Canada Has a Volcano Problem
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- We have a potential volcano problem on our hands, in this case involving Canada's volcanoes. It does not involve Mount Meager or simply just Mount Garibaldi, but rather, all of the nations volcanoes. Despite producing 6 volcanic eruptions in the last 500 years, absolutely none of Canada's volcanoes meet proper monitoring standards. I made this video to explain the current situation, along with a proposal (based off of source [1] in this video's "sources/citations" section) of what is needed to properly monitor the nations volcanoes.
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[1] Melanie C. Kelman and Alexander M. Wilson. 2024. Assessing the relative threats from Canadian volcanoes. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 61(3): 408-430. doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2023-0074
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0:00 Canada's Volcanoes
1:47 What is Needed
2:19 A Real World Example
3:42 Missing Information
4:53 Final Thoughts
Our Volcanoes are so remote and unknown to us that before I started following this channel I didn't even know we had any
Thank goodness Canada has that pandering to first peoples down, though. Amazing work - will definitely save lives.
Polite volcanos. That's SO Canadian!!!
Me too!
@@princessofthecape2078The government does do multiple things at once, but also what do they even do about something like a potential future volcanic eruption? Humans don't have the power to prevent natural disasters like that.
I learned we did when we had earthquakes in Edmonton last year lol.
There's certain evidence that suggests any Canadian volcano that erupts would promptly apologize for the disruption it caused.
Yes it would 😂
@@ia1n673 One more reason to love Canada!
Yes off gasing maple syrup oxide as not to offend anyone's senses. Wish other countries would get their volcanoes together.♥️🇨🇦♥️
After the eruption, it would send out a smoke plume which reads "sorry"...
@@EatsLikeADuck yep, even our volcanoes are polite.
As a citizen living in Greater Vancouver BC, I completely agree with your assessment.
Our governments both national and provincial don't seem to understand the threat some of these systems could pose populated areas.
Although our part of the Ring of Fire seems surprisingly quiet compared to Alaska, and Washington state, that could be more a lack of monitoring,
than actually being uneventful.
Garibaldi is close enough to Squamish and Whistler to be major problem, and depending on weather could impact Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. The others on the list are very remote. Unless you’ve spent time really exploring BC, it’s hard to comprehend just how remote most of the province is. Yes, small settlements would be affected by several of the volcanoes (e.g. Atlin BC, population approx 500) but that’s about it. And airline routes could easily be routed around them. The chain of volcanoes through Washington and Oregon states are a much much bigger problem, especially Rainer which looms over Seattle (and surrounding cities), and Mt Hood which is close to Portland. Mt Baker is probably as much of a problem for Vancouver as Garibaldi.
@@byz-blade
An argument could be made that Mt. Baker is more of a threat since it seems to be much more active, than any of the Mt. Garibaldi complex.
@@jimthain8777 yep, I mentioned that in another comment… fully agree.
It's quiet, with very rare and ridiculously severe fault movement.
In Vancouver huh. As much as the volcano's are a potential threat, they may or may not be imminent.
The big quake, which will certainly be almost unparalleled in recent history in scale and or magnitude, and which will certainly cause tsunamis which will strike so quickly after the quakes as to be unavoidable for all but the luckiest. Add to that that much of Van is either adjacent to questionable hillsides, on a muddy delta, or both, and the city is gonna be in a bad way. It's got a high enough chance of occurring in any given year that if it were a potentially mild work injury, the work would not be allowed.
I think we don't understand what this will all mean for the province.
It certainly does when a book printed within the last thirty years blithely states " There are no active volcanoes in Canada"!
Didn’t realize there was such a book!
@@LadyHeathersLair There certainly is- my mother bought a copy of it when she and dad visited friends in the states. I thought it odd at the time because Canada is sandwiched between two places that does have them but I didn't know enough at the time to question the assertion. It's only since I started watching this channel that I realise how misinformed the book is in this regard- otherwise it's a pretty good book!
The EU printed out an analysis book a good few years ago, while Britain was a member state. They missed Wales off the front cover illustration map.
I have also seen when correction software reverses what was originally intended and the printers failed to catch it.
These things do happen occasionally so I'm not surprised.
What book are you talking about here?
I have: Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada.
It says it was printed in about 1993, so it is now about 30 years old.
YIKES!
I will quote from it.
