Earth's Largest Caldera; 150 Kilometers Wide

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Жыл бұрын

Calderas often form during the largest explosive or effusive eruptions. So, what is Earth's largest caldera? The answer is now Yellowstone, Taupo, or even Toba. Rather, a little known 93 mile or 150 kilometer wide caldera exists off the eastern coast of the Philippines; the Apolaki Caldera. Luckily, the Apolaki caldera is long extinct and will never erupt again. #volcano #philippines #geology #caldera #shorts #short
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@MeargleSchmeargle
@MeargleSchmeargle Жыл бұрын
I would love to see you do some videos on Large Igneous Provinces like the Siberian Traps. They represent some of the most extreme volcanism in our planet's history.
@TheNicStar88
@TheNicStar88 Жыл бұрын
He did a video on the siberian traps
@MeargleSchmeargle
@MeargleSchmeargle Жыл бұрын
@@TheNicStar88 What about others, like the Deccan Traps?
@SovereignTroll
@SovereignTroll Жыл бұрын
Australia and it's history of super mega-super volcanos and terrifying chevrons from 150 meter tsunamis runners-up. Percy built on devestation.
@buning_sensations5437
@buning_sensations5437 Жыл бұрын
Wondering how big the tsunami was when the colasped off the Philippines.
@BlackCeII
@BlackCeII Жыл бұрын
I am studying volcanology extensively, and I've never heard such a perfect concise explanation of a Caldera that is intuitive as you just presented. Well done. I love and like every one of your videos
@kwgm8578
@kwgm8578 Жыл бұрын
Ah, but Crater Lake, Oregon might be the most beautiful.
@leannaselander9289
@leannaselander9289 Жыл бұрын
Agree totally. While doing a travel job in Western Oregon, I would spend weekends just walking around the Crater Lake Park.
@kwgm8578
@kwgm8578 Жыл бұрын
@@leannaselander9289 Isn't it? I took a few Kodachrome photos up there, meaning a high resolution slide in the 1970's. It was a perfect evening for it, with the Sun setting in the west on a warm September evening, before the light turns bluer. I made a few 12 x 9 prints at a real color photo lab, no Fotomat this time, and had one framed in California barn wood, popular in the early 1980's, and it was beautiful. That was my Bicentennial year trip around the Rockies, from LA westward to the Grand Canyon, through the Navajo Nation to Gallup, then north up highway 666 (now renamed to 491 to appease the fundamentalist Christian cults.) We camped along the way, and spent time in both the New Mexican and central Coloradan wilderness. By the fifth day we were ready for a shower at a Motel 6, when it cost $8 a night. Then north into Wyoming, west on I-80 in Laramie to Rock Springs where we headed north to Yellowstone. You need at least 3 or 4 nights to get a feel for that great National Park, and that was when the geysers and fumaroles were points of fascination and wonder, not the site of the North American doomsday spot of an imminent destruction of civilization as we know it via a super volcano, its 500 mph lahars and pyroclastic flows, and being buried alive in a quarter-milr ash fall east of the caldera. How I hate the sensationalism of American "reality" television's worse-case scenarios. Well it was a memoral road trip lasting 2 months until we got back to northern California. Crater Lake was a high point of that trip, no pun intended, as were so many other wonders of the North American West. I later moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where I completed a BS and MS degree, was married, fathered three sons, and built a career. That 12 x 10 was on my wall for many years until it faded from sun exposure. The slides are around somewhere in the basement, which has become a home organizer's worst nightmare If the box of slides does appear, I'll have them scaned and printed. It's a beautiful place.
@trentgay3437
@trentgay3437 Жыл бұрын
It definitely is the most beautiful pictures don't really do it justice.
@HONGKELDONGKEL1888
@HONGKELDONGKEL1888 5 ай бұрын
Could argue that Taal caldera could give Giiwas a run for her money, plus Taal is far more active.
@kwgm8578
@kwgm8578 5 ай бұрын
@@HONGKELDONGKEL1888 I'll have to take your word for it, friend. I've never been to Taal. 👍🏻 Thanks for your insight.
@andrewvillafuerte5590
@andrewvillafuerte5590 Жыл бұрын
Apolaki in the Filipino language means "Big/Giant Lord"
@titaniauranus
@titaniauranus 11 ай бұрын
I'm a Filipino and I have some information Apo - The largest mountain in the Philippines Laki - Big
@andrewvillafuerte5590
@andrewvillafuerte5590 11 ай бұрын
@@titaniauranus you are also correct. But in this context, Apo means a wise, old man or someone with a higher status.
