Obviously, we're primed to pay attention to the ones that threaten populated areas or are extremely large, but volcanoes erupt every single day.And right now around the world, there are about 45 volcanoes erupting at this very moment.
Till today as I'm here if I pick the phone and say to my mom, "Go to the U.S. Embassy, they will give you your visa, I need you in San Francisco" she drops everything and comes. erupt . So we've started that conversation.
disperses uh from pillow fights to silent discos to a throng of amateur mes at Grand Cent station flash mobs have erupted into our culture will they disperse as quickly as they arrived or will they continue to evolve what role will the internet have in this sort ofviral culture and other impact that it might have uh these are sort of some questions that Mr wayk will discuss with
He is just absolutely blown away by the fact that there's a volcano erupting less than two miles from us, and we're just going about business, which it erupted every 30 minutes. You got kind of used to it, and these were smaller eruptions.
And I'll just sort of tease how that would've killed things. These eruptions also injected incredible amounts of carbon dioxide into the air and caused extreme global warming, ocean acidification, and marine anoxia. So that should sound kind of scary, and it is, and I'll get back to that.
moment was captured by Rob Brown of Mike Parsons on what is regarded as the biggest wave ever ridden ever documented. Usually you don't see this wave pulled all the way back. White water eruption is absolutely gigantic. And here's the shot of Twiggy that's on the cover. And Greg and Twig were basically describing a sensation a condition where they were so amped on adrenaline that their bodies were essentially overdosing every single time they'd
is the way that they learn. So you, you can -- and you can, as it were, get people to admit to errors that they might otherwise conceal. big eruptions in the coming century between people, sort of, investment in virtual property, which they actually have no ownership rights over,
the most recent big global warming spike in Earth history before today. And it was caused by volcanoes. That's what often caused global warming during the long span of Earth history. In fact, as the volcanoes that still erupt in Iceland today, that started to erupt back then, there are much more powerful back then. There was a lot more lava back then, and all that lava burning through the Earth as the North Atlantic Ocean opens up, lava that actually scoured a whole lot of Scotland, even the field sites. I have sites on the Isle of Sky where they're Jurassic age dinosaurs,
You know, so the hobbits have somewhere to chuck that ring. Composite volcanoes erupt with remarkable variety, sometimes unleashing torrents of lava, other times sending up volcanic plumes of tephra that fall back to Earth. These combinations of eruptions build up the composite volcano's iconic steep flanks.
And the volumes that will become oceans and mountains and bathtubs full of splishy splashy toddlers. The light that will erupt in the east each morning and flood through the kitchen window, the future debates over what to call Pluto, the weight of autumn, and the promise of spring.
an infectious disease. So he created a network of violence interrupters, people that could be called in to mediate instances where violence might erupt or might occur. And in many neighborhoods, where you don't necessarily feel comfortable calling in your local police force, calling in this trusted intermediary who
wife only her in America she alone will be my wife I sipped my whiskey again and hold cheese owes hand waiting for the room to erupt in Cheers perhaps I have failed to make my position clear tell no lies in my house Samuel says there is no shame in admitting to having another wife I have only one wife because I cannot afford to have more you white man
Magma then breaks the surface and becomes lava, the name we give to molten rock when it’s above ground. Et voilà: an eruption. Not all eruptions are equal, though.
Et voilà: an eruption. Not all eruptions are equal, though. Some are huge and explosive, while others look more like a cool feature at a water park.
Pressure builds until— blam-o! — you get an explosion. And those eruptions from different types of lava create different shapes of volcanoes, too. Like, the runniest lavas often create shield volcanoes, which are big, low, and flat.
Composite volcanoes erupt with remarkable variety, sometimes unleashing torrents of lava, other times sending up volcanic plumes of tephra that fall back to Earth. These combinations of eruptions build up the composite volcano's iconic steep flanks. When lava is extra sticky, it can’t “flow” away from the vent.
For magma to burst from the surface, conditions have to be just right. Many volcanic eruptions happen at plate boundaries: places where the tectonic plates that make up Earth’s outermost layer squish together or spread apart. Like, lots of volcanoes form at subduction zones, where two tectonic plates converge.
Geologists estimate that more than 70 percent of the world’s volcanoes are hidden under the sea at mid-ocean ridges: divergent plate boundaries where two oceanic plates are pulling apart. Geologists finally witnessed an eruption at a mid-ocean ridge for the first time in 2025. Just, so cool! Sometimes volcanoes can form in places called hotspots, where a big plume of super-hot mantle rock rises up underneath the crust, causing rock to melt and erupt at the surface.
