Anatomy of Disaster - Season 1 Episode 4 - Volcano

[@allandavis8201]

This series of documentaries are excellent, the science and knowledge behind each type of disaster is clear and easy to understand for those of us who didn’t pay enough attention at school, thanks for sharing them with us all, they also serve to show that Mother Nature has the winning hand in a game of Texas hold-em every time, and that we, as a race, are not helping calm her down, the amount of pollutants we push into the atmosphere, the natural resources we dig out or pump out of the ground, and he wholesale destruction of our ecosystem have surly had an effect on our planet and how it behaves, personally I believe that one day our planet will fight back and it will be uninhabitable for humans, that’s if we don’t blow ourselves to pieces first. I am not an eco warrior or eco terrorist, just a realist, and being a father, grandfather, and great grandfather I want my descendants to see the beauty, majesty and awesome things that our home planet has, but they won’t if this generation fails to do what many previous generations should have done, LOOK AFTER OUR PLANET AND PRESERVE ITS RESOURCES. OK, Rant over,spleen vented and soapbox put away, thanks for reading my comment and if you agree please 👍 and if you don’t........DILLIGAF.

[@Christin5554]

very interesting video, thanks for sharing it.

[@BMG060981]

Primordial is a great way to describe it!! I was out walking the lave field in the dead of night, we were walking ocean cliffs to a ocean entry and away in the distance the glow from the lava lake on the peak of Kilauea. It’s what older islands looked like millions of years ago.

[@allenra530]

The lahar that ran down the White River on Raineir reached all the way to Tacoma and filled in part of the south end of Puget Sound. Part of the port facilities are built on the mud flow deposit. All of the towns and cities along the river valleys are at risk, not just Orting. But everyone who lives there will not think about it. Harry Truman was not the only person in denial in the State of Washington. Everyone who still lives there is in the risk zone.

[@christineaugustc465]

I really like this video. Ty to the producers n everyone involved.

[@shaydavis1365]

Thanks for uploading this.

[@jasmineluxemburg6200]

Volcanos are one of the most dramatic manifestations that we have a living planet as our home. The outer crust is what we know and experience, but it is a thin layer in places subject to sudden change. The soil from eruptions is very fertile, so people thrive in what the volcano gives.

[@TheMouseAvenger]

Unfortunately, during the part about the Nevada Del Ruiz eruption in Colombia, the documentary leaves out the story of poor Omayra Sanchez... :-(

[@Courdney]

This was surprisingly interesting

[@guytremblay1647]

the lesson to be llearned is this , '' if you are going to live on a volcanic place and since there is no one who doesn't know that eruptions are unpredictable no matter where that volcanoe may be or even if its been dormant for billions of years you ahve to accept the consequences of your choices if you lose everything because of one .'' When you go to stay on danger areas you are tempting nature and she allways wins no matter what .

[@guytremblay1647]

First Bud the planet is not a danger zone at all you creep othewise you wouldn,t have been ever born probably since your great or great -great or great-great-great grand father and mother would have probably got killed a long time agoalong with the rest of their relatives if it was the case . You need to recognise the areas with high or low risk you idiot if you build a house on the edge of a lake the chance that the house will rotten away with time will be greater than anything else dostrying it while building one on the coastal beach of of the atlantic or pacific or any other ocean is more likely that it will suffer a few shot s of damages over the years and that is if it avoids getting completly destroyed by a hurricane or tropical storm . You have Oklahoma where Tornados are common while all the other never get any much less but still you have big cities anf small towns there and people know that the area is a high risk one compared to the others who are very low . Its all about the choice you make ans the consequences are all your own doing ot the planet cause she does have places where a life with nothing bad is most likely to happen just like she has places where a bad one is most likely to happen to you in your lifetime and mebay a few times in it if you go live there . Now go join your mom and your sister in bed who are waiting to conceive your next brother and nephew with you

[@guytremblay1647]

you know what i love about people like you ? Its the fact that you think that you sound intelligent in you reasoning when actually only you think that its the case and the rest of all teh people see you as the greatest dummy in the world . go study your archeology and geography a little before making stupid comments and you will find out that its thru that no place on earth is actaually 100% safe from any casualties but there are people who study both the places of high and low risk at the same time as the potentiel damage those area may suffer if something is to occur .Why do you think that the gouverment wanted to avoid New orlean's reconstruction ? because they know that its a high risk area with high risk of casualty they did not forbide to ribuilt but the strong advise people not to and to move to safer areas with much lower risks since they admited thaat no matter what thechnology you use mother nature will allways eventually come up with something worse than what you could have expected . thats what happened to their levy and thats what will eventually happen to the new system they are building right now eventually . Even if they lower the risk of something like that happening again they still have a high risk high level of casualty if something does ever happen in the future .If people would have moved a bit more to the north their chances of living thru that kind of hell are far less greater and at one point unlikely to ever happen to them again

[@Soturi92]

guy tremblay you’re so illiterate I cannot even understand what you’re trying to argue about. Meanwhile, I can still type this with a broken hand just fine. Do better, no excuses.