"Canada is commonly thought to occupy a gap in the Pacific Ring of Fire between the Cascade volcanoes of the western United States and the Aleutian volcanoes of Alaska, yet the Cordillera of British Columbia and (the) Yukon includes more than 100 separate volcanic centers that have been active during the Quarternary (period)."
So my book does know something about them, BUT, the knowledge provided is sketchy.
The section "Volcano Tectonics of Canada, by J. G. Souther is obviously about some under studied systems.
(The book gives better information on most US volcanoes.)
Now this is a specialist publication that I intentionally googled probably a decade or more ago to find it, so it probably has better information than most non-specialist books about the topic. (It wasn't a cheap book, but is fascinating. I should probably check to see if it has been updated.)
@@jimthain8777 Not sure what the title of the book was, but I do know it covered what it called 'Active, Dormant and Extinct Volcanoes' though it concentrated heavily on the former, and barely gave page room to the latter. There was a page or two on the Wrangellia-St. Elias range as one or two of the mountains there were thought to be dormant or extinct volcanoes. I have to admit that the book is very United States-centric, so perhaps that's why they kind of skipped over Canada. I also get the feeling that the book was designed for the tourist market, aimed at those who had a more than passing interest in volcanoes, as maps are included of featured volcanoes, marking main highways, hiking trails, rest stops etc. Perhaps the combination of factors has led to this major discrepancy... or else, someone, somewhere has a bad case of denial going on!
I didn’t realize that the last eruption was in 1904! That is actually quite recent, in volcanic terms.
Anything in the last couple of thousand years is "recent" when talking volcanoes.
The 500 years he mentioned is like yesterday from a geologic point of view.
In human terms also
My 4 grandparents were born between 1897 - 1904.
Right there with you! Lol😂
A few years ago I was hiking in Garibaldi provincial park near Panorama Ridge and saw a small, consistent steam vent - very small but steady, coming from a cinder cone that we were hiking beside. I grew up in this area, and did study a little geology in university, but was puzzled as I did not think that there was that level of activity present in the park.
Can you provide the coordinates to where you saw this?
I believe the same has happened from time to time on Mt Garbaldi
@@DyingDarkStar That would be a very good idea. gps coordinates and pictures.
They are planty of undiscovered volcanos around the world up to today.
After broadcast about that steam ent found had looked at volcanoes in Rockies and in the last year when tried to repeat ... all info had disappeared ...about the volcanoes in the Rockies ... we all know when this happens they do not want the public to know something...
Officials definitely need to look into Garibaldi and Meager, at a minimum, especially as populations in these areas continue to boom (no pun intended).
Too late, you punned. No need for a disclaimer, stand proud.
I live in the shadow of Garibaldi so I would appreciate it!
The Endeavour segment, a deep-sea volcano west of BC, is erupting as I type this. Only 20 years ago, Canadian geologists were still claiming our volcanoes were "extinct." They're not. We just don't study and monitor them like the Americans.
Surprised the video didn't mention the potential threat to air travel with so many unmonitored volcanoes, especially given the continental US to Alaska is a pretty notable air freight corridor.
very few routes actually fly anywhere close to any of these volcanoes, and in the event of an actual eruption, it would be extremely easy to go around it
Ever since I started reading up about Canadian volcanoes and the level on monitoring I've felt it a tad negligent, as at the very minimum the Cascade portion of the volcanoes at least ought to be adequately monitored due to their proximity to population.
Exactly, the hot springs at Harrison don't just exist for no reason.
Yeah, we got a volcano problem. None have popped up in downtown Toronto or under Parliament.
That's hilarious
The Canadian government has a preferred contractor for electronic monitoring and software. They would, I think, charge about $54 million per volcano based on past contracts.
Indeed :(
GC stratagies can find some guys for 60 mill
Unless it is a direct threat or inconvenience to the lower mainland of BC, there is no real interest in general. Rural BC is sparsely populated and generally forgotten by the provincial government. You think a sleeping volcano is scary? Try having a medical emergency in rural BC. You would have a lot of time to read about the risk posed by volcanoes on your hours long ambulance ride.
If a volcano does erupt unexpectedly, the Government is fully prepared with statements of "Sorry, eh" in 150 languages.
😂accurate
I wish our government had done anything in the last 15-20 years to warrant the assumption that they are fully prepared for anything.
Nah bro, they will just freeze everyone's bank accounts that say we should discuss the topic.
This government doesn't say sorry. Because this government hasn't taken responsibility for A SINGLE THING!
