What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up?
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The Earth is a gigantic ball of semi-molten rock, with a heart of iron as hot as the surface of the Sun. Titanic amounts of heat left over from its birth and the radioactive decay of trillions of tons of radioactive elements find no escape but up. Currents of rock spanning thousands of kilometers carry this energy to the surface. Earth’s crust is the only thing in their way. It feels solid to us, but it is only a fragile barrier, an apple skin around a flaming behemoth. True apocalypses can break through and unleash eruptions tens of times more powerful than all of our nuclear weapons combined, subjecting the climate to centuries worth of change in a single year, while drowning continents in toxic ash and gases: supervolcanoes. How big can they get? And will they put an end to humanity?
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Kurzgesagt you have one of the best content out here
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real
“Big booms on a scale”
Is the most accurate thing I’ve ever heard for measuring explosions
I wonder if you could make yellowstone Erupt by using nukes.
6:31 boomsday clock :D
@@WhoLetTheDogOut well, kinda depends what kind of bombs you're talking about
@@WhoLetTheDogOut yes
Indeed. We can measure the yield of a human made bomb and the power of a volcano. I wonder if we already have a method to measure super novas...
The really interesting thing about Krakatoa, in my opinion, is that the biggest bang wasn't really volcanic. A smaller eruption blew out the side of the volcanic cone, allowing millions of litres of seawater to rush inside. It hit the magma, turned instantly to steam, and the force of that steam expanding is what blew the mountain apart and made a noise so loud it was heard in South Australia.
Reminds me of the concern they had during Chernobyl if the melting down reactor hit the reservoir of water in the lower level. A 2 megaton kaboom.
What do you think will happen when Yellowstone cracks? Yellowstone Lake will touch the Rhyolite(Most explosive type of magma), and explode...... Scientists have predicted that a moderate explosion from Yellowstone could potentially shatter windows in Paris.
@@seantrevathan3041 absolutely, the same principle can be applied.
Except the small detail of the radioactive air and following nuclear winter
Heat is wacky
Ah, the old, nuclear reactor meltdown scenario for exploding tops
Kurzgesagt is like "If this blows up you and your loved ones will die. But that's what they are: LOVED ones. That means that, despite dying horrible deaths, you are loved."
@Curiosity - And that doesn't even matter for long anyway.
After the initial point of panic & pain, it melts rather quickly into the stage of not caring - like being under nitrous.
(Source: self, after several near-fatal anaphylactic reactions.)
@MKassa but then I'd be dead tho (which doesn't sound very pleasant)
@@whatever_hi_in_spanish_is doesn't sound unpleasant either.
@@JaceDeanLoveYeesh! ... I sure am feeling edgy today! What to comment..
@@raphbau no edginess intended. Just saying death sounds pretty neutral lol
0:28 Love the visual of a lava worm bursting through the Earth's crust like an apple, super creative.
Yea
Dint se this
Loving the super creative mushroom tip just seconds before as well at 0:16
@@StonayBalogna AHH NOT THE DIC-
6:53 I enjoyed the perspective shot of this mushroom cloud too (the transition was clean too).
Being able to freely watch quality content like this is a blessing.
I watched an ad before this video without skipping. So I've technically paid for this content.
Agree dude
@@Riddlemethiseveryone "🤓"
You didn't pay anymoney though,just a few seconds of time
Truly!
As an Indonesian, it's always fascinating how our country sits directly between several tectonic plates so that there are lots of volcanoes waiting to erupt. Also, I appreciate how simple the Kurzgesagt animation always have been and the accuracy of some of the art (the houses, the plants, the general area) that got animated.
Edit: With that being said, I hope we don't have another supervolcano-sized eruption in our country again in the near future cause it'll be life-changing
Those volcanoes are exactly the reason why your country is so heavily populated. I love your country and would love to visit there one day. But yes, volcanoes are dangerous but they also are vital for life to prosper greatly, like how its doing now.
I agree, I’m Icelandic and we’re directly over a mantle plume and we also sit between two tectonic plates. I’d love to visit Indonesia someday!
well.... one of your volcanoes sent the Earth to ice age
@@UchihaFabio sooo big volcano boom can solve global warming?!
geothermal power is ridiculously underestimated in your country, despite it already killed so many people
Volcanoes: exists
Indonesia: I'll take your entire stock.
