The Active Volcano in the Philippines; Mount Parker

[@teddymanguerra]

I was just 7 years old when Mt. Pinatubo erupted. I was then residing at a place that is about 360 km south of the volcano. When it erupted, it turned the sky as dark as night. I thought there was an eclipse, but it felt more like the end of the world. The next day, ash fell down because a tropical storm interacted with the ejected material. Years later, in 2020, Taal Volcano erupted, and my residence was just about 60 km from it. But who am I kidding? My house is in a town close to Laguna Lake (which is a potentially active volcanic caldera). So, yes, it's more fun in the Philippines.

[@paulschulte1064]

I just moved to the Philippines and being as my college minor was geology I intend to do some geologic based sight seeing.

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

​@@paulschulte1064One proabable place for geological sightseeing is Mount Pinatubo.

[@b3blueblue]

@@paulschulte1064Check out the fantastic Mt. Mayon in Legazpi City.

[@OpaSpielt]

Thank you for this video. I will share it to my friend who's born in General Santos City, aka Gensan. I don't know if my friend is aware of Mt.Parker being such an impressive volcano almost in the backyard of Gensan. Have a nice day 🖐👴

[@kswsquared]

Parker's 1640 eruption partially explains the sandy ground common in and around GenSan. The study that nailed the most recent eruption date to 1640 got some of its samples from around GenSan for radiocarbon dating, taking wood preserved in the middle of ash deposits, from what I can remember. The 1640 eruption is also sometimes misattributed to Mt. Apo, which isn't that far away.

[@alexis_ian]

Living in General Santos I've only been aware about Mt Parker (Also known as Melebingoy), only 2015 their seem to be a number of inactive to active volcanos, not far from my city is Mount Matutum which last erupted in 1911 and further down south in Davao del sur is Mount Apo (the tallest peak in the Philippines) which some people don't realized is a potentially active volcano! Which history is largely unknown and intresting topic to discuss along with Mt Matutum.

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

Finally! Thanks, Geology Hub!

[@RoseNZieg]

it's so weird to think that volcanoes like these are the reason why people halfway around the world even died from its weather-changing ashes.

[@OrdinaryCritic]

So true. And it’s all because of anthropogenic climate change.

[@jjMcCartan9686]

Philippines is a great holiday destination. Lovely people & great for volcano hikes.

[@kevinv.m.94]

Please feature the Mt. Isarog, the bigger but a bit shorter sister of Mayon in the Bicol Volcanic Arc. It has a somma ridge, as well as a very deep canyon breeching its crater. As a child, I often hear [a legend] from elderly that "Isarog erupts water, Mayon erupts fire." Christopher Newhall said that that tale might be from the event when its former crater lake got breeched a long time ago. Limited information is publicly available. I wish to know more about this majestic volcano where I am living (on it's broad shoulder).

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

I concur.

[@KillberZomL4D42494]

Thank you so much for this. I've always wanted to know more about the volcanoes in my country but little to almost no information can be found. I'm most specially interested in knowing more about the volcano near my city, it's potentially active island volcano named Maripipi, but I can't find more info about it.

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

I agree. Since I commonly edit Wikipedia, I read a lot of research papers relating to Mount Vesuvius, Hunga Tong Hunga Ha'apai and many more geologic features. I did this so much in the summer of 2022 that I am pervaded by nostalgia when I think of that time of year. I commented profusely on Geology Hub's videos, even bringing what I read in the research papers to the table. Those times were amazing. I am sorry if I went on too much of a tangent.

[@sanjodaily3074]

I climbed mt parker 3 times and its beautiful

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

Must have been breathtaking!

[@iselfidentifyah64eapache]

If you fly to General Santos airport, in General Santos City, Mindanao, you will notice that the lay of the land looks very similar to the land in Pampanga and Tarlac provinces where Mt Pinatubo is located. When the plane I was on was landing, I noticed the terrain and wondered if it was ash or lahar coming from a volcano. I suspected it came from Mt Parker, and wondered how the eruption that created Lake Holon may have been as great as Pinatubo's 1991 eruption. The historical date you gave for the Mt Parker eruption is also intriguing. By then the Spanish were here. It is said that prior to Pinatubo's 1991 eruption, it erupted in the 1500s or thereabouts and it may have caused the weakening of the native, Muslim kingdoms in Luzon around Pampanga and Manila areas. This weakening may have served as an opening for Spanish conquest when Spain decided to colonize the Philippine Islands post-Magellan's voyage. The Philippines would have suffered a double whammy with the Mt Parker eruption in the 1600s, weakening Muslim kingdoms although Mindanao was not really completely pacified by the Spanish until the Americans. Great video!