Extra carbon tax with stop the volcanos before it reaches cities thanks Justin
The liberals would just impose another tax on the middleclass and blame white ppl.
I suggest that all fellow Canadians forward this video to your local MP. Long shot, I know, but hey......
It’s only going to work if you can make a case for volcanic monitoring reducing our greenhouse gas emissions…
Yes, on top of our existing disaster relief funds, we should lobby the government to implement a volcano tax. Thats gotta be up there in the top three issues facing Canada right now.
Nailed it. Trudeaus cousin would have to launch a study first. $$$
@@deltalima6703 This is a 'both sides' issue. I've been trying to warn people about this since Harper was elected
@@kansmill Big volcanoes can cause temporary global cooling. Would that catch their attention?
Canadians living in rural areas cannot get access to a doctor. It's a much bigger health and safety issue. Volcano monitoring may be sorely needed and necessary but it feels like a luxury given what else is missing. Rural Canada is really bad and missing so many things that should be mandatory.
Healthcare is kind of pointless if a natural disaster, which can probably be adequately warned of in advance, cooks you.
@@TyphoonVstromthink before you speak bro shut up
@wittydev4301 why shut up hes right. And when it happens yall ware gonna cry that your prime minister doesn't care 😢 . And a neighboring country for aid
@@wittydev4301 Who needs healthcare when that scumbag prime minister will see your unfortunate situation, have the audacity to walk up to you and say "Would you consider MAID".
Trudeau is subhuman.
Preparing for the massive quake that is a virtual certainty in the next zero-to-500 years is a much better way to spend the money compared to monitoring about 23 of these volcanoes. The other ~3 are easier to access and enough of a threat that they ought to get some funding.
Its even crazier when you consider how well many volcanically active developing countries like Indonesia and the Philippines are able to monitor and manage their volcanoes. If they can pull it off even when not insignificant parts of the country don't even have roads, than any nation, particularly a wealthy one like Canada, should absolutely be able to handle it.
Not as long this dam government is in power !
You've identified the main issue: "volcanically active". I don't mean in the strict sense of "not extinct", but in common parlance. We don't have anything to constantly remind people vulcanism exists in the country compared to other nations where volcanic activity is an ongoing thing: Italy has Etna and Stromboli constantly going off while everyone is aware of Vesuvius. The US has the Hawai'ian volcanoes, Alaska regularly having eruptions, while Mt. Saint Helens is in the memory of a large percentage of the population. Indonesia has volcanoes going off, the Philippines has them going off, Iceland has them going off, Mexico has them going off (in the latter two cases within sight of the nation's capital), and so on.
My geology department, when I attended university back in the early 90s, had zero courses on volcanology. They have one now, but just a single class in the program. The only time volcanoes were mentioned is their involvement in forming mineral deposits, or their role in structural geology and earth history, but contemporary research? Nope. I have worked with world class structural geologists and been taught by an expert in asteroid impacts, Canadian economic geologists and petroleum geologists and geophysicists work all over the world. Paleontologists? Gotcha covered. Experts in continental history and formation of the early Earth? There's a reason the Wilson Cycle, describing the formation, breakup. and reformation of supercontinents is named after a Canadian geophysicist. Glacial geology? Boy, got that covered. Volcanoes? Well...
This isn't a subject that gets a lot of attention in Canadian universities because there isn't a huge demand because we don't have the media-friendly attention-getting eruptions other places have on an ongoing basis, and the events we do have have taken place in the middle of nowhere, relatively speaking, in hard-to-reach places. Without the regular eruption to remind people it exists, politicians are unwilling to allocated the funding necessary to set up monitoring programs, especially when the odds are against that monitoring having any results (outside of academic interest) in the average person's lifetime. And it isn't something that politicians are purely to blame for. Drop a few million for volcanic monitoring and basic research into those volcanoes and the outrage coming from members of the public at such a profligate "waste" would continually fill opinion columns. Especially since, of the thirteen provinces and territories, eleven of them would not get any of this funding.
So we get stuck in a vicious cycle: we need the monitoring to warn of potential dangers, but without an example of that actual danger there's no support to build the monitoring so people don't know that danger exists which research and monitoring would reveal.
@@keith6706 Good point about the funding. I studied infectious diseases in the 1990s. There was very little research on coronaviruses before the SARS epidemic in 2003, because they were considered to be common cold viruses that weren't dangerous. Few papers published and most of them were old. Good luck getting a grant. And the CDC did not monitor them, at all. Now they do.