I'm from New Zealand and I swear they never taught me that lake taupo is actually a super volcano crater... Or I wasn't paying attention but that's not likely. Wait what was I talking about again?
Same here but we were taught it was a super volcano at high school. However I guess I didnt pay attention to what the volcano was called before it was just Lake Taupo haha.
I remember learning about this at school where I live in New Zealand.
@@PurpleAmharicCoffee what part? I'm down south in the south island, might be why 😂
I remember learning this... I don't think it was at school, though. There's just pumice everywhere on the lake shore, so when I visited with my family as a kid, I asked about this weird floating rock (seriously, pumice floats! It's neat!) and learned from a local that Lake Taupo was once a mountain that just blew itself to smithereens one day.
Meh they lied in school 😅 I'm from Aotearoa as well the super volcano is actually the Ring of Fire and its actually bigger than what they've been saying... everyone will know when the earthquakes dont stop (birth pains of the bride of Christ) and the volcanos combine to make the future lake of fire. Its going to be hard to miss whats coming
I don't think I will ever find another educational channel that reaches the peaks of entertainment, fun, informative, and researched as this.
Yes
Cool
And existential dread
Yes Indeed
I’ll eat you.
I love the Easter egg of Gollum falling into the volcano with the ring. It’s always so cool to see animators hide little Easter eggs in their works, great job guys
How did u coment tree times?
This channel is incredible. From the animation, the music, narrating, and of course education. It is perfection at it's peak
I remember when I just was a kid learning about Yellowstone from a documentary, and I was so scared of a super eruption afterwards that I would lie awake every night, worried that every sound of an airplane passing overhead was Yellowstone erupting.
I wish I’d had this video back then.
this is literally my situation now. any time i hear the garbage truck pick up my garbage bin and let it down in the morning i wake up in a panic 😂 how did u mitigate this feeling of paranoia ? would really help
I'm the same 😩 a train or a plane passing during the night is enough to start my heart racing and keep me from falling asleep.
@@mybalcony4066 bruh if somethings coming to get you you'll be able to work out what it is. People/things arent machine precise and weve got hundreds of thousands of years of evolution behind us in hearing shit coming after you lmao
@@waah5901 I didn't say it was a rational fear, I can't help the way it makes me feel 🤷♀️
@@axelmartinez3540 I'd say jsut keep in mind there are hundreds if not thousand sof people monitoring Yellowstone (and other volcanoes) 24/7. If it was going to erupt, you'd hear about it in the news, on Reddit, etc long before anything happened. We won't get jumpscared by it.
My favorite fun fact about Krakatoa is that there’s a fair amount of evidence that it was the main inspiration for Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”. In a journal entry, he described how he was walking with two friends when a sort of “artificial sunset” (caused by the amount of debris kicked into the air) occurred. It was so impactful on him that he made his most famous work because of it.
Described like this doesn't sound like a reputable fact.
Especially bc it isn't.
Since most of it doesn't make too much sense, since it was way too far and improbable to have caused such an event.
Almost everyone has given the event on the Polar lights.
Since he is /was Norwegian, and we know that both the painting and that Munch, were in Norway.
Without considering that he already said that "it was a sensation of having heard a scream or simply of having felt it".
Call me David shalla
@@piotrcarafa7993 im not a super nerd about the art world n stuff but - a) im having a hard time (but by no means impossible) finding people giving the event on the Polar lights. many many are crediting the krak.
b) the sky reddening from krakatoa was worldwide and lasted like a year.
@@piotrcarafa7993 Obviously you haven't seen aurora borealis in real life. There's no fucking way it could have created such a sensation in the artist.
Several works, actually. There are several versions of The Scream by Munch.
I've always thought of volcanos as huge earth pimples
You forgot to mention the difference between a high silicate lava volcano and a low silicate lava volcano. The high ratio has higher viscosity, that's the perfect recipe for raising pressure and make it explode (like Krakatoa), in the other hand the low ratio has almost no power for explosion and usually keeps expelling magma for a long time (like Kilauea) 😊
Also, less silicate is far tastier
@@teathesilkwing7616 Wait what?
