The Active Volcano in Papua New Guinea; Manam

[@GeologyHub]

I hadn't covered a volcano in this part of the world for several months, so I decided to cover Manam since it is actively erupting! What are your thoughts on this volcano?

[@hotpawvlog9408]

Thanks for the great explanation about this Vulcano! I always enjoy them in your videos 👍🏾 You also speak very clear so that people who learned the language can understand everything best

[@TimeLapseRich]

People that live there... One day that volcano will really go, maybe someone needs to bring the local leaders on a feild trip to Pompeii.

[@GeologyHub]

@Tompii Trashbin yes, Kadovar.

[@stephenrickstrew7237]

That’s a volcano mean enough to win out against the jungle of Papua …Fiercely Beautiful…I heard that area described as being

[@TheAverageGuy12]

Yeah. Thanks. When are you returning to our part of the world? So much research is needed on South East Asian and Pacific volcanoes.

[@Quarton]

The Manam (MAH-num) volcano has been erupting off and on for many years. I used to live on the mainland, passing by it on the North Coast Road - and there's another volcano, Karkar Island, off the coast by Madang, and it's been dormant for a while. I remember asking the locals how they know a tsunami is coming. They said, if you see the sea waters recede rapidly, RUN the other way, to the highest ground possible!!

[@TheAverageGuy12]

Exciting story. What were you doing over in Papua?

[@TheSonic10160]

Unfortunately Tsunami do not always proceed themselves with the classic drawing away of water, other times they just pile on in.

[@jeankristoff5302]

I live near a volcano name Mt banahaw in the Philippines. A lot of people including me is wondering when did it erupt or its history of eruptions. Its a really interesting volcano and I hope that you can make video about Mt banahaw. ❤️

[@GeologyHub]

I will cover it. Oddly enough Banahaw has no confirmed recent eruptions despite reports of activity in: 1730, 1743, 1843, and 1909

[@jeankristoff5302]

@@GeologyHub Yeah it's a bit of a mystery and I live like 10-15 kilometers away from it. I always wonder if one day this volcano will erupt.

[@GeologyHub]

@@jeankristoff5302 by chance can you email me a few photos of that volcano that you took? Would save me a lot of time :). Preferable horizontally oriented (longer picture in width instead of height, much like the format of this video). Email is [e-mail] Otherwise, I probably have enough to go off of via google earth. Currently noting how young it’s lava domes look. Weird that it’s not part of the Laguna volcanic field to the north

[@jeankristoff5302]

@@GeologyHub ok I'll try my best!

[@LadyAnuB]

@@GeologyHub A geology professor at ASU?

[@amateurmakingmistakes]

In the 80's I used to fly for an airline based in Madang, and we serviced the next island along (Karkar Island) every weekday. It's also an active volcano with steam coming out every day that you could see as you approached the island. But Manam always had a head of steam and ash coming out from many miles away. Long Island is a very interesting volcanic island with its lake in the middle. A fellow pilot once showed me a huge rock on the mainland, that he told me had been blown out of Long Island, a distance of about 30 nautical miles. Would you be able to tell us more about Long Island and Karkar Island please?

[@GeologyHub]

I would love to cover both! The story about Long Island blowing a rock 30 nautical miles is 100% true. It produced two of the world's largest explosive eruptions in the last 10,000 years.

[@exopro836]

@@GeologyHub Conversations like this are show us what the magic of a free open internet can be. Thanks for the fascinating videos.

[@barry7608]

Love your work, factual without sensationalism.

[@mfaizsyahmi]

1800m above the surface, and 1400m below the surface. So what we're seeing is just half of the whole thing.

[@Mp57navy]

Well, assuming it's roughly a cone... It's a lot less than half.

[@blueicesunberg7598]

Hi thanks for this video i never eard of this island before i have an idea for maybe a another video on the under water volcano 🌋

[@sandrabulluck1896]

Me neither!

[@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

Bless you Hub another great video. By any chance would you be willing to cover the Rabaul Caldera in future?

[@arevolvingdoor3836]

Does anyone know of any paper that discuss the effect of volcanoes near the south pacific where el nino occurs and their effects on the global weather patterns? I'm interested to know if there is any connection between the two.