Consider for a moment that BC is about half the land area of Indonesia, and has about 55 times fewer people… very few of whom are close to any of those volcanoes, while many Indonesians literally live on them. The volcanoes of Indonesia (about 5x as many as Canada has) are also continuously banging away, compared to the last eruption in Canada being the century before last. We are much more likely to have an extremely destructive earthquake before we have a remote volcano pop its cork, and the quake will drastically affect 95% of BC’s population… whereas most of those volcanoes would be an interesting news story for all but a few hundred people. Garibaldi and one or two others ought to be higher priority than the others, but even so nothing compared to a magnitude 9+ subduction quake.
I think it will be fine. Canadian volcanoes are invariably much politer than US volcanoes
One thing that Canada has however, is one of the best space borne radar constellation systems used for Interferometry and deformation monitoring
It's really cool seeing my favorite hiking spot featured so much in one of your videos. The Black Tusk is truly an awe inspiring volcanic feature. Not to mention Garibaldi Lake, Battleship Islands, the huge crumbling lava barrier holding the lake back, and Mt. Garibaldi itself.
The Silverthrone Caldera is massive, about 30 kilometers across. We certainly do have big volcanoes here, though most don't realize it.
I would urge having an army of TikTokers to constantly live stream the volcanoes.
"Ohmahgerd! That hill is, like, totally puking red water stuff or something, furreal!"
An absolutely elegant way to detect problems or eruptions without a loss of vital equipment!
Don't need to that's why volcanologists are around 😎
Thanks for all of your hard work man!
Interesting. To put a positive twist on it: it sounds like just one of these locations could provide many students with effective and (what should be) easily fundable dissertation/thesis projects!
There is only one problem - logistics. A lot of those volcanoes are remote and quite hard to reach, not to mention the rather hostile climate at said locations. Logistics required are outside of most student's financial capabilities.
@@gorantev woah woah... students? I don't know anything about geology/volcanology programs but chemistry, physics and bio you dont say yes to the degree until the advisor and university foots the bill. Generally your advisor will have a grant (or startup) funding - and you may need to apply for more. I agree that its a logistical nightmare but the idea I was getting at is that it would *seem* to be an reletively easy-to-fund project. It's novel work concerning a broad system and (potential) human impacts. Generally speaking if you can help understand an unknown threat to humanity better, many agencies are willing to share some cash.
As for remoteness and hostility, we've got people trudging into remote arctic tundras for Thesis projects.. for most of us it would just mean fieldwork is relegated to one season.
THANK YOU
I've been trying to get people to recognize this threat for over 15 years. I run into indifference at best, "waste of taxpayer money/government spying on people" at worst
It would most certainly be a waste of taxpayer dollars. Canada has alot of suffering people, none of them care about volcanoes. We are watching our country self-destruct, monitoring volcanoes is pretty low on the list of things we need. Not much we can do if it blows anyway.
Spying? How is seismological equipment supposed to spy on people?
@@gingermcgingin4106 It can certainly detect nearby footsteps.
Yeah, the biggest issues about lack of monitor equipment on those volcanoes in Canada is due to: 1.) Budget limitations as Canadian's geology branch typically don't get much funding, as their budget is around CAD $57 to $97 million, that's barely to pay for no more than two dozen of volcanoes as they have to pay employees and other things too. 2.) Lack of political incentivization as those politicians don't take much stock in geology as they have bigger problems to deal with. 3.) Establishing monitoring equipment at the volcanoes are extremely difficult due to geography location and terrain topography as majority of those volcanoes are in rugged terrain and weather effects. (Canada usually gets lot of snow, rain and wind in higher elevations)
Most of them aren’t worth the investment to monitor. The ones which are would be much more convenient to access and thus cheaper.
Actually the reason is that it's not in Eastern Canada. Western votes don't count.
just convince Alberta's politicians that volcanic magma is a potential commodity. they'll suddenly come up with millions for investment lol :(
@@K.C-2049 That is why I am thinking of proposing a royalty for industrial wind and solar plants.
Alberta won't feel the need the ban them, just to keep the price of natural gas high.
Super glad you made this video. Not enough attention on this stuff clearly, I didnt even know half of the information presented here and I've been in Canada all my life!