@@LightsaberDuelz what? Don’t tell me you unironically like the silicates. Tastes horrible
@@teathesilkwing7616I’m just gonna watch in fear
3:54 give this man a raise
Hongatongahongahab
The peppa pig narrator went ooga booga mode
Why the fuck did I say this
@@bobik3788 Hunga Tonga ha'apai
The visual formula of Kurzegesagt is both simplistic and impressive, I love how it makes things I have never had interest in before interesting!
Kurzgesagt - Bringing you education and existential dread in cartoon form.
True. they are the best
Made in germany 💪
It’s like if the corporate art style was good
I like your take, but I think the humor is also a big part of why their formula is so effective
9:22 - THANK YOU!!! I've been saying this for years. Use Yellowstone for power and let the air out of the balloon if it's so world-ending.
I remember an episode from the History Channel miniseries on apocalypses (most of them being drastic climate temperature drops by diverse causes). On of them had saying that the Yellowstone eruption would have energy equivalent to 11 on the Richter scale, enough to launch a large amount of molten rock in orbit. Bit of exaggerating
The fact u guys actually mentioned that "Super Volcano" isnt a real term us volcanists use is so awesome.
Thank u guys!!
You’re a volcanist? What do you do on your job? How did you become one?
their research is superb
Geologists when I distract them with an obsidian knife, before bashing their heads with a bat
@@rokogucic bro why do give a care like it doesn’t effect you
@@boiltheman2802
He is curious, not skeptical. Calm down.
I really appreciate the more positive spin you've been giving more recent videos: less "we're all doomed" and more "here's an interesting problem we'll need to get around to fixing/preventing some day".
ok
ok
I think they must have had a chat about it because the depressing spin was really too much especially during the pandemic.
the positive spin is based on a lot of guesstimates. we don't know everything and yellowstone has a very real possibility of ending humanity
We are all doomed, but not for a while…
As a geologist, i feel so happy that a channel like this make videos that can transmit the knowledge of our planet in such a beautiful way, i hope everyone feel the same emotion that i feel watching this.
Greetings from Colombia! 🌋⛏️
Hey geologist, can harvesting geothermal energy near a volcano cool it down and either stop or hinder it's eruption? If so it would kill two birds with a mountain sized stone, renewable energy and volcanic disasters.
I know right thats exactly what I was thinking
Colombia together with geology instantly remind me of the Armero tragedy.
Well said! It's difficult to find sources of reliable, unbiased scientific knowledge which is perfectly explained in easy to understand ways. Inspiring education for all!
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Great Video! Another good video idea could be "Yellowstone eruption minute by minute!" I would love to see that!
The fact that this is free is wild
VEI 2 : About 10 events per year
VEI 3 : Semeru, Indonesia (2021)
VEI 6 : Krakatoa, Indonesia (1883) - Changed the world, global temp -0.5C
VEI 7 : Tambora, Indonesia (1815) - A year without summer, 100.000 people perished
VEI 8 : "Supervolcano" Lake Toba, Indonesia (74.000 years ago) - global temp -4C, 10 years volcanic winter followed by worldwide drought for centuries
And I born, grown, and still living in that country 😐
Dude get outta there asap
*Nature is telling us something. Maybe we are truly an Avatar nation*
Hahaha, I'm also Indonesian
Indonesia is a literal hotbed for volcanic activity. Luckily humanity is getting really good at understanding threats and the warning signs of eruptions, so for most people volcanoes can be a fascination and not an active threat.
Hello from the Canadian prairies, about as far from volcanic threat as you can get! I wish you well.
You forgot vei 4 of Kelut and Merapi in 2014 and 2010 respectively.
Imagine FOUR volcanoes in your country mentioned in video about volcanic mayhem, each mentioned with increasing scale of destruction. I'm in happy tears!
The fact that I live reatively close to Yellowstone(close enough to be sure dead if it erupted) is just really unsettling. My anxiety is bad but the video is amazing.
Let's just take a moment to appreciate that this is free. All of this information as entertainment that's somehow very interesting is free. I respect today's this channel is immeasurable.
Given how recent the asteroid redirection mission was I am impressed you managed to add it. Factual reliability and relevance this is why we love Kurzgesagt.
