Thank you for your timely and thorough volcano news, and your hypotheses regarding what may happen or why an event occurred the way it did. I learn a lot. I especially appreciate how you are not a sensationalist nor are your videos click-bate. Keep up the great work.
Thank you for keeping us informed. Please do a special on E Africa's volcanos / seismic activity. That information is hard to find, and the public knows little about it. Thank you! Edit: Also, thank you for refining your camera work with Google Earth. I no longer get motion sick to your videos. :)
What I loved seeing with the Kilauea eruption was when it stopped, you could see all the lava feeding draining back down the vent. There was a very noticeable drop in the level of erupted lava.
Happy New Year! Thank you for what you do on this channel. It’s informative and factual. BTW really enjoyed seeing your interview on Shawn Willsey’s channel. Would never have guessed this is your real voice, not computer generated. Hope you have a great 2025
@@marshallpeters1437Agreed, this is most likely basaltic magma coming up. I know volcanic eruptions aren't always guaranteed, but with nearly 5 centimeters of uplift per day for a week, to me that screams an eruption days or weeks away from now.
@@sigisoltau6073 The trapped gasses can lift the surface until it cracks, releasing the trapped gas. If the release can stay ahead of the build up, the surface will then drop back down. This closes those cracks causing gas to be trapped again, which starts the cycle over... I'm not sure if this volcano "breathes", but enough active volcanos do that I wouldn't be surprised. P.S. I didn't understand enough of the papers retain the "why", but the mechanics of the observed phenomina was pretty simple to understand. (When they talk about specific lavas & gasses instead of volumes and flow rates, I'm lost and nodding along.)
@@nunyadayumbusiness591 IIRC, some volcanoes in the region are notable for having rather unusually fluid and non explosive rhyolite flows. Perhaps unusually hot rhyolite + degassing like this (which would prevent it from just being explosive) would lead to that. Maybe this very unusual activity for a silicic system is the runup to one of those very unusual events.
*I LIVE 30 MILES AWAY FROM KILAUEA IN DOWN TOWN HILO, YOU'D THINK THAT I WOULD BE KEEPING MINUTE BY MINUTE TRACK OF WHAT'S GOING ON WITH IT, TO BE FRANKLY HONEST WITH YOU, I'VE GOT TOO MUCH CHAOS AND HARDSHIPS SLAMMING DOWN ON ME RIGHT NOW, TO GIVE MUCH ATTENTION TO IT. IN A WAY IF IT GOES DRAMATICALLY OFF, IT WOULD SOLVE A LOT OF ISSUES IN MY LIFE*
Great video! I live in Buffalo, NY USA and would love to see a video regarding the formation of the Great Lakes, and the Niagara Escarpment and falls.. Many Thx..Happy New Year
34 centimeters in a week? That's about 4.85 cm per day. I could be wrong, but that screams eruption just days or weeks from now. Magma is also most likely basaltic.
@ia1n673 I honestly don't think rhyolite magma can move that fast because of the viscosity it has. Also I don't think rhyolite can form an intrusion that long, at least I've never heard of one this long.
@@sigisoltau6073 True, rhyolite does move significantly slower. But like he said, this system is VERY under monitored so it’s hard to know exactly how long this has been going on for.
@@sigisoltau6073 IIRC some of the volcanoes in the region are notable for their rhyolite flows, which are unusually fluid and gas poor. I remember an image that almost looked like it was obsidian pahoehoe. Perhaps this very strange activity is a runup to an eruption like that? Gas poor, fluid rhyolite _almost_ seems like it would fit the behavior here. I don't think one of those types of eruptions has yet been observed (even comparatively more common obsidian flows have only been observed like once or twice IIRC) so we don't really know what it would look like.
Imagine a family sitcom where Kilimanjaro is a chill guy with a dad bod and Erta Ale is the hyperactive (no pun intended) little kid that pulls pranks on everyone
Dude, the vog (volcanic fog) is absolutely killing me. I'm on Oahu but the vog the other day was so thick you could see rays of sunshine all day. I can normally see the Waianae Mts from the Waialae area but they were totally obscured. Worst it's been in years, definitely the worst I can remember.