[@jasontempest4233]

Some amazing Volcanos in PNG. Several years ago I visited Tavurvur, which is adjacent to the former city of Rabaul. Rabaul and it's suburbs were buried by deep ash from an eruption of Tavurvur in 1994. Previously Rabaul was a modern colonial city and the capital of East New Britain. Many of it's wealthiest citizens are now scattered across the South Pacific. I was lucky to visit the Volcano and what remains of Rabaul with some of the many expats who now reside in Cairns Australia. It was an amazing journey seeing parts of the town with only a few inches and parts of town buried under several metres of pumice and ash. I was excited to visit still boiling streams and beaches with boiling water pouring out. While traveling around the region there is strong evidence of past deeper burials of ash where roads have been cut through hillsides. I would recommend a visit to East New Britain to anyone wishing to experience PNG islands culture largely untainted by western culture.

[@magnanimyus1614]

can you do Mt Ararat or Mt Nemrut (Nemrut caldera), both are very scenic and beautiful stratovolcanoes which I have visited and have been interested on. I’ve discovered your content recently and I enjoy it, this video was good as always like all the other ones

[@notyou1877]

There was a band called "Maanam". Made great music in the '80s. Its lead singer passed away just a couple of years ago from cancer. She had a set of vocal pipes like no other.

[@estera4176]

Great channel. (that intonation kills me though)

[@alfredosolano5317]

Can you talk about the Ulawun volcano (is a really active volcano and made a big eription in 1980.

[@GeologyHub]

A video on it has been made and scheduled for a future date (hasn’t been uploaded yet)

[@muhammadnursyahmi9440]

@@GeologyHub what about Rabaul caldera?

[@GeologyHub]

@@muhammadnursyahmi9440 planned but haven’t begun working on that video. Also planned is covering Long Island. That’s a truly impressive volcano

[@weetme1613]

@@GeologyHub oh, how about Billy Mitchell volcano, Bagana, and the famous Lamington volcano? Well, this area had lots of interesting volcanoes to cover !

[@dustinmarkley45]

Still waiting for longer videos. 4 minutes isnt enough for the quality of your content.

[@ayandas874]

0:47 is that a caldera rim in the ocean surrounding the island, or just a quirk of google maps?

[@sandrabulluck1896]

I was wondering that also!

[@GeologyHub]

A quirk of google maps. The computer generated ocean kicks in after a set distance from shorelines (including islands)

[@StuffandThings_]

Could you cover the lava cone volcanoes of Bougainville and the strange geologic setting there?

[@chrisrifkin3670]

And a volcano that has an unusual name as well (Billy Mitchell)that I *think* was another shield volcano that went psycho witb a VEI 6 eruption

[@sergioortiz8219]

Since magma needs dissolved gases to propel it to the surface, what is the source of the dissolved gases in eruptions that last for decades, or even centuries? Is it water vapor, since these long-term volcanoes all seem to be near or on the ocean?

[@teutonicdownfall2446]

New to the channel but any chance you can cover Ferninandea in the mediterranean (if you haven’t already)?

[@carloscastaneda5116]

Thankyou so much !

[@justalurkr]

Aw, it's a growing baby murder mountain ❤

[@ro4eva]

O_o

[@stuartaaron613]

Could you do a video about the Rabaul caldera?

[@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

Definitely hope he covers this. Rabaul is one of the most dangerous complexes in New Ginea and It has a very interesting history to back it as well.

[@chrisrifkin3670]

@@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective one of the suspects for the 540 kick in the nuts after the 536 mega eruption (Illopango?)knocked the world into the dark ages

[@midlandredux]

Fair enough, I'm selling my tropical paradise condo on Manam and investing in a beautiful vineyard on the flanks of Vesuvius.

[@GeologyHub]

Pfft. Or how about somewhere less active, like on the slopes of Mauna Loa? I mean that volcano isn’t waking up or anything so you should be all good (this is a sarcastic comment)

[@KaiserStormTracking]

@@GeologyHub or better yet go lave at Yasur or Ambryam, both have amazing lava lakes or did(sarcastic) also fun fact, never build near the caldera of an active shield volcano(2018 refernce)

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

Papua New Guinea has an amazing number of active and dormant volcanoes, take Rabaul Harbour for example, thats just a crater with water in it.. & Mt. Bosavi!! Wow, what a beast!