“With determination Humanity really can solve anything” gave me goosebumps
@@mycutecats3152 *black hole casually passes close to Earth* oh yeah? Then SOLVE THIS!! ;)
They even mocked the 7th episode of The Rings of Power which aired less than 2 weeks ago
@@Elbox95 Timestamp?
@@ArawnOfAnnwn 10:05
There are 'tsunami markers' in Japan that date back centuries that state not to build below the marker because of past tsunamis. Some of those markers are unfathomably high in the mountains.
I'm not sure what's a more worrying thought: if the survivors put the tsunami markers that high up themselves, or if the wave moved ones that were already lower down the mountainside...
I have to say, the sound effects in this video were superb and blew me away!
4:16 this part had no business being so absurdly funny and true at the same time
The part about the super volcanos being in little blasts blew my mind. I loved the explanation! Thank you!
They are incredible physical remnants of chaotic events in our past.
Nice one.
👌👌👌👌 nice
Nice video
Very good content
Good content
I came in expecting another apocalypse report, and came away feeling a lot less afraid of volcanoes than I was before. Nice.
Underrated comment and SAME
The amount of things that could kill us all.... yet have a very unlikely chance of happening.....
Being within a close range of a supernova, super volcano eruptions, the magnetosphere being throwing off by a hair....overpopulation, ect....
It's crazy
In actuality, there isn't much of a reason to fear "endcanos"
Like what you gonna do? Live on the moon?
@@Limrassonwdym, why would I not be scared of my body literally melting like ice
@@whatever_hi_in_spanish_isBecause is not point to suffer for something that you can’t avoid. Maybe don’t be scared, just look the solution out in case something treat your life. Maybe just accept death. Wherever the case millions of people been living their life without any issues. If is the end of the the humanity and we can’t do nothing about it lets just die on peace. Why you think die is negative? Is just the ending of a cycle, and totally unavoidable. Die suffering maybe bad but if is a lava volcano on top of you you won’t have time to suffer too much as your nerves will melt pretty quickly. There is thousands ways to die worse than that in todays days.
"These sorts of eruptions don't change the climate, they are the climate."
This gave me chills...
The music at about 4:32 is amazing. Perfect metal sound for what he describes
Bit of a lengthy post, but a few things people might find interesting on the topic: Oceanic plates will (almost*) always subduct beneath continental plates because oceanic plates are more dense. You'll only have a high-stakes sumo match between oceanic/oceanic and continental/continental plates. Sometimes nobody really wins and you just get a lot of mountain building. Much of the melt caused by oceanic plates subducting is due to the oceanic plate dragging water down into the asthenosphere with it. Water just lowers the temperature required to melt the surrounding rock and the oceanic plate itself doesn't melt all that much. Some oceanic plates are suspected to have actually made it all the way to the core without completely melting based on remote sensing maps we have of the earth's inner structure.
Suspected, but not confirmed, is a relationship between meteor impacts and antipodal volcanism. That's volcanism on the opposite side of the planet from the impact. It's most visible on Mars (numerous examples) and Mercury (caloris basin), but Chicxulub was roughly antipodal to the Deccan Traps and they happened at virtually the same time in geologic time. There's also a potential crater under the ice in Antarctica, detected as a gravity anomaly, that would have been roughly antipodal to the Siberian Traps. The coolest part is the examples are all proportional to each other; larger impacts seem to have caused greater volcanism.
* Apparently oceanic plates do not always subduct beneath continental in those faults, it's just much more commonly the case. There's at least one example of this not being the case in the comments below. There's some debate on it.
Oh that actually pretty interesting I remember learning about this once in secondary school , good reminder
Man this is the kind of stuff I wish they went more detail into in school this is awesome
So, I have a question.
Just like pointed out in this video, "magma" and "molten rock" aren't actually synonymous?
I thought magma was just lava but underneath the crust.
@@colt9836 I think molten rock is an umbrella term for both lava and magma
Now this is the real life lore that I like to see. Ahh..Earth and its mysteries
"They don't change the climate, they are the climate"
What a powerful line!!
'I don't change the climate, I am the climate'
- Volcano White
my favorite part of these videos are the subtle sound effects. like i love finding new ones i didn't notice before
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Some videos just make you realize how fragile life actually is, and you have far less time than you think. Helps you keep grounded, with an optimism for the future, and an appreciation for the past.