You said the intrusion in Ethiopia was either basalt or rhyolite. Are all of the African rift zone volcanoes bimodal? How does the volcano that erupts that black lava that cools to white fit into the picture? i recently learned about bimodal volcanism in Nick Zentner's Cascades A to Z series. That's why i'm curious !:-)
Thank you for another very informative video! If possible, please make another video next year about the splitting of Africa? I live in South Africa and although i probably wont be alive by the time it happens im sure it will be remarkable to experience! The tsunamis will probably whipe out most of SA ❤❤❤
Brilliant video! Thank you again for all you do. Fyi there’s a channel claiming Krakatoa erupted recently. I’m not sure about the vid footage but possibly legit? I was hoping you could look into it and verify?
Just go through the weekly videos and you've got the information and could even publish it as a reply here. Though could be even more useful it Tim could do it, maybe for the full duration of the channel, and publish it as part of a video on trends (or lack of).
Hey Tim question for ya. If an earthquake triggered a tsunami in an already known big wave area where champaignship surfers surf would the waves in those area's be amplified or would the earthquake triggered tsunami be barely noticeable in those already big wave area's? Your video of the coast of South America made me think of that.
At the current rate that could take decades. The current level of the lava is roughly 150 meters from the 2018 rim of the caldera. That means it would take decades to fill just to that level. And that's taking into account that not ever eruption taking place within the caldera. Even if every eruption was within the caldera, it would take years at minimum for it to increase by the 150 meters to the 2018 rim level. Even then it would take years to completely fill the rest of the caldera to the observation post level.
In addition to what the other person had to say, if lava did eventually overflow the caldera rim, there would be plenty of time for people to prepare beforehand, and plenty of time after before the flows reached any significant number of structures, if they did at all.
@@Cider4144 If you are interested there are a ton of images available online from USGS and elsewhere. If you've ever seen a picture of Kilauea's summit prior to 2018, you'll remember that there was a smaller depression (called Halema'uma'u) inside a much wider broad caldera. The 2018 events led to the collapse and widening of that smaller depression, but it's still only a fraction of the size of the larger caldera, which is miles across. Since eruptions at the summit resumed in 2020, the smaller collapse structure has been filling up again, but as the previous poster stated, it's still a long way from the top even of that -- and it's big -- let alone from the top of the wider caldera. So in short, we're not going to see an overtopping of Kilauea's caldera ever with the kind of small scale summit eruptions that are typical there.
The USGS earthquake catalog is from the global seismic network, and usually contains only earthquakes larger than magnitude 4.5 for remote areas. There may be a local network that can detect smaller earthquakes.
@@ericfielding2540 I hear you yet my arguement is that one would expect eq departments to share info, esp when the activity is out of the ordinary. Secondly, you can set usgs to report all eq's regardless of size, which i have where even the .5mag eq's in nevada are showing up, while a series of 4+ in Africa are not.... In a tech world where data is king......a major network like usgs should be doing better than this. It leaves it open for conspiracy debate...
@BlackCeII I was guessing. It's almost like it's pancaking with lava eruptions, then getting weight down in a slow cycling of sorts. Eruption sink erupt sink erupt sink until the lava volumes supercedes solidifications.
@@dlane5292 I don't think it's cycling in that sense it's just a really big hole that the 2018 collapse left behind, and it will take a long time to fill it back up.
If you are referring to the tsunami in Peru that was a localized event which has no relationship with the activity in Hawaii. The 7.3 off the coast of the states was a separate system & even though it is where San Andreas & cascadia meet it did not cause both fault systems to fracture. One thing to be concerned about is the global sea level has increased by 6.5 inches since 1950. That additional mass puts more pressure on underwater and costal volcanoes. This is likely to cause more volcanic activity. As a bonus the eruptions will last longer and be more powerful.
He explained his voice on a colab with Shawn Willsey. Please think about other people’s potential conditions before being hasty in judgment. Let’s hope you or your kin never suffer any defects or health problems ❤
What the ***'*! Do not DARE do anything so patronising and insulting, learn some basic information about autism and other issues that can affect speech instead. By the way, Tim/GH contributes a great deal more to the Internet than you ever will, and part of that is precisely by not being afraid to run the gauntlet of commenters like you by posting in his real voice and not using any AI etc.
Your summaries have continued to improve in quality and specificity. Great Job!