Like, some geologists use “active” to refer to volcanoes that are erupting right now, and others use it to mean any volcano that’s erupted in the last 11,000 years or so. Dormant volcanoes aren’t erupting right now but might in the future. And extinct volcanoes were active once, but aren’t expected to erupt ever again— even though they can surprise us once in a while.
And the heat of volcanic systems can be tapped for geothermal energy, which we’ll get more into in a later episode. But some eruptions can cause serious destruction. Thick volcanic ash can blanket crops, collapse structures, and suffocate people and animals.
Then, kimberlite eruptions can blast them to the surface. Most kimberlite eruptions happened between 250 and 50 million years ago. And their diamonds started forming long before the blasts, up to 3 billion years ago.
Like, Dr. Kate Kiseeva has examined garnet inclusions in diamonds using advanced scientific tools to get more information about the composition of the deep mantle. The last kimberlite eruption was 13 million years ago, and we don’t know if another will ever happen again. So while diamonds continue to grow deep underground, we're left to mine the ones that ancient eruptions have already lofted into Earth's crust.
A city which receives the ashes of active volcanoes. I’ve survived eruptions and earthquakes, and that’s why I like to say my writing cardiac .” In other words, the threatening energy — the life force of Ojeda’s horror writing — is inspired by the natural landscape.
And then he wins. And everybody erupts . And it was like, this is the power of sport. Here we are. This guy is like across the street in the swimming hall.
This is El Reventador volcano in Ecuador, and its name in Spanish means "the eruptor." As you can see, it was happy to oblige with an eruption for this shot. Now, this volcano, when I worked there, was erupting about every 30 minutes.
Now, this volcano, when I worked there, was erupting about every 30 minutes. So not all eruptions are catastrophic and devastating. Obviously, we're primed to pay attention to the ones that threaten populated areas or are extremely large, but volcanoes
So if you were to cut into a cliff face, you would see different layers of rock that have formed over time. So maybe a volcano erupted over a beach and that turned into sandstone and granite. I'm not a geologist.
The spontaneous eruption of the entire audience in the middle of something that wasn't like a scream or a yell-- it was, like, celebratory.
The term terrorism has erupted , because there has been some incidents in time that some protests-- where there, you know, there may be violence
So the eruption of flash disorients subject and photographer alike.
Basically, all the brown stuff you see on that map is basalt lava from these giant eruptions 252 million years ago. And they erupted through one of the world's biggest coal basins. They would have burned through tons of coal, oil, and natural gas, and injected as much as 40,000 gigatons of carbon dioxide into the air.
These are gigantic piles of lava that is dated to right around the time of the dinosaur extinction. Enough lava erupted at this time that it would have covered the lower 48 states 600 feet deep in lava. So we talk about Yellowstone being the most dangerous volcano today.
So we talk about Yellowstone being the most dangerous volcano today. If Yellowstone erupted , it would be devastating for agriculture and civilization, but it would cover a few states in a few inches of ash. This would have covered the whole lower 48 in 600 feet of lava.
But interestingly, as teams from Princeton, and UC Berkeley, and others have gone to date the eruptions, it just gets closer. The most eruptive part of the Deccan Traps in India gets closer and closer to the extinction boundary. So it's this really strange coincidence.
The violence had erupted over the breakfast table and continued on until my parents realized that it was time for church.
suppression the Buddha erupts back into Indian history in the 20th century through the imaginative struggles of
Another fad erupts in Europe and also here.
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And we reproduced eruption of this volcano.
And everyone else erupts in uproarious laughter.
the Thera eruption? Right.
next one erupted to get exact geo-coordinates, like cross streets of where the callers were coming from.
by the eruption of Vesuvius.
North Pole to the South Pole. And it was a land mass that was ruled by a lot of early relatives and cousins and ancestors of us distant mammal ancestors. But then, in what is now Siberia, these enormous volcanoes started to erupt about 250 million years ago. And these are not volcanoes like those that we know today. It's hard to even envision what these were like. These weren't the Hawaiian volcanoes or Mount Pinatubo blowing its top one day. No, no, no, these were enormous fissures in the Earth. It's like the Earth was slashed with a giant machete
But importantly, it's spread across many smaller underground pockets. It’s not linked up enough to erupt in one big boom. So, you have geologists’ blessing— you can take a Yellowstone supereruption off your Things to Worry About list.
And the gravel would just erupt .
I think that when we saw Herriman erupt with those comics during the Jack Johnson/Jim Jeffries
And so the desert would just erupt with artillery shells hitting.
one degree of temperature will make them erupt some some volcanoes only erupt during the spring I mean these things
But my skin started to erupt because you know birth control pills are doing all kinds of crazy things to our bodies. And so anyway, that was happening to me.