Watch fully before you comment
@@dorol6375 watch fully before you reply
@@gauravrathi5877 hundreds of millions of years is a lot more than most people think.
you think life is fragile when life has persisted through supervolcanic activity that has affected the entire planet for hundreds of years? you call that fragile? what the hell?
You can die at any second, it’s crazy that people live to be 100 years old’
As an Indonesian, I used to learn that our country situated at "Ring of Fire", so it's one of the locations that have most active volcanoes. To put in example, Toba supervolcano in Sumatra erupted very long ago, and it formed Toba lake with Samosir Island right in the middle of it. Another example is Merapi eruption, which cost some casualties that sadly burnt alive inside the bunker under the foot of the volcano.
Stay save over there and if the sea runs away one day - run for the hills!
@@molybdaen11 My father used to tell me that story when I was a little kid.
I'm Indonesian too, I'm also love how Kurzgesagt always listening for every detail from volcanologist by how it happened and affecting the world thorughout the history
after listening to the VEI level, i am shocked because almost all the mountains are from indonesia
ur mon is a an Indonesian
Thanks to follow this channel for almost 5 years, my English skill is improved and my knowledge is full filled with all these amazing things, thank you so much. It's very long time since the last time I visit this channel, still full of video too watch, and community is getting huge :D
God I love the effort they put into the art and the sounds. Please never stop being as amazing as you are.
yoo hoo!
fr, when I heard the first volcano sound I deadass thought something exploded for real outside my house
I love the Easter egg of Gollum falling into the volcano with the ring. It’s always so cool to see animators hide little Easter eggs in their works, great job guys
*realised I spelt the name wrong lmao, changed it now :)
Yeah, i think they end up with this subject cause of the last episode of the show. It is indeed a good question that many could have.
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Where did that happen?
Thank you! I was gonna make a comment myself about this if nobody else did.
@@trex576 3:32
Krakatoa's explosion was 10 trillion times louder than a rocket taking off? I can't even fathom that kind of scale...that's insane
Which makes me think which counsequences on humans that would make, without considering being killed by the explosion itself
Like yeah, insta deaf for sure...but would our heads pop like mars attack or what??
@@spdutahraptor777 yeah I feel like being close proximity to that kind of pressure wave would cause heads to pop just like Mars Attacks. That’s nuts. Feel like half of Indonesia would’ve gone deaf
Im not even kidding, the noise was so insane it knocked the wind out of people’s lungs which suffocated and killed them…
@@TheSlipknotWeeb that’s insane
@@High_KeyI think the entirety of Indonesia went deaf, the shock waves were heard all across the world
i love who u explained the scale of volcano giving us anxiety but ended the video with a good note thanks
Do more geology please!! All your space stuff are awesome but I really think you need a series where we explore all the wonders of our home. Not enough of people really understand how the Earth works because it's such a young science but you guys can change that.
I looove geology, and science in general!
You should watch the history of the earth
@@hiiamjustacoolrandomuser168 .where can I find that? Is it on Netflix?
@@charliehopley9297 it is on youtube it is channel it makes documentaries about the earth
@@hiiamjustacoolrandomuser168 thank you. How am I geology student and not subscribed to that😂 thanks a lot
A note about the Siberian Traps - one of the reasons they were so deadly is that they touched a deposit of coal, creating a massive cloud of fly ash that circled the Earth multiple times.
Also, Siberian Traps were one of the most deadly natural disasters in Earth's history. They were formed when a massive lava flow erupted in Siberia, Russia, about 250 million years ago. The lava flow covered an area of more than 1.5 million square kilometers (600,000 square miles), making it the largest known lava flow in Earth's history. The lava flow was so large that it touched a deposit of coal, creating a massive cloud of fly ash that circled the Earth multiple times. This cloud of fly ash caused the Earth's atmosphere to become so thick that it blocked out the Sun's rays, causing a global cooling event known as the Permian-Triassic extinction event. This event was so devastating that it killed more than 90% of all life on Earth.
Whenever a eruption higher then vei 1 is possible, usually lava isn't your main issue. Ash has insanely destructive powers and has potential to kill millions.
@@minecris. Wow... unfathomable!
The thing is siberian traps is not the only one that can do that..... Its not even the strongest thats just more terrifying!