Thank you for your timely and thorough volcano news, and your hypotheses regarding what may happen or why an event occurred the way it did. I learn a lot. I especially appreciate how you are not a sensationalist nor are your videos click-bate. Keep up the great work.
I appreciate that OP isn’t afraid to be incorrect in his hypotheses, but rather will later explain why his hypothesis was wrong
@ Same!
Thank you for keeping us informed. Please do a special on E Africa's volcanos / seismic activity. That information is hard to find, and the public knows little about it. Thank you!
Edit: Also, thank you for refining your camera work with Google Earth. I no longer get motion sick to your videos. :)
What I loved seeing with the Kilauea eruption was when it stopped, you could see all the lava feeding draining back down the vent. There was a very noticeable drop in the level of erupted lava.
It's shootin' back out again now!
I was in Awash 2 nights ago and the ground shook all night with some good size quakes, m4-m5, it was amazing to feel the earth alive like that.
Same with me, but then I observed my wife facing away from me after eating pulled pork with BBQ beans.
Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!
Thanks for the update.
the little drawing at 5:12. i like that
Agree! Works nicely to show scale. I'm glad someone else pointed it out
Thank you for another very informative video, Tim! Much appreciated :)
Thanks as always, Geology Hub!
Happy New Year! Thank you for what you do on this channel. It’s informative and factual. BTW really enjoyed seeing your interview on Shawn Willsey’s channel. Would never have guessed this is your real voice, not computer generated. Hope you have a great 2025
If a magma intrusion has created a foot of uplift in a week that's no joke there now. How's thats not erupting I have no idea.
If it was ryholite I would expect the eruption to have happened already. It not erupting yet screams basalt
@@marshallpeters1437Agreed, this is most likely basaltic magma coming up. I know volcanic eruptions aren't always guaranteed, but with nearly 5 centimeters of uplift per day for a week, to me that screams an eruption days or weeks away from now.
@@sigisoltau6073 The trapped gasses can lift the surface until it cracks, releasing the trapped gas. If the release can stay ahead of the build up, the surface will then drop back down. This closes those cracks causing gas to be trapped again, which starts the cycle over... I'm not sure if this volcano "breathes", but enough active volcanos do that I wouldn't be surprised.
P.S. I didn't understand enough of the papers retain the "why", but the mechanics of the observed phenomina was pretty simple to understand. (When they talk about specific lavas & gasses instead of volumes and flow rates, I'm lost and nodding along.)
@@nunyadayumbusiness591 IIRC, some volcanoes in the region are notable for having rather unusually fluid and non explosive rhyolite flows. Perhaps unusually hot rhyolite + degassing like this (which would prevent it from just being explosive) would lead to that. Maybe this very unusual activity for a silicic system is the runup to one of those very unusual events.
*I LIVE 30 MILES AWAY FROM KILAUEA IN DOWN TOWN HILO, YOU'D THINK THAT I WOULD BE KEEPING MINUTE BY MINUTE TRACK OF WHAT'S GOING ON WITH IT, TO BE FRANKLY HONEST WITH YOU, I'VE GOT TOO MUCH CHAOS AND HARDSHIPS SLAMMING DOWN ON ME RIGHT NOW, TO GIVE MUCH ATTENTION TO IT. IN A WAY IF IT GOES DRAMATICALLY OFF, IT WOULD SOLVE A LOT OF ISSUES IN MY LIFE*
Great video! I live in Buffalo, NY USA and would love to see a video regarding the formation of the Great Lakes, and the Niagara Escarpment and falls.. Many Thx..Happy New Year
Thank you, keep working.
All these lava flows give new meaning to "Can you smell what the Rock is cooking?"
Yes, I can, and it smells like rotten eggs.
Happy new year...thanks for the learning.
34 centimeters in a week? That's about 4.85 cm per day. I could be wrong, but that screams eruption just days or weeks from now. Magma is also most likely basaltic.
Well let’s really hope it’s basaltic. A rhyolitic eruption from a 22 mile long dike is not about to be minor, but rather screams VEI=4 or greater.
@ia1n673 I honestly don't think rhyolite magma can move that fast because of the viscosity it has.
Also I don't think rhyolite can form an intrusion that long, at least I've never heard of one this long.
@@sigisoltau6073 True, rhyolite does move significantly slower. But like he said, this system is VERY under monitored so it’s hard to know exactly how long this has been going on for.