[@alfredbirnfeldt7492]

One of my many curiosities regarding volcanism is about the reason why are there 2 clear gaps in the Andes volcanic chain in South America. If the Nazca plate is subducting all across the Pacific coast of that continent, why are there no volcanoes in Northern Peru and Central/Northern Chile? It seems like it is the only place in the Ring Of Fire to contain these gaps free of volcanoes.

[@EperogiLimousine]

This is because of the angle the nazca plate subducts, the llate is way too shallow to create many volcanoes

[@nortyfiner]

The gaps are caused by subduction of the Nazca Ridge (northern gap) and Juan Fernandez Ridge (southern gap). The crust under the ridges is more buoyant, making the angle of subduction in those areas much shallower; flat-slab subduction as it's called. This limits volcanism in those areas because the subducted flat slab effectively blocks magma rising from the mantle, preventing it from reaching the surface.

[@NotSomeJustinWithoutAMoustache]

If it's in the Ring of Fire Geology Hub discussed another gap in Japan iirc, maybe the cause is similar?

[@nortyfiner]

I recall when Pinatubo first started to wake up, it was a big surprise to most people, because they had forgotten it was a volcano and nobody had ever bothered to study it in detail. Scientists had to rush trying to decipher its geological history before its big eruption, and were shocked by how dangerous it turned out to be. Mount Lamington was the same way; it wasn't recognized as a volcano until its major eruption in 1951. There are other examples as well. It makes one wonder how many other unrecognized or "extinct" volcanoes are out there, slowly charging up on a scale of centuries or millennia and biding their time until SURPRISE! Those are the volcanoes that really scare me.

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

I am particularly interested in those.

[@Yezpahr]

Endless geology news, endless joy.

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

True!

[@Pertusetian]

Another excellent and informative video. Thanking Alan Smithee at the end, now that is hilarious!! Unless that's really his name, in which case, sorry Alan!

[@musa7606]

Very prolific director!

[@timothyjones7067]

Geologyhub, you should do a geologic history of Aconcagua.

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

I agree.

[@chaeyeonieearts]

this is a really wonderful place to camp in by the way! i hiked here a few times, the lake is known here as lake holon, and the volcano itself is melibengoy (which is. the actual name used by the tboli people.)

[@stormcrowemissaryofsophia2366]

im extremely interested in volcano births and the timeframes of those births. where clusters of volcano births occur within decades of one another.. thats what im really interested in. if you could do a video on volcano birth eras, that'd be freakin awesome. cheers.

[@stormcrowemissaryofsophia2366]

by understanding when clusters of volcanoes are born, helps identify when solar CLADE's have occurred. we are going through a clade right now and have been since january 31st 2017. by understanding volcano history, helps understand the history of the sun. #CosmicLightAcceleratedDustEvent_X_class (cosmic ray and gamma ray storm)

[@stormcrowemissaryofsophia2366]

the last clade was during the era of the spanish flu. thats how it really got its name.. from the #san_salvador_eruuption and #novarupta_precursor. encephalitis lethargica, just like the current world health crisis lethargies are one and the same.. a product of muons and respiratory acidosis

[@stormcrowemissaryofsophia2366]

the current volcano birth era(of the clade-x sun) is already perfectly documented by this channel. i cant thank you enough for that. sincerely: the Wizard of Aus.

[@stormcrowemissaryofsophia2366]

prior to the spanish flu, the most previous documented clade era i could find, was from ancient rome.. 189 CE. in that year, the river tiber experienced 12 months of non stop flooding.. and then rome descended into the chaos of the consecutive reign of evil caesers. "by understanding the past, gives hints at what to expect from the future" - rough quote from Marcus Aurellius Antoninus

[@ankeschone8883]

Could you make a Video about the "Maria Lach (it is a Lake)" Volcano in the "Eifel" in Germany please

[@GeologyHub]

I have an older video on this lake, the Laacher See caldera.

[@icarusi446]

Next try the volcano mt arayat also in the Philippines

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

Yes.

[@66391_Moshup]

Could you make a video about the jolo group of volcanoes? I went there and the lakes looked cool, one even looked like a heart shaped lake.