[@anyoneofus9948]

Are you ever going to do a video on the Carolina bays?

[@americanrebel413]

Thank you.

[@susanjacquier5358]

Great video....one question...what is a 'satellite volcano' that you referred to at .50 ? Cheers

[@Wongwanchungwongjumbo]

I Urged you to showcase Another Dangerous Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 Rabaul Island Volcano, Mt Tavurvur too.

[@gr84all]

I can't believe that people actually live there!

[@jacquesmertens3369]

Several attempts have been made to resettle the islanders, but they are part of a highly corrupt country. All funds made available for the resettlement quickly disappear into the deep pockets of local politicians.

[@conpanidis3574]

This is little help from PNG government. It is a poor country. Land is owned by the community (there is very little freehold or private property) so once they abandon their island they end up in squalid conditions with no support. Other communities will not assist them. In fact they will make war on them to push them out. If they allow them to stay, they will lose title to their land. 😭

[@poiriedo]

I used to think this was a real human until the last "patreon". love the vids still

[@KaiserStormTracking]

can confirm this is a human

[@ayeet3584]

Please review mount malindang

[@thesphinx336]

When are you going to cover Hekla? It is one of the few major well-known volcanoes you have not covered

[@GeologyHub]

There’s a few well known volcanoes that I haven’t gotten to. I will most likely make a video on it in the next month but it will be some time before it gets published. Right now many of my non volcanic eruption update videos are scheduled 50 days in advance. If you stay for that long, I can promise an eventual video on Hekla!

[@mariastein187]

I would like to hear something about Hekla and Katla in Iceland and about Campi Flegrei.

[@KaiserStormTracking]

Katla and Campi are done. Hekla will come soon, he has 50 days of video to still upload lol

[@LadyAnuB]

Love the volcano at 1:41. It looks like someone opened the doors and let the volcano erupt. 😀

[@benbrown2470]

Is that feature from New Guinea to the Solomon Islands a vast crater?

[@urbanlegendsandtrivia2023]

Thanks for another interesting video. If the cone only formed about 200 years ago, wouldn't scientists have more documentation though?

[@GeologyHub]

It wasn’t formed 200 years ago, this is simply when our current incomplete records go back to. Very little funding exists for volcanoes in this part of the world

[@urbanlegendsandtrivia2023]

@@GeologyHub Interesting. Thank you for the fast reply.

[@GeologyHub]

@@urbanlegendsandtrivia2023 I want to add that several volcanoes have records going before this time (such as Yasur) by the locals. However, for some reason they weren’t taken into account (possible imperialist bias given attitudes at the time?). Thus, Yasur may have been erupting for much longer than simply continuous since 1774. I’m saying this as a non biased American looking back at older datasets

[@urbanlegendsandtrivia2023]

@@GeologyHub Thanks. I recently thought of a fun idea for a video for your KZbin channel. It would be cool if you watched the three volcano movies from 1997 (Volcano, Dante's Peak, and Volcano: Fire on the Mountain), and then made a KZbin video criticizing the obvious inaccuracies.

[@GeologyHub]

@@urbanlegendsandtrivia2023 I had planned something similar for an April Fool's video. However, since youtube can be very weird with automatic copyright claims, I am seeking permission from the movie production companies first (even though it would be fair use)

[@kc3718]

what is the oldest extant, non denuded volcanic island, that still retains its profile ie no residual arc's etc ?

[@aaryabhatt5439]

Please make a video on, how many volcanos have erupted since 2019. As per।my calculations, this must be highest since then in last 50 years time and this is going to increase year by year for next couple of years। To be specific, till September 2024, most of the volcanos, which have active vains, will erupt। Thanks for this video।

[@casimirojachimowicz2094]

What happens when you mix water with volcanic ash. Will it turn into concrete .?

