that mysterious plague.

  • @Tea_laBlue
    @Tea_laBlue 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There was a cartoon. I saw one where a person was talking to the Earth, and was like “I’ll save you!!” And the Earth basically said “I’ll be fine regardless. It’s *you* you need to worry about”
    Humans are so cute. We think that the universe revolves around us, but in reality we are just meaningless specs ☺️ for a perfectionist, sometimes that thought takes the pressure off

  • @joanbrate
    @joanbrate ปีที่แล้ว

    excellent

  • @fabricdragon
    @fabricdragon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    they (many of the same researchers) have pinpointed Krakatoa as the cause of issues in the 500s (536?) and that also triggered a plague...
    apparently certain pathogens are more active when temperatures are warmer or cooler, which changes the infection pattern, plus when the animals are hungry they invade human storehouses...

  • @ragnapodewski4694
    @ragnapodewski4694 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Today we have to look for the tephra,rained down. We must search the ice cores, count the year rings Then count the isotopes, being characteristic for every volcano.