@JPaterson8942
@JPaterson8942 Жыл бұрын
I'm suddenly curious about how a caldera collapse would look on a seismograph.
@NickyVickyWaterfally
@NickyVickyWaterfally Жыл бұрын
Pinatubo was closely monitored, but the seismographs installed near the volcano were all destroyed by pyroclastic flows so they don't know exactly when caldera collapse happened.
@commonconservative7551
@commonconservative7551 Жыл бұрын
i wonder what is under the Euphrates
@dojoswitzer
@dojoswitzer Жыл бұрын
Would such a large collapsing be sudden or incremental? If sudden, then over what time? What would be the speculated size of the resulting tsunami?
@GearGuardianGaming
@GearGuardianGaming Жыл бұрын
Imagine the tsunami that made if it all collapsed at once...yikes
@Miguel92398
@Miguel92398 Жыл бұрын
The funny thing about the Apolaki Caldera is that there is a very tall and thin point that's higher than the rim of the caldera which is the Benham Rise. Imagine the sheer height of the thing if it popped up the surface.
@TheRandom_Channel_idk
@TheRandom_Channel_idk Жыл бұрын
I knew you would do a video on this!
@TheRandom_Channel_idk
@TheRandom_Channel_idk Жыл бұрын
Also this was a really recent discovery, as it was discovered in 2019.
@zam6877
@zam6877 Жыл бұрын
This is so fascinating Thank you 😊
@countryhumansPhilippines-ze4pz
@countryhumansPhilippines-ze4pz 5 ай бұрын
What app are you using🤔
@muhammadikhwannurrosyidin8371
@muhammadikhwannurrosyidin8371 Ай бұрын
The newest caldera is the large Hunga Tonga-Hunga Huapai eruption caldera
@suzettebavier4412
@suzettebavier4412 Жыл бұрын
Wo!!! I must send this to Doc
@scratchingcatclaw
@scratchingcatclaw 10 ай бұрын
Can't imagine the size of the eruption that birthed the existence of this caldera
@nkronert
@nkronert Жыл бұрын
I always wonder how it could happen that a magma chamber gets "emptied" like that. I would think you'd need over-pressure to push out the lava elsewhere. Or an opening much lower than the top of the magma chamber so the molten material just flows out under gravity. What fills the void? Volcanic gases? Or is it that the rock above the still full chamber becomes unstable and collapses, in the process "squirting" out an eruption elsewhere?
@richeese2705
@richeese2705 Жыл бұрын
the over-lying rock fills the empty space, if a VEi 6-8 eruption occurs most likely a huge amount of lava and rock gets ejected oonto the surface leaving the magma chamber partially empty until thew weight of the crust finally gives in
@nkronert
@nkronert Жыл бұрын
@@richeese2705 But what is in the part of the magma chamber that is empty before the whole thing collapses? Volcanic gases? I mean, I don't imagine air rushing in to fill the void.
@richeese2705
@richeese2705 Жыл бұрын
@@nkronert mostl ikely volcanic gasses but once the volcano erupts, the over lying rock immediately fills in the empty magma chamber, so its a matter of seconds
@jeanneganrude8549
@jeanneganrude8549 Жыл бұрын
Does anyone else find that voice slightly hypnotic?
@carsonboardman7073
@carsonboardman7073 Жыл бұрын
Number 15. Burger King foot lettuce
@Country_humans_philippines
@Country_humans_philippines 8 ай бұрын
how do you even make a size of the caldera
@Salute503
@Salute503 11 ай бұрын
Mount saint helens never collapsed into a calerera i heard
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Жыл бұрын
Apolaki deserves its name.
@titaniauranus
@titaniauranus 11 ай бұрын
I'm a Filipino myself and I have something to tell to most people Apo - Largest Mountain in the Philippines Laki - Big
@b3astlyify
@b3astlyify 5 ай бұрын
"Onto the yeouuucean floor"
@tonysherwood9619
@tonysherwood9619 22 күн бұрын
I thought it was in the arctic ocean!