[@TheBardicDruid]

@@guytremblay1647 All that just to prove you're dumber than a brick.

[@derekwall200]

at 10:04 that must have been painful to watch your home go up in flames

[@shaunastockton1407]

I totally agree.

[@josephd2653]

@@shaunastockton1407 Yeah, at least they had time to gut the house and evacuate... Some tornadoes that destroy houses can have been formed only seconds to minutes before impact. :(

[@guytremblay1647]

when you go live in a volcanic area its like you are asking for it specially if you choose the hawiian islands

[@jrgmmg5659]

"roythearcher 4 weeks ago (edited) (Also, the "20 thousand people" supposedly killed during the AD79 eruption of pompeii was in fact only around 2000 as most of the townsfolk had escaped before the pyroclastic flow hit.)" In tried finding a definite answer. One site I read agreed with the 2,000 total. "it was estimated that just over 13% of the total population of Pompeii died in the initial blast. A population of around 15,000 people and an estimated 2,000 died.." But another site said "There are no records of how many people lived in Pompeii, or how many were killed, but experts estimate that as many as 20,000 people lived in Pompeii and in its surrounding towns. Of those, between 10,000 and 16,000 perished.". Still another site said "It is estimated that about 16,000 people died in the eruption." So who really knows for certain? Doesn't really seem worth arguing about. It was a tragedy and a lot of people died a horrible death.

[@okboomer6201]

Muh Herculaneum!

[@jimmywrangles]

They had 2 days to leave and safety was only 10 miles away at Stabiae, 3 or 4 hours at walking pace, 5 if you're not being chased by an erupting volcano. My guess would be the lower end of your calculations. Romans were ancient not stupid.

[@jquest43]

It was 33,666 dead

[@guytremblay1647]

in Herculenum everyone wwas killed as a heat blast hit the town and boiled people almost instantly . The difference with pompeii is that the heat wave did not go their way on the first eruption but in Herculenum's direction so it gave them time to evacuate .

[@austinmichael406]

I watched Volcano and I know how to stop lava.

[@Dragon-dp6cc]

That's fiction dude

[@andrewlavey6992]

Wow!

[@Dave-id6sj]

Why can't I get Chef's voice singing hot lava out of my mind while watching this? Or Satan singing: Oh we're going to a hukilau A huki huki huki huki hukilau Oh we're going to a hukilau A huki huki huki huki hukilau Everybody loves a hukilau. _________________________________________________________________________________________ oh, baby, every time we kiss, hot lava Every time that we make love, that's lava, hot lava Lava so hot it makes me sweat, Lava so warm and red and wet, Mountain is rumbling, must find a safer place Soon the wrath of Pele, will fall upon your face Great nectar of the gods, spews rock from ????? makes the lava we know Ooh, baby, every time we kiss, hot lava Every time that we make love, there's lava, hot lava Lava so hot it makes me sweat, Lava so warm and red and wet Burning through the forest, red, red hot lava flows roles down the island body, and into the ocean below Ooh, baby, every time we kiss, hot lava Every time that we make love, there's lava, hot lava Lava so hot it makes me sweat, Lava so warm and red and wet And after the eruption, we lay dormant for a while Let's just hold each other and talk, For now, Pele sleeps Ooh, baby, every time we kiss, hot lava Every time that we make love baby, hot lava Lava so hot it makes me sweat, Lava so warm and red and wet Ooh, baby, every time we kiss, hot lava Every time that we make love there's lava, hot lava Lava so hot it makes me sweat, Lava so warm it makes me sweat

[@okboomer6201]

I've got the B-52s song stuck in my head.

[@NathanChisholm041]

You move to a area known for volcanic action don't come crying when the shit hits the fan!

[@TAZ0300]

Quick evacuate your home Take ONLY your personal possessions @9:02 📡 🤷🏻‍♂️ 🚗🌋= 🔥 🤦🏻‍♂️😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@davidgammon9751]

That which giveth life also taketh away.