Have to say, there is so much irony seeing the local volcano I live by mentioned in a video about the unknown volcano activity in Canada, when I live in a part of California that is never recognized.
As a Canadian, didn't even know we had a volcanic problem.
If it explodes, it explodes. That's out of my control. 🤷♂
Err. As humans we can defiantly control how we warn people and develop communities around the area to prevent massive loss of life.
Great video!
Thanks as always! More people really need to know of Canada's volcanoes, so they can be adequately studied and monitored. The extent to which the dates of many eruptions are unknown is quite sad. Additionally, it is quite troubling that the 1898 eruption's location is unclear. I apologize for saying this again, but the possibility that one of the 535-536 mystery eruptions occurred in the Northern Cordillera Province (Which is mostly in Canada, with smaller parts in Alaska) is also something that should not be ignored. Canada's volcanoes do really need more study. Their study can provide a range of benefits, from saving lives to potentially solving the mystery of what volcanoes contributed to one of the worst years in human history.
Ive hiked all over the Mt Garibaldi region.
Including the "Black Tusk" peak that you showed in the video.
To say that the Canadian Govt is sorely lacking in Volcano monitoring in British Columbia would be an understatement.
Our nations capital is over 3000 miles away and the politicians in charge care more about snow removal in Ottawa than volcanos in BC.
They wont deal with this until its far far too late.
I saw this video by a geologist, titled The Geodiversity of the Sea to Sky region, and it was fascinating. Thanks for this clip
AI voice is hard to understand.
Speed up by 1.25 or 1.5x speed makes it easier for me
Sounds like Kermit on benzos.
I agree. Defo a tragedy waiting to happen.
Please make A video on the suspected 1898 eruption... Now i am curios?
Could there be an opportunity for citizen science here? I know it wouldn't be ideal per se but it seems of high improtance to at least get basic monitoring going.
I live in Vancouver & have lived in many places on both Vancouver Island & various places between Kittamat & the Vancouver region & have always wondered about this issue. I remember the Mt. St.Helens Eruption when i was starting highschool in the Comox Valley & it totally freaked me out I wasn't aware that Comox lake was the result of a volcanic eruption speed thawing the glaciers & carving a 30km ditch that today is the lake. Anywho thanx 4 the heads-up!
Thanks, I did not know Canada has volcanoes.
Great information
Oh (come on) Canada! Time to step it up, hosers!
Right! Even iceland is making you look bad. Murder geese we are used to
Well if you're sure...
Volcano tax.
@@MisterPerson-fk1txTrudeau policy 101
“Can it be taxed?”
What happened with the Tseax Cone video?
Now I wonder how well other sparsely volcanic regions like Australia handle theirs. I mean after all Mt Gambier and Atherton are both on top of dormant volcanoes (and ones that tend to kick off with a bang too, lots of maars on both). Now that I think about it there are actually a decent amount of countries with like a small handful of very dormant volcanoes that present a consistent low but not nonexistent risk that I highly doubt are monitored at all. Canada definitely has got to be the most egregious example due to the sheer amount of volcanoes, danger they pose, and resources to spare to actually monitor it but I doubt they're completely alone in this.
Just one of the reasons i want to be one of Canada's volcanologists and I'm a born and raised British Colombian 😁
Look at a feature called "Boulter Lake" just north of Wabakimi park in ontario. Is this the crator of an ancient volcano? What is with thw strange circular holes surrounding the lake? Why is the water such a strange colour?
Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks.
Thank you very much for this.
I will be writing my MP to ask him what we, Canada 🍁, are going to do about these very serious concerns.
I believe the title should be "Canada has a volcano problem, eh."
Silverthorne Caldera is a VEI 7-8 capable supervolcano ~350km north-northwest of Vancouver. It is not monitored or studied.
It seems might have a volcano problem too, can we expect a video about campi flegreii's unrest episode?
Welcome to Canadian federal politics. British Columbia where the majority of volcanoes reside is viewed by the Fed government as merely a resources area, could for taxing etc. Now if the volcanoes were in say quebec then all that equipment you mentioned would be inplace.
East Coast Bias is a problem in Canada too then? Definitely a problem in the US especially with the media and government being there.
Mt. Meager had 2 active fumerols in 2016 when we flew around it in a small cesna. They were gone when we went back 4 years later. The Blacktusk (Garibaldi) event was just dust from a loose Rockfall. There is lots of low scale volcanic activity in the sea to Sky region. Basically none of it is actively monitored.