[@TheJohtunnBandit]

Does rock formed from a pyroclastic flow and/or a phreatic eruption count as igneous or sedimentary?

[@EperogiLimousine]

They don’t really from rocks, I guess the debris could get broken and compacted which would be sedimentary, and I guess if melting occurred it would be igneous, but these don’t make rocks

[@elverjovittorrero3338]

Hello can you make a geologic video about lake Leonard (Leonard Kniaseff) an active volcano in the island of mindanao

[@DanielODonoghue412]

Are there any extinct volcanoes in the eastern US? If so, have/can you make a compilation video giving a quick summary of them?

[@EperogiLimousine]

Knob hill, mole hill, that’s about it

[@DanielODonoghue412]

@@EperogiLimousine damn

[@jasonworks1454]

Lava plume/hot spot under 3 new England states... But I don't remember the name.

[@sjeason]

There was likely hundreds during both the time when the Appalachian’s were forming and when England and Ireland broke off from the continent, problem is most of them in the eastern us have eroded or are hard to detect

[@nortyfiner]

There probably are more than are actually known, but they're all tens of millions of years old and mostly eroded and buried. He has done a few videos on certain ones already.

[@theothermrsaturn]

Never knew this existed

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

That's very understandable, a lot of volcanoes like it are either understudied or the research related to them is locked.

[@saisai2475]

Can you make a video of the 3 volcanoes in Lanao Del Sur Philippines?

[@crisphminecraft7973]

Can you make a video about mt. Natib in Bataan, Philippines so that I will learn more about it's history.

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

I agree.

[@thrll894]

Topic about Mount Balungao, Pangasinan? It looks like a cinder cone.

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

Agreed, There are also other volcanoes near Rosales.

[@S-T-E-V-E]

Could you please do a Video on Ball's Pyramid?

[@farhanatashiga3721]

I'm surprised they didn't change its official name to a more native one

[@kensmith8832]

Have you ever done a video on diatomaceous earth and the uses of the material? I found it is great way to remove fire ants and scorpions.

[@nortyfiner]

The US Navy uses diatomaceous earth (DE) as insulation on steam pipes. Since much of DE's volume is empty space, it makes excellent insulation. Unfortunately, DE is also a crystal silica inhalation hazard, so wearing proper PPE is a must when working with it.

[@EperogiLimousine]

You should do something on Shishaldin

[@newt4050]

How come they never told us about this volcano??

[@NPNN-xt4ot]

Oh no not another volcano in the Philippines. Now I'm thinking of moving to where there are no volcanoes. Savo island sounds nice. 😁🤣😂🤣🤣

[@michaelgurvitz9310]

I would make a request on if you think the origins were volcanic? Collins and his team found balls of sulfur (brimstone) burnt into walls, floors and pillars. They also found layers of ash and a large archway covered in sulfur, which looks like a hard white substance. They took samples of the sulfur which they found all over the area of Tall el-Hammam and inspected it in a lab. These balls of sulfur, are around 94-98 percent pure sulfur with some remaining magnesium in them. This evidence fits the biblical description for what happened to Sodom and its neighboring city Gomorrah as magnesium burns extremely hot and fast. Some say that the balls of sulfur with the existence of the many ash layers found all over the city is because a volcano erupted covering the city in sulfur and ash. However, sulfur that is produced in a volcanic eruption, is only 40 percent sulfur and it’s a crystal type of sulfur, not a hard dense white sulfur like what we find at Sodom. It is clear to see from the evidence that sulfur, burning extremely hot and raining down from the sky lead to the total destruction of this city. Ron Wyatt also discovered round balls of encapsulated sulfur (brimstone) at the Sodom location and swirling layers geological layers telling a very real catastrophic story.

[@thomaspoczontek7731]

Recent earthquake swarm in Yellowstone you should do a video on that

[@bloodrave9578]

That's normal at Yellowstone

[@EperogiLimousine]

Probably nothing big so not topic-worthy

[@TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx]

Yep, caldera systems usually do that.

[@markday4854]

mt. arayat, Philippines

[@Florahitman]

*Lake Parker

[@romelledesma3058]

*Lake Holon

[@EperogiLimousine]

First hahahahha

[@66391_Moshup]

Could you make a video about the jolo group of volcanoes? I went there and the lakes looked cool, one even looked like a heart shaped lake.