The fact that Mauna Loa just erupted makes us feel vulnerable
Toba, Tambora, Krakatoa. as an indonesian we have our own stories and legends around these event, stories about great kingdoms that perish on tambora, stories about how toba (now its a huge lake) formed, and krakatoa (still actives, dangerous and grows).
Super interesting, and as you guys pointed out, supervolcanoes are definitely not the biggest natural disaster threat to us right now. One big issue is natural disasters that used to happen but now are getting out of proportion. For example, our crew registered how small wildfires are a part of a natural cycle that helps the environment regenerate itself. But because we kept on suppressing these natural wildfires, now the fires happen so intensively that it is not beneficial for us or other species. And this is an actual threat that we need to be concerned about.
So, erm ... 'the firefighters are to blame', you're saying? That's a new one.
@@razzle1964 That is a new one indeed...
In actual forest reserves and park land we are doing a fair amount of pre-burns to reduce that threats. And that something Early Spanish explorers noticed in FL(the very big area they labeled includes lots of Georgia and Alabama parts of Carrolinas even maybe) that they could ride 8 wide thanks to no underbrush from the yearly burn the natives did. And especially out of current Florida huge areas of nothing but farm land as far as eye could see. Forests were part of a long crop rotation cycle. Only the very hilly and swampy parts of the New World were virgin forest the rest farm land that turned into forests as all but a tiny part of the survivors of European disease coming up to Mexico killed them off the vast majority dying before there were whites in the area.
@@razzle1964 Not really new. It was said for centuries.
@@razzle1964 They aren't saying it's the firefighters fault, but that over management of forests for fires has caused a buildup of dead wood and, dense stands, and other fuel for large fire events. Regular burns are a part of the natural landscape changes but our suppression of them over time has increased their average intensity to something no longer beneficial to the landscape leading to further fire management. It's unfortunately a self perpetuating cycle, not the fighters fault, but a fault of our overall management practices these last few hundred years.
I’ve walked on Krakatoa and swam in lake Toba. They are incredible physical remnants of chaotic events in our past.
Here before this blows up
@@ordinaryrat hehe, blows up
I live in Indonesia too, but never go there before. But, i have climbed few mountains in my province (East Java). They have a historical events too. The mountains are Kelud, Bromo, and Arjuno
Put my shoes here
-Walks on ground
-Swims in water
"Wow such incredible physical remnants of chaotic events"
Cool story bro
3:50 I did get a confirmation, that about 6km of material was ejected into the sky, but actual volume hasn't been revealed yet.
Humanity has done incredible things to ensure its own survival.
Every month we come together to appreciate the supreme quality of content Kurzgesagt provides
Who knew Heisenberg was interested in science
LOL good joke, that last societal collapse video was premium doomer garbage
I love this channel so much
Truly the moment when Heisenberg watched kurzgesagt
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3:47 fr did my boy like that
This is the best channel I have ever seen!!! Keep up the good work.
7:12 the little harps here are such a good touch that always gets me haha; like we're looking back at a fond memory :P
Krakatau (native term for Krakatoa), Tambora, Toba has always fascinated me since the first time I heard about it. Living in Indonesia and hearing my parents and grandparents talk about their memory of volcano eruption made me somehow "numb" to the experience of volcanic eruption. But when I saw the Merapi eruption which triggered ash rain back in the day, it scared me a lot. After that, I read about Tambora and Toba, I remember I can't sleep for days
One interesting thing I've learned about Indonesia is that it's one of the most populous countries in the world thanks to how fertile the land is. And the land is so productive for growing food because of the nutrients spread all over from volcanic ash. So the volcanoes may be scary, but you likely have your existence because of them! It's seems a common theme in this universe that from destruction comes creation
@@BodyMusicification Wow! What a great metaphor for Indonesia! I'll remember this. Thank you!
@@BodyMusicification Also has the tragic side-effect of most population centers in Indonesia being right up next to active volcanos. Swear every time they have a decent sized eruption at least 100k people perish.
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Check it out and tell me what you think 🔥🌪️
I'm one of the best singers in the world 🌎💥
“With determination Humanity really can solve anything” gave me goosebumps
As someone who is learning this in geography for a A-Level this is super informative and is so much easier to understand than the way I'm currently being taught
Depends where and how badly. For example the Campi Flegrei supervolcano's last eruption in 1538 wasn't very big. However, as it is in a heavily populated area in the suburbs of the Italian city of Naples (Napoli), the potential for disaster is enormous.