You missed mt caley (seperate system( inbeetween garibaldi and mt meager
My grandparents talked about stories along time ago an angry spirit came and cracked the great turtles back and fire came out and the people had to get away from it fast.
our government has absolutely zero idea how to allocate money I can understand some of these super remote volcanos but Garibaldi and mount meager ? come on get some funding up there
I'd like to hear about the geology of Molokai's kalaupapa peninsula.
I over flew it on Thursday, on a work related visit to molokai from maui.
And noticed a crater like formation there, but it didn't have the appearance of the usual eroded volcanic pu'u vent.
How did the peninsula form? I've always thought it was a landslide formation, material that sloughed off the high cliffs that isolate it from the rest of the island...
But that crater...
I'd love to hear your take on it.
Does Alaska have volcanoes along this chain?
Mt. Ida! Dang spellcheck got me again!
Are any of they all away from people then ? I think I'll su scribe this channel seems great!
given the lack of monitoring and exploration, I might imagine that there are volcanoes that haven't even been found yet, sleeping under glaciers or bubbling up from the sea floor
That video you showed definitely did not look like "wind blown dust". Maybe when they sent someone out it looked like that but not in the video of the first reporting party.
Our government unfortunately doesn't like to spend money on important things like volcanic monitors - it would rather spend $millions of our taxpayer dollars on covid ventilators that it subsequently sent to metal recycling, i.e. our government prefers to waste money rather than spend it on preventative action. Thank you for drawing this to our attention - I literally had no idea that we had so many volcanoes that could go off without us ever knowing that something could happen.
Well said
How many energy plants are there using these volcanoes
As a Canadian, I forgot we had volcanos, never heard of a single one going off in my lifetime.
Very interesting 🤔
Interesting. Does not the west coast of Canada trend along a tectonic plate boundary?
It’s part of the Pacific ring of fire. It’s a little horrifying that the government has not done anything, though that’s hardly surprising. Here in New Zealand (also on the ring of fire) our previous government was basically a copy of Trudeau’s and would pussyfoot around many issues that are important, while investing millions in very unimportant projects (like painting road crossings in rainbow colours, and closing down our only oil refinery). That said, we do monitor our volcanoes, and yet people are still killed by them occasionally (whakaari just a couple of years ago is a classic example, where it was at code orange and people were allowed to walk inside the crater)
Yes. And there is a subduction zone that starts north of Vancouver and goes all the way to about Mendocino in California.
This implies that the Queen Charlotte “strike-slip” is at least partially a subduction fault and Cascadia extends far North of Mt. Garibaldi.
Tax it. That seems to make things go away.
Honestly, money talks, again. Eruption are too scarce here, with no official casulaties reported since....forever? That means the government wont fund the equipment needed, the maintenance, nor the people to manage said equipment. More than 95% of the Canadian population would probably be against the usage of public funds for such purpose. That situation, unfortunaly, might change the day when a lahar takes 900 lives....
That looks like Black Tusk or Diamond Head. I just hiked up to Taylor Meadow at Black Tusk, too much snow to safely continue with the equipment I had with me.
So, what can we do to pressure our government to get their act together and put together the funding, get the equipment and enough people on the job to do at least the bare minimum.
Someone should tell JT that he could carbon tax the volcanos and there would be an overkill of monitoring equipment.
Are any of these located in places other than the Rockies ?
Mt. Edziza, T'seax cone, Crow Lagoon.
the Prime Minster problem is more alarming.
Most of Canada's volcanoes are located in some of the most forbidding true wilderness terrain in North America. Just getting to them, much less equipping and then maintaining remote monitoring equipment, is a significant physical and logistical task. They also are not highly active (no known eruptions in living memory) and are relatively distant from large population centers. All that plus the question "Who's going to pay for all this?" creates an attitude in Canada's government that volcano monitoring isn't a priority. Which likely will last until one of Canada's volcanoes wakes up and voters start asking, "Why weren't you monitoring this?" That's usually how it goes; risks ignored until they become a crisis. Bah.
Over taxation and over spending make many things unaffordable.
I'm an American and therefore have no knowledge on the subject of Canuck volcanos. However, I just thought I'd ask; If 3 volcanos go off at the same time is that considered a "Hat Trick"??
From Québec. I didn't know we have volcanos...Happy to live on the east side of Canada
Nfld is a hidden super volcano just so ya know
Ancient supervolcano that is in both Quebec and Ontario. Look it up
@@yahushaismyshepherd1179 Just read it...Amazing! thanks for the info!!!