[@TheLittlered1961]

Thank you for the great video. I can see Mount Rainier out my window as I type this. I just have a few problems with this video. First is the fact that they omitted the fact that Mount Rainier has more water mass than all the other lower USA Pacific Rim volcanoes combined. This includes Shasta, Hood, Adams, Glacier, and Baker. The Lahar from Mount St Helen will be a piss in the bucket compared to Mt Rainier. Second is Orting. Why do they always pick on that town? I can name many that are closer and fewer escape routes than Orting. These include Carbonato, Wilkerson, Bennett and many others. Other towns and cities in the way include Fife, Puyallup, and Kent. This is just a short list. Should Mount Rainier blow, I am sure that at least 1 million people will be affected. I know, I will be. Lahar, no, ash is a question mark. I know that I will be without water for weeks, if not months. I also will be without power for weeks or months. For the later two, it maybe years. The scariest is that I will be trapped on an island with no way out. Going north is out of the question. Towns and interstate washed out. Going south is out of the question, town and interstate washed out. East is Mt Rainier. Going west means at some time you must head south. Bridges washed out. Should Mt Rainier blow in my life time, it will make Katrina look like a walk in the park.

[@ninorcairam]

John Bango damn that is scary. My friend lived out there for a while and I was always worried. Luckily for me, on the east coast, my end will be met when I’m swept away by a devastating tsunami. Yay, nature!

[@TheLittlered1961]

Maria, in some ways it is scary. If Mount Rainier behaves like Mount St Helen, we will have weeks or months to prepare. Unlike tornadoes or hurricanes. I love that kind of prep time. Like it or not, if ma nature has your number, it is over.

[@TheLittlered1961]

Himself Lee, I could not agree more. They also love to focus on the dramatics far more than facts. In other words, they want to scare the crap out of us. The funny thing is most devastating events go in cycles. Mt Rainier is not "due" for another 100 to 200 years. The same can be said about the Cascadia subduction zone. The media wants us to believe other wise. I will not say it can't happen for either in our life time. I am saying that it is unlikely to happen. Sadly Ma Nature failed in calendar reading 101.

[@jamesmueller1921]

John B. I live in northeast Wa. , Most of my weather comes from the west, be it north west.. or south west..So yea,, thanks for the ash cloud and shit... burn down our forest and clog the colubian river ,,where will i fish ?? Shame... lol

[@SharonD369]

Can you really feel sorry for people building there house on a volcano for the surfing ???

[@sweetwolfsteve5583]

Nope not at all

[@soarinskies1105]

Those who build their house on the sand are fools

[@sweetwolfsteve5583]

I hate people that don't take disasters seriously hen they either die or get badly hurt that's their own fault

[@harrisonschneider8333]

Did anyone hear about the volcano eruption in Wisconsin?

[@bg2062]

Smartest thing to do is...do not at the base of a volcano...if you do,well then,you know what can happen.

[@magellan6108]

Nothing about Krakatoa? Hmmm.

[@Dragon-dp6cc]

There are larger eruptions than Krakatoa one being the largest in recorded history in 1815 on the island of Sumbawa from Mount Tambora which was at VEI 7 I don't think they mentioned that either

[@magellan6108]

Tangerine Sky333 Hi Tangerine, it is true that there have been many other eruptions that were not mentioned, and it is true that they only have a set amount of time, but the Krakatoa eruption of 1883 was very significant. With the explosive yield estimated at 200 megatons of TNT, it was heard some 2200 miles away. It ejected an estimated 6 cubic miles of debris into the atmosphere, and more than 36,000 people died because of it. It was very significant, but it did not earn even a one sentence mention? The Tambora eruption mentioned above was not included either. So, what was their criteria for inclusion and exclusion? I am left wondering about their ability or willingness to present the breadth of any of the subjects in this series. What are they not mentioning in the rest of their episodes because of time constraints or editorial decisions? Why should I grant them the status of speaking authoritatively on a subject I am unfamiliar with when they leave gaping holes in subjects I do know about? That is the point of my comment. Thanks for giving me the chance to clarify.

[@Dragon-dp6cc]

@@magellan6108 thanks for the comment volcanology is a hobby of mine

[@ingridakerblom7577]

Hawaii seems doomed to burn up, in some way or other..

[@Danstaafl]

Most of the fatalities at St Helen'e were NOT from the mudflows. These guys are being paid by the usgs to not tell you almost everyone killed were outside the red zone, some quite a ways, up in the green river area, 13 -14 miles north of the volcano, where temperatures were recorded still over 300f. One victims eggs were hard boiled in his ice chest from the heat. Yes some died in the flow, like 10 or so. Not "most". From USA Today "Autopsies showed that most of the people killed in the eruption likely died from asphyxiation after inhaling hot ash, according to the U.S. Geological Survey."

[@guytremblay1647]

the mistake came from the fact that no one ever expected a side eruption caused by a landslde releasing the pressur sideways . but they should have known that it was a possibilty since you have many other old valcanoes who show the evidence of a sideway eruption like Krakatoa did in the 1800's . the krakatoa we see today may have a Conic shape as it rebuilt itself since then but when it erupted in the 1800's the entire side bow up and almost obliterated the entire volcanoe itself

[@shadowbanned4149]

so boring i fell asleep O Lav@ Lav@ ////

[@harrisonschneider8333]

GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS AWESOME