There's so many things worth praising about this video, but I keep coming back to 3:53 and listening to the narrator say "Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'pai" in the most elegantly deadpan voice XD. I'd love to know how many takes that took, or if the narrator was even aware of how delightfully rhythmic their speech was before listening to cuts later on. As always, an absolute joy to get to watch these masterpieces, especially with them being free. Keep it up, Kurzgesagt!
Finally they covered the Permian Triassic extinction. It really needs more exposure since it was the biggest.
Yeah, the Permian extinction needs to be covered more.
I think he mispronounced it as the "Permiam" in this video though. Pronounced it with an M instead of an N at the end.
@@ManateeMentality N*
Siberian is not the only one and it wasn't close to being the strongest there is another one out there that will make you wanna leave this planet.
Having videos like these, filled with absolutely incredible information and beautiful animations is so so amazing. Thank you to all imvolved in these. And thank you to those that can donate to this channel and buy their cool merch :D
And pretty nice music too
@@DT-Wise True dat
bro i found this humanly normal comment after scrolling through ten billion botted comments
I know that this is a somewhat old video but I would just like to say I have followed your channel for so long and it is really entertaining and encourages me to continue my work with science and I guess that’s just a really long way of saying thank you and I support all of your videos.
Your channel helped me to make more than 10 presentations to my school projects
Editor : So, how many Indonesian Volcano you'd like to mention?
Kurzgesagt : Yes !
That explosion noise at 6:52
Fantastic.
A kurzgesagt video that saves you from existential dread? Now that's rarer than a super erruption from a super volcano
I've learned so much from your videos.
Fun fact: the red sky in the painting "The Scream" is made because of the red ash cloud due to the Krakatau explosion (4:00)
Supervolcanoes are one of my most favorite things to study in our planet! They're so interesting and seeing a video about it in this channel is such a gift for the minds!
You are right. The topic is perfect
Their so cool!
How many minds you got bro?
@@darksu6947 at least one more than you
@Trent Hamsley ratio
The music
Animation
Information
Pacing
I seriously love this channel ❤
I love the little details in the video, like no snow flake the same or the little charon on the lava lake
If you're at all worried by the concept of volcanos/super-volcanos, the best thing I can recommend is to continue to educate yourself about them, and support the scientists who dedicate their time to continually improve our ability to predict such events! Thanks for more great content!
lol
We no longer live in a world where "educate yourself" is safe advice for someone afraid of something. If I look for something I'm afraid of on the internet, I'm going to find other people's fears manifested as misleading things taken out of context from experts, cherry picked data, and diatribes that sound reasonable solely because they reinforce my existing thoughts.
Instead it's best to give people specific sources to look at like the US Geological Survey, or this video, or sources you've vetted to make sure they aren't sensationalist.
That's not to say reinforcing ones fears online by searching what someone is afraid of is actually "educating" oneself but people easily fall into the trap of thinking it is while they're doing it.
You actually believe that humans being able to predict this will have some effect on the aftermath of a supervolcano?
Super volcano are interesting to look at. But, the thing to remember is how improbable it is that an event like this will happen in your lifetime. You should be devoting your concerns on more likely events.
Be realistic. Your government is more likely to kill you with a bad law than a volcano will.
@@ohsweetmystery Yes. It would be kind of weird to think it wouldn't. Evacuations of the most critical areas, preparing emergency supplies, lowering water levels in reservoirs and then closing them to avoid secondary disasters, sheltering emergency vehicles and road clearing equipment. And on a global level, preparing food stores and preserving the necessary seed supplies for several years of poor harvest and investing heavily into vertical farming to avoid famine.
"Supervolcano" is just a media name. They are more likely to erupt in a far less disastrous manner, which can be managed like any other volcano, and even an actual supereruption can be mitigated to a large degree with the months of advanced preparation we would have. It would certainly be a disaster, but a far less severe one than you seem to think. The supereruptions are enormous movements of material, they don't happen overnight, they aren't subtle, and there are none of civilization-ending severity near the surface right now.
