Good grief! Must've been a sight and a half.

My mother was a junior in Tacoma at the time as well! I don’t suppose you went to Foss?

Was there a sound?

@@Tehownilator A soft “ Boom “ woke me up that morning,…… thinking nothing of it I went back to sleep only to wake up a few hours later to literal inches of ash and small pumice stones already on the ground. It rained ash for several hours after until Centralia and Chehalis looked like the surface of the moon.

Fake -- it's all CGI. Just kidding =)

Impressive. Most impressive.

Anak Krakatoa (Krakatoa's child)

​@@dedurocortorum365 son

@@Iamnotradit Yes, its son

I like the dirt chucks flying out in slow mo

so cool watching the rocks fly into the water

@@scubascrubs I'm always impressed how movement scales witht size. I mean a large explosion can never be as fast as a small one relative to it's size. If a huge asteroid impacts earth the initial explosion might take several minutes up to hours whilst a small explosions take a few seconds

@@rgerber Its less about size and more about distance. The farther away an object is, the slower it will appear to move, like looking up at jet airplanes that are traveling at 400-500mph but dont look to be moving very fast at all. It is very weird and fascinating.

Pompei ;)

Thats where the gods came from.

The scientist David Johnston who worked for USGS was on a ridge about 4 miles from Mt St Helens doing readings with instruments. When the mountain start to go, he got on his radio to the USGS office in Vancouver and shouted "Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it." He was never heard from again. It is estimated that the lateral blast that blew out the north face of the mountain was traveling between 200-300 MPH and took less than a minute to reach him. When it hit him, his body spontaneously disintegrated.

@@davidlong3219 he had the foresight to secure the photos and stuff that he took, so that when they found his body at least we got some cool photos out of it

Basically, Pompeii 🥲

I feel a similar way about the godzilla movies!

I have actually climbed Mt. Stromboli, Vesuvius and Mt. Etna in Italy. My heritage from my dad’s side comes from Sardinia. So, when I visit Italy it’s easy to just go climb away. Others I have visited are Mt. Fuji and Sakurajima in Japan, Pinatubo in the Philippine, Mt. Saint Helens, Redoubt, Mt. Kilauea, Hawai’i volcanoes national park in USA, White Island in New Zealand, Eyjafjallajokull and Thingvellir in Iceland, Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania Africa and Mt. Krakatoa in Indonesia and Mt. Teide in the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa to name a few. Sometimes I wished that I would have study

Nah its too hot irl

@@lebronjames5601 lies

Some might say there hot lol

I know I'm a little late here, but he has included Vulcan de Fuego in several of his videos prior. You should check them out. They're beautiful.

It's not in the US is it?

Lava is certainly eye-catching, and can be extremely destructive, but of all the things a volcano can throw (sometimes literally!) at people it is probably the least lethal. Even when spewing straight from it's vent, and yellow hot, lava doesn't move fast enough to overwhelm people. In fact, I can think of only one eruption in the last 100 years where a lava flow was speedy enough to catch and kill people. It's safe to say that things like pyroclastic flows, volcanic mudflows, and even something as simple as dips in the ground filled with volcano produced carbon dioxide have killed more people than lava flows have.

I highly agree, it was so well done I've watched it a few times and its something that puts you in awe but also showing the degree of a situation like this.

Even more than that! :))

Just think the actually powerful ones havnt gone off for hundreds of thousands of years and are many times bigger

They're basically the reason any land mass exists, it's crazy.

I agree. I am more afraid of a Vesuvio eruption compared to Etna or Stromboli since historically Vesuvio eruptions have caused mass deaths. However, i would still rank Etna above Stromboli. Etna is studied much more rigorously due to its activity to ensure safety for tourists and populations surrounding in Catania. Because of this rigorous study and estimations of when it will erupt, many lives have been saved over time. Even though Etna is at a higher elevation and more distant from towns and cities in Catania, its eruptions have caused massive damage to peoples lives from the ash as far west as Agrigento where my family comes from. Stromboli is a younger volcano with perhaps more unpredictable eruptions but the island is only inhabited by 600-800 people. Because stromboli is more unpredictable one could say its more dangerous than Etna, but I think the fact that Etna is in a more densely populated region and visited by more tourists out of convenience it has to be regarded as more dangerous to the lives of people. INGV of Catania makes Etna less dangerous. They also study stromboli but more money is invested in Etna has its more visited. In fact, i would rank Monte Pilato in Lipari as being more dangerous and something I fear more than both stromboli and Etna. I think Sicily's most dangerous volcano is Monte Pilato. Like Vesuvio, Pilato has been dormant for centuries but its still active and not completely asleep. The next eruption could wipe out the entire island of Lipari

He has included Mount Etna in several of his videos prior. You should check them out.

tourism + really active volcano = tradgedy

I'm from Auckland. I remembered how shocked New Zealanders were when they heard the news. The whole town of Whakatane is mourning (Whakatane is the “Gateway to White Island".

Still the vulcanologists had warned about the unrest of the volcano some weeks before the eruption. One lucky thing is that it wasn't magmatic but phreotic "steam explosion".

@@mikkolaine4883 If I recall the issue was the cruiseline not fully passing on the elevated risk from volcanologists, rather, the generic "this volcano is considered active" risk as usual

I’m from Matamata. I remember feeling totally shocked as things unfolded. It was a horrible disaster for our whole country

Pa

Pyroclastic flows can travel at hundreds of miles an hour, explosive eruptions on stratovolcanoes are much more like a nuclear blast than the slow moving lava flows of the Hawaiian volcanoes.