I’m Canadian and starting my journey to be a volcanologist. Hopefully I can find some work here otherwise I’m heading to the states or Indonesia.
Did you train an AI on your voice and get it to read the scripts for your videos?
It sounds like volcanoes have a Canada problem.
Canadians are just built differently. Some folks flap about everything while many are just accepting of what the planet throws at them.
Having worked for the Canadian federal government, this lack of monitoring and I suspect a sense of complacency is not surprising. Again the land of reactive response instead of proactive protection.
I didn’t know we had volcanos 5 minutes ago
To the untrained eye Mt Meager doesn’t resemble a volcano at all and one could mistaken it for a typical mountain that has extensive glacial erosion.
The plate margin on the west Canadian coast must differ in terms of angle of subduction. It definitely produces much more mountainous land as opposed to the cascade area with its clearly obvious and frequent volcanoes.
Yeah outside of the Vancouver area most of Canada's volcanoes and surrounding terrain a dominated by extensional magmatism and graben horst topography and rifting. Since the region is composed almost entirely from exotic terranes in what appears to have been an oceanic volcanic archipelago complex NA collided with during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, it is likely easier for the crust to extend the unconsolidated young crust and allow magma to the surface thus favoring primarily basaltic or otherwise mafic volcanism.
To the North and extending into southern Alaska you have an ongoing compressional mountain building episode which has effectively jammed the subduction zone as the Yakutat terrain block( the northern plate counterpart of Siletzia the former Iceland of the Pacific) so you get large mountain building instead.
Lastly NA is moving in a different direction from the Pacific plate frame of reference which means there is going to be some degree of strike slip action though it might be fairly minor since you are approaching the zone of subduction where the Pacific is getting dragged beneath the remnants of the archipelago train wreck collision.
That at least is what I've gleaned primarily from the stuff on Nick Zentner's channel, it is definitely an understudied region so the full picture is likely much more complex.
Where is UBC’s faculty of geology/volcanology?
Why aren't they being monitored?
"Canada has a volcano problem" So does hawaii
Title jokes aside I've been waiting for this kind of video for a while in regards to lack of comprehensive monitoring
It is very hard to listen to your videos… idk if it’s the mic or the room you recorded this in, but I would suggest running some tests to improve long term engagement.
The topic is very interesting, hope to see some growth someday!
I'm wondering if the weather in those areas, which can be kind of wild in the winter, makes authorities wonder if there's a point putting expensive equipment in spots that could be covered in snow to a depth of several feet or blown to heck and back by winds?
Kermit the geologist, that voice had me smiling.
This man just gave canada a quest
Food for thought. You should send this video to the Royal Geological Survey (I think that's the agency).
they aren't responsible for their own funding.
Actually that would be the Canadian Geologic Survey, I believe.
I don't know what resources they have to actually do this work, even the US studies some of theirs only grudgingly.
Geological Survey of Canada. They are well aware of the issue. They just don't have the personnel and funding.
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Yeah, that's what I thought too.
We need to change government mindset on this issue, because a major volcanic catastrophe would cost a LOT more than watching the most dangerous volcanoes would.
Interesting
Wow, as a canadian that kinda blow my mind to learn we don't do more.
Just a tip, if you're going to leave word on your video, put them on the screen long enough so I can read them. Nothing bothers me more then having to pause and go back, then pause to read it, and make sure I pause right. Espcially when it's relevant information to the video. Other than that, great videoA
How many of these volcanos are in the prairies? 0?
Yes... big problem... waiting for politicians to exploit this for maximum profit.
I'm Canadian, and for 8 years I used to live on a very active volcano in the tropics. I'm not worried about it. You cant stop it. Dont waste my tax money on it.
Its also problematic considering the potential for flight issues, as BC is pretty well placed to disrupt flight paths to and from Canada and the US
Flights from California to Korea and Japan, for example, tend to fly along the edge of the Pacific and along the Aleutians.
and the tufa at kelowna?
You should take a deep dive into the geology and geologic history of British Columbia... specifically the 'interior' region... there is a stand alone volcano cone near a town called lac la hache... and the Fraser river runs through a granite gorge west of Williams lake that can't be glacial... it makes me think there was a giant lake at some point... possibly heated by this lone cone called Mt Timothy...