@@sigisoltau6073 IIRC some of the volcanoes in the region are notable for their rhyolite flows, which are unusually fluid and gas poor. I remember an image that almost looked like it was obsidian pahoehoe. Perhaps this very strange activity is a runup to an eruption like that? Gas poor, fluid rhyolite _almost_ seems like it would fit the behavior here. I don't think one of those types of eruptions has yet been observed (even comparatively more common obsidian flows have only been observed like once or twice IIRC) so we don't really know what it would look like.
Love the sped up laga flow videos
Happy new year all.
Theme song for the African Rift Valley, "Breaking up is hard to do."
Imagine a family sitcom where Kilimanjaro is a chill guy with a dad bod and Erta Ale is the hyperactive (no pun intended) little kid that pulls pranks on everyone
Volcanic lightening always fascinates me with all that hot smoking energy rising up through all that cold air creating random bolts of lightening.🏔🌋
Mother nature's version of scorched earth brings a whole new meaning to the term.
Lol 😂🤣😂 wait to you see what God does 🙏
Get saved 🙏✝️
Thanks for your interesting videos and my comment for the algorithm.
Happy New Year to all of you 😊🐞🍀
we had an earthquake like a week ago in Finland. it should be a interesting topic to cover!
2:10 The burning bush! 😆
Dude, the vog (volcanic fog) is absolutely killing me. I'm on Oahu but the vog the other day was so thick you could see rays of sunshine all day. I can normally see the Waianae Mts from the Waialae area but they were totally obscured. Worst it's been in years, definitely the worst I can remember.
Your explanations are terrific thank you, and happy new year.
You said the intrusion in Ethiopia was either basalt or rhyolite. Are all of the African rift zone volcanoes bimodal? How does the volcano that erupts that black lava that cools to white fit into the picture? i recently learned about bimodal volcanism in Nick Zentner's Cascades A to Z series. That's why i'm curious !:-)
3.29 ohhhh🌋
Thank you for another very informative video! If possible, please make another video next year about the splitting of Africa? I live in South Africa and although i probably wont be alive by the time it happens im sure it will be remarkable to experience! The tsunamis will probably whipe out most of SA ❤❤❤
No to the second part - the separation will probably occur over at minimum the next million years or so at minimum.
But a definite yes to the first part, a video on it would be much appreciated 🤗
@@davidcranstone9044 🤣🤣🤣 jip!
Brilliant video! Thank you again for all you do. Fyi there’s a channel claiming Krakatoa erupted recently. I’m not sure about the vid footage but possibly legit? I was hoping you could look into it and verify?
If it's Anak Krakatoa and not click-baity it's probably OK.
@@davidcranstone9044 th-cam.com/video/czj4kh2iLfo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=IYNz-H8tdG6S-DwG
id be curious to see a chart of the number of active volcanoes by week.
Just go through the weekly videos and you've got the information and could even publish it as a reply here. Though could be even more useful it Tim could do it, maybe for the full duration of the channel, and publish it as part of a video on trends (or lack of).
*holds up a branch of marshmallows*
34cm uplift in a single week is absurd
Boom
42 volcanoes only? It was 49 last time I noticed.
It's pretty much always between 40 and 50.
Volcano in Oregon possible eruption?
If there was an eruption on this dike in Ethiopia, could it be the same as what is happening in Iceland?
You showed drainback of lava, but didn't identify when it was happening. Kilauea had drainback in 1959, rare occurrence.
The drainback occurred as the recent cycles ended. Or at least as the first one did; I wasn't paying close attention to the second.
Quick! It's a new resort site!
What makes you think Fentali will not erupt?
Hey Tim question for ya. If an earthquake triggered a tsunami in an already known big wave area where champaignship surfers surf would the waves in those area's be amplified or would the earthquake triggered tsunami be barely noticeable in those already big wave area's? Your video of the coast of South America made me think of that.
How long will it take to fill up the Kiluwea crater? Will the people outside have time to runaway?
At the current rate that could take decades. The current level of the lava is roughly 150 meters from the 2018 rim of the caldera. That means it would take decades to fill just to that level. And that's taking into account that not ever eruption taking place within the caldera.
Even if every eruption was within the caldera, it would take years at minimum for it to increase by the 150 meters to the 2018 rim level. Even then it would take years to completely fill the rest of the caldera to the observation post level.