Yea and the fact he called the audio "dodgy" cracked me up. The volume of a such an explosion is outside what is survivable by a human, and the sound is out of our hearing spectrum. The microphone did a good job that day.

Whoa!! That's cool thank you!

That is pretty cool actually, good catch thanks. Also cool is how long it takes to hear the sound of it popping.

Haha, oops I commented before they explained it took 13 seconds to hear it.

I was a junior in high school when I was at home with my mom watching the news breaking. My mom's name was HELEN, and to me, she was a saint ! Unfortunately, my family lost our St. Helen just two months ago ! 😇😢😰😭

@@johnlukasik8045 I am so sorry for your loss. I lost my mother 22 years ago and it still gets me sometimes when I think that she is not here. But I know I will see her again in the New World.

@@kwiknkleen I believe the same, and Thank You ! 🥰🥰🥰

I stood in my yard in Portland and watched it. My parents had us cleaning ash off the roof and gutters for two weeks.

@Eperogi Limousine There were multiple eruptions. #2 and 3 dumped on Portland.

Yep, I was at the beach on the east coast and heard the booms, wondered what it was

I didn't hear it, but my sister was down on the beach a few hours after the eruption and the waves were unusually high

Thank you!! Means a lot:)

You're not wrong all the volcanoes are really interesting to me they make shocked

Maybe in a few hundred years they'll find Harry Truman and his cat.

Grimsvotn seems ready to go too

@@ryanwatterson4038 Yeah there are 5 volcanoes ready to rumble at the moment.

Walter mitty lived through it

anak krakatoa 2018 was nowhere near a VEI 5; 1883 krakatoa was a definite 6

Bros turned into geiger counter💀💀💀

I feel I don't wanna live that Indonesia anymore. I will change my Nationality now

Thank God it won't happen in anyone's lifetime that is watching this.

Well anyone within about 50 miles in the first hour or so, then anyone downstream of the major rivers as the lahars travel downstream in the hours and days following, climatic effects are harder to predict. Assuming it blows as a VEI 8+. Given the unpredictable nature of volcanoes it could have smaller eruptions, or no eruptions at all.

and tobaa too

@@ImpendingJoker there's been an update on that, scientists have discovered that Yellowstone is waking up sooner than expected

I think not. Yellowstone may be a caldera. But most likely it will erupt at the weakest spot in the crust. Wich is not the whole caldera. Pretty disappointing. But hey, people like it too much to be afraid of anything. So we keep on fantasizing about Yellowstone destroying the whole Earth. 😂

@@steverockwell5074 I Agree. Lol.

Awesome story!

@@jaywade3242 It’s a true story too. My dad calls my Grandma Mom.

It actually would warm the planet. The water vapor acts as insulation trapping heat and light within the atmosphere. Therefore keeping the planet warmer in the winter season. More storms and precipitation will be likely.

Mt St Helens ash cloud went all the way around the world

Yeah

Dude keep it up and also make sure to hit that like button and turn on the notification bell for insane video s

Dad was in school in the Tri-Cities at the time - Ill have to ask him if he heard the boom from there, but I remember him talking about seeing it and the ash snow. Yea, WA is ran by 2 counties the rest of the state doesn't matter compared to those 2 counties in the sound, it sucks.

Some got feet ! not inches" imagine 2 or 3 feet . Death follows closely behind .

@@RobertSmith-oc5nf whats scary about ash, breathing it in without a mask is like mixing cement in your lungs. Its a horrifying way to go.

It or Hawaii kilawaya

I hate them ! They are the first step into satins house ! Burn baby burn !

destructive indeed but above all constructive. Without volcanoes no oxygen , no soil , no fertility , no life

I know no one that doesn't know what caught on camera means . Is this a joke?

​@RobertSmith-oc5nf most vids that say natural disasters "caught on camera" doesn't actually show any footage it shows stock footage of random stuff that most times doesn't depict what they are talking about and someone just tells a story over the pictures they show

I'm surprised too. I was there and witnessed the first eruption from Clark Air base.

I kept waiting to see that one

I moved to the P.I. in 1991, just after Pinatubo erupted. The ash was everywhere and lahar flows were so scary!

I've scalded myself very bad in my life. It IS very painful! Being scalded/burned alive is one of my worst fears!

Pretty sure her name is Coral, I follow her on insta

Only financially? I wonder what your priorities...

No you don't. You are virtue signalling. You are clearly telling us about yourself.

@@cadcncengineeringfabricati3497 Shouldn't you be under a bridge somewhere?

CAD CNC Engineering & Fabrication, who made you judge?🤨

@@neverlearnitall English teacher. Sentence Diagram: Subject: "I" Rockey is the subject of the sentence. Rocky is telling us about herself. Verb: "feel" Rockey is telling us how she feels. WHY is Rockey telling us this? To help out? or...... to let us know that she is a social media hero?

@@cadcncengineeringfabricati3497 weird asf

Ah, yeaaahhh!

I don't think hiking on an active volcano is a good idea.

@Eperogi Limousine Thats what the documentary i saw said 🤷‍♀

Why was Krakatoa not No.1?

Probably because there was no footage. Video cameras were not around in 1883.

What do you mean? It's at #1!!!

@@cathyvickers9063 never knew it was going to be number 1.. wasn’t meant to be silly. I was glad it was 🙂✌️

Almost didn’t include it since we have covered it at least 5 times now but it had to make the cut!

@@Underworld5s I would’ve included the 1944 eruption of Vesuvius

@@Underworld5s That's what I was thinking. But I guess it's VEI ranking meant that it had to be included.

My dad told me about the eruption of Mount St. Helens. He lived in England at the time and said that the ashes had made it there.