Mount Semeru, Mount Krakatoa, Mount Tambora, and Mount Toba are all in Indonesia. thats amazing
Not if you live in Indonesia
Hunga tunga actually was stronger than scientists thought and raised the vei to 6 and had a pyroclastic flow that went 50miles in every direction
Would love to see a series on different types of destructive weather, tornadoes , hurricanes/cyclones, lightning, etc
Honestly would love to see a breakdown of cloud types and merch and posters with that 😮
I’m saving this video for later when I’m home, because high quality content has to be watched in high video quality.
I am obsessed with your channel. You’ve retained your simplistic style but the quality and colours keeps getting better and better. These videos are eye candy, and also the fact that each video has its own original music?? I love it
There’s even leit motifs in the music referencing other videos and it’s amazing
It’s true
I bet you are obsessed with the flavor of dirty bee whole as well. Go clean the sea men stains out of your clothes and then come talk to me.
the leitmotifs are the most under appreciated aspects of these vids that make it 10x better
Campi Flegrei is the only volcano that is likely to have a significant eruption anytime soon. Its largest known eruption was near super volcano class, and was relatively recent. Currently, next supervolcanic eruption will likely come from Lake Taupo in New Zealand.
I love your illustration of the volcano formation
9:08 - the way the bird in the car hid its head inside the cabin is so cute
8:08 These sorts of eruptions doesn't change the climate, they are the climate!.
my mind goes to 'I'm not in danger Skyler, I'm the danger' lol
I thought the exact thing lmao
- The senate will decide your fate.
- I *am* the senate!
Jokes aside, mother nature is terrifying and sometimes likes to remind us just how much power it has and how insignificant we are compared to it.
Bro wtf this video explained how volcanoes are actually formed to me in less than 2 minutes unlike my school which I did not understand whatsoever even after a 10 minute lecture
A channel which deserves watching the video ads to their end.
I appreciate this channel creating so high-quality videos and valuable scientific informations!!
LOL
@@julianw1010 What's so funny? Free resources for science are great
@@MellonyBear These comments are bots, another comment had 500 likes in just 20 minutes lol
not Jul W's, I mean OP's comment
I totally agree with you. I really love all videos in this channel. I can improve my English easily
I love the mention of the Flood Basaltic Eruptions like the Siberian Traps. I would love a video on The Great Dying as a whole. You guys did the Dinosaurs, i'd love to see a video on the worlds most catastrophic extinction.
Totally agree!
That kettle ending got me for some reason. It just looked beautiful and sharp =)
Shout out Lake Taupo!
Glad to hear you've started rumbling again recently
I was so often getting afraid of Yellowstone erupting and ending our world by modern media, that it really worried me. Thank you so much for putting this "danger" into perspective!
Love your channel!
Yellowstone is not due to erupt. It isn't even really a super volcano and likely won't erupt ever again and if it does, it'll be at least 300 million years way due to other reasons
Blows up the next day...
What exactly makes this channel so much more accurate than the other outlets you've heard?
I'm still hoping that Yellowstone will blow in my lifetime! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@tjls123 motive. kurzgesagt makes their money off of making good and truthful content and then people buying merch. news channels get profits off of fear. they make people scared of something so they tune in every day to watch their news to see if there was any updates to this scary thing.
This is why I live this channel, 2 minutes and I already understand volcanos better than ever before, its just better at teacher than anything else I have seen. The animators and crew here are ao talented.
Report trent he stoopid :)
4:17 You can hear a faint Wilhelm scream when the explosion occurs, nice touch from Kurzgesagt.
I love this.
I'm thinking about Calamities that are still undiscovered.
Like, parts of the deep ocean that are still unaccessible to scientists.
6:07 ayo that pot man 🤨
WHOS POT MAN-
@@KxrbiiExraThe6th that pot man
That pooooot
ayo what’s in that pot 🤨 (Written by my son)
The Volcano on the intro fits perfectly 👑 🌋
This channel is so good man
The Volcano in New Zealand also erupted again some 1800 years ago and was seen as far away as Rome - where it was noted by historians. Observers in China also recorded bright skies for weeks at the same time.
Glad we didn't experienced how the Apolaki Caldera first exploded, it might've not been the magma reservoir but the real thing
7:28 the ice age squirrel reference, appreciated