In addition to what the other person had to say, if lava did eventually overflow the caldera rim, there would be plenty of time for people to prepare beforehand, and plenty of time after before the flows reached any significant number of structures, if they did at all.
@@sigisoltau6073 Thank you. It is difficult to understand the scale from the pictures alone. I live in UK so will never get to see it in person.
@@Razgriz__1 Thank you. It is difficult to understand the scale from the pictures alone. I live in UK so will never get to see it in person
@@Cider4144 If you are interested there are a ton of images available online from USGS and elsewhere.
If you've ever seen a picture of Kilauea's summit prior to 2018, you'll remember that there was a smaller depression (called Halema'uma'u) inside a much wider broad caldera. The 2018 events led to the collapse and widening of that smaller depression, but it's still only a fraction of the size of the larger caldera, which is miles across.
Since eruptions at the summit resumed in 2020, the smaller collapse structure has been filling up again, but as the previous poster stated, it's still a long way from the top even of that -- and it's big -- let alone from the top of the wider caldera. So in short, we're not going to see an overtopping of Kilauea's caldera ever with the kind of small scale summit eruptions that are typical there.
Ethiopia volcano might erupt soon big or small
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Fuego is a volcano that is really, incredibly powerful in its ability 😅
Famous last words.... there won't be an eruption.
Anyone else notice that many of these EQ;s are not in the USGS EQ site.
The USGS earthquake catalog is from the global seismic network, and usually contains only earthquakes larger than magnitude 4.5 for remote areas. There may be a local network that can detect smaller earthquakes.
@@ericfielding2540 I hear you yet my arguement is that one would expect eq departments to share info, esp when the activity is out of the ordinary. Secondly, you can set usgs to report all eq's regardless of size, which i have where even the .5mag eq's in nevada are showing up, while a series of 4+ in Africa are not....
In a tech world where data is king......a major network like usgs should be doing better than this. It leaves it open for conspiracy debate...
Where are all the comments?
Erupting soon.....
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@@petert3355like that one😂
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@@NRDavis-wl8vnReally? Evidence for that?
Coincidentally, I had a Stromboli for lunch today.
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So how many feet until Kilauea lava spills over the crater?
Hundreds
@BlackCeII I was guessing. It's almost like it's pancaking with lava eruptions, then getting weight down in a slow cycling of sorts. Eruption sink erupt sink erupt sink until the lava volumes supercedes solidifications.
@@dlane5292 I don't think it's cycling in that sense it's just a really big hole that the 2018 collapse left behind, and it will take a long time to fill it back up.
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Where is all the bad and good comments 😢😊
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Are all of these volcanoes and big waves related? Should we be looking for something more?
If you are referring to the tsunami in Peru that was a localized event which has no relationship with the activity in Hawaii. The 7.3 off the coast of the states was a separate system & even though it is where San Andreas & cascadia meet it did not cause both fault systems to fracture. One thing to be concerned about is the global sea level has increased by 6.5 inches since 1950. That additional mass puts more pressure on underwater and costal volcanoes. This is likely to cause more volcanic activity. As a bonus the eruptions will last longer and be more powerful.
Yeah, remember, you cannot do anything TH-camrs can do.
"3p.m., in the afternoon" is why you need an editor.
This is a BOT voice. Do you talk like this, really? WTF? What is wrong with you?
He's autistic and very human and the better question is whats wrong in your life Sam?
Nothing is wrong with him. Do you make a habit of saying things like this to people?
I'm gonna crowd source funding for a voice coach which will teach yaa how not to speak through the nasal passages.
He explained his voice on a colab with Shawn Willsey. Please think about other people’s potential conditions before being hasty in judgment. Let’s hope you or your kin never suffer any defects or health problems ❤
@susandavidson1691 No, and I don't care what reason and/or excuse was given.
@@Eidolon1andOnly You just a horrible person with a tiny mind then.
@@Eidolon1andOnlyawww what a self important cwwybaby do you need a wammbulance?
What the ***'*! Do not DARE do anything so patronising and insulting, learn some basic information about autism and other issues that can affect speech instead. By the way, Tim/GH contributes a great deal more to the Internet than you ever will, and part of that is precisely by not being afraid to run the gauntlet of commenters like you by posting in his real voice and not using any AI etc.
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