@Growgreen
@Growgreen 8 ай бұрын
Apparently the apologies caldera is currently inactive so it might erupt again and if it does it will cause the tectonic plate with the Mariana Trench ( I don’t know the name of it so) it will break it apart causing so many new islands and big islands in the philippines
@Kanabtaxi
@Kanabtaxi Жыл бұрын
You should do a video on the Wah Wah Caldera in Utah. It’s magma chamber is 30 times larger than the one under Yellowstone.
@MeargleSchmeargle
@MeargleSchmeargle Жыл бұрын
He already did, actually.
@justinebautista1383
@justinebautista1383 Жыл бұрын
He already was and the Wah Wah Springs is long extinct
@GearGuardianGaming
@GearGuardianGaming Жыл бұрын
Heres a link to it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qr11nb2Vl6mUin0.html
@GoldFeather-li8zm
@GoldFeather-li8zm Жыл бұрын
The Yellowstone is 400 miles. 30 × that . How bout all earth is a volcano and caller's are little zits poping.
@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache
@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache Жыл бұрын
@@GoldFeather-li8zm caller's?
@Wongwanchungwongjumbo
@Wongwanchungwongjumbo 9 ай бұрын
The Submarine Caldera of Indonesia 🇮🇩 Active Volcano 🌋 Mount Krakatoa which Exploded and sank into the Sunda Strauts in 1883 explosion Eruption.
@vangu2918
@vangu2918 Жыл бұрын
The Earth just be doing stuff.😩
@Itsjustme-Justme
@Itsjustme-Justme 7 ай бұрын
That thing must have created one hell of a tsunami
@jhondoe4526
@jhondoe4526 Жыл бұрын
Toba lake is whole Caldera 😰, now IM scared
@Realosed
@Realosed Жыл бұрын
Benham rise
@Danshi-Likes-BREAD
@Danshi-Likes-BREAD 5 ай бұрын
Well im proud to be a Filipino
@JoeyFrezza-zr7ek
@JoeyFrezza-zr7ek 4 ай бұрын
It's about to go off fish are tripping in the Philippines.
@UNITED870
@UNITED870 4 ай бұрын
The largest calders is Apolaki
@b3astlyify
@b3astlyify 5 ай бұрын
cAHlderAAH
@bienjenidocalipes2465
@bienjenidocalipes2465 11 ай бұрын
How About the Laguna Caldera
@keanemorrissey5478
@keanemorrissey5478 Жыл бұрын
I thought it was Warzone
@PrincessTS01
@PrincessTS01 Жыл бұрын
the whole snake river plane is multiple former calderas of the Yellowstone hotspot...
@ayakinz1440
@ayakinz1440 Жыл бұрын
Snake river plain was mostly formed via melting of the base lithosphere by Yellowstone hot spot.
@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache
@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache Жыл бұрын
calderaS being the key word here. Yes it's huge area, but it's not a single caldera, it's a whole group of them, this is a one to many comparison, obviously the many would be larger than the one. If you're going to count a group of calderas as a single caldera then the largest caldera would actually be the Pacific Ring of Fire. Individually, the yellowstone calderas are smaller than the single Apolaki caldera.
@10-_._Money_.-_10
@10-_._Money_.-_10 4 ай бұрын
*Yellowstone:*
@aron1332
@aron1332 3 ай бұрын
This is way larger than Yellowstone
@patricklynuelbullo7309
@patricklynuelbullo7309 3 ай бұрын
Yay Philippines 🇵🇭😂
@montepython6272
@montepython6272 Жыл бұрын
"thus"
@90enemies
@90enemies Жыл бұрын
Toba might not be the biggest, but unlike Apolaki. The Toba supervolcano is still Active.
@jakealter5504
@jakealter5504 2 ай бұрын
And it’s still one of the largest calderas
@lilith5656
@lilith5656 16 күн бұрын
Apolaki not supervulcano
@j.f.fisher5318
@j.f.fisher5318 Жыл бұрын
Wow, that's huge. Though with bassalt maybe not as scary as Toba. Still.
@JudyMenzel7
@JudyMenzel7 Жыл бұрын
🤗👍
@Country_humans_philippines
@Country_humans_philippines 8 ай бұрын
i'm confused
@grassnothing1631
@grassnothing1631 Жыл бұрын
Can someone tell me the smallest caldera? sorry for bad english
@b3astlyify
@b3astlyify 5 ай бұрын
God you know this dude like gets high on hearing himself 😂🤦🏻‍♂️
@b3astlyify
@b3astlyify 5 ай бұрын
This mfr sounds like he sniffs his farts
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