[@larrog8413]

I think you mean cement, as concrete is an aggregate of products. No it can definitely be an ingredient in concrete though. That's what made roman concrete so strong

[@KaiserStormTracking]

yes it turns into something like that which is why lahars are so deadly

[@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

It comes a very strong bonding agent akin to cement yes. Typically speaking due to the fine mineral content volcanic ash doesn’t dissolve when exposed seawater making it a great foundation for concrete. Something the Romans took to heart because it’s used in many of their ancient structures.

[@knexcoastercreations971]

Please do extinct volcanoes in the uk

[@The_Robert.Fletcher]

Yes, I agree I live near Bardon Hill and Beacon Hill in Leicestershire from the little I read they are some of the oldest volcanoes in the world last erupting 600 MYA and 700 MYA. I find it hard to get detailed information.

[@simonlemerveilleuxdelisle3779]

Manam has been responsible of some of the highest ash plumes since Pinatubo. Some subplinians eruptions with ash plumes as high as 15 km asl and even 20 km in 2015. Quizz : Can anyone name the eruption/volcano that produced the highest plume since Pinatubo? Its not Manam of course.

[@GeologyHub]

Either Mount Hudson or Puyehue-Cordón Caulle

[@simonlemerveilleuxdelisle3779]

@@GeologyHub You are pretty close geographically but nope! Strangely enough, Cordon Caulle didnt produce that high of a plume. Also, weird that its widely considered as a vei5 eruption since its short of the 1 cubic kilometer required for a vei5. Look for a plume close to 30 km (almost 100 000 feet).

[@chrisrifkin3670]

I think one on that Russian peninsula in the Pacific

[@simonlemerveilleuxdelisle3779]

@@chrisrifkin3670 You are probably thinking of Shiveluch and Bezimianny which both had several significant eruptions within the last 30 years, however, none of them sent ash really close to 30 km high. More like around 20 km max like Manam. The eruption I am referring to was the first major rhyolitic eruption since the much larger Novarupta in 1912.

[@chrisrifkin3670]

Ok that has to bs Caitan(which was only a VEI 4 IIR)

[@privatename2236]

Ridiculous for people to live on the island.

[@nmr3352]

You mean like ridiculous for people to live in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, and all the states that will be obliterated by yellowstone?

[@CaradhrasAiguo49]

@@nmr3352 many orders of magnitude off on the threat timescale there!

[@daos3300]

that's because you don't know much about PNG, it's society or its politics.

[@WTH1812]

Is Manam more active than the Rabaul Caldera on New Britain?

[@Wongwanchungwongjumbo]

Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 Rabaul Island have Active Volcanoes too.

[@9875z]

from above, it looks like a lily pad

[@jamesblake44]

I would love if you could cover mount sumbing, mount merbabu and mount sundoro in Central java one day I would love to know more about there past and potential future. And your the best teacher for it. 😊 Also, I am fascinated with volcanoes to the point where I want to study them and I dream of becoming a volcanologist. How would I do that? Sorry its a long comment 😅

[@tomswoods]

Do you think videos of UFOs and volcanos are legit? I heard recently that volcanoes have a great deal of electrical charge within them before they erupt, is this so? Thanks for all your professional videos, I ask these questions with all due respect. You Rock :)

[@canyoncrow11]

Tsunami?

[@deborahs.9389]

Why is Papua still so uninhabited???

[@stonew1927]

It isn't.

[@GeologyHub]

Although not as sparsely populated as say Australia, I quite enjoy the amount of true wilderness in the country.

[@pretzelhunt]

Their organization of the many social groups encourage closeknit communities much more than the Western idea of isolation and remoteness that comes with 'idyllic island living'. And I agree also with Stone and GH that it isn't.

[@wildfire3986]

West Papua tho

[@GeologyHub]

@@wildfire3986 never been there sadly

[@jaimepatino1382]

Por siempre a tu nombre dare Gloria por el favor tan grande que me has hecho pues libraste mi vida del abismo

[@nirmalasingh7677]

ohhh thats where that SO2 plume is coming from.

[@CreativeWarrior-]

YIKES!!!

[@lunes-1]

🌋🔥💭

[@robbabcock_]

Yikes! Not a good place to live. 🌋🌋🌋

[@bremnersghost948]

Manam Manam, The Muppets Favourite Volcano :)

[@manu3281]

No way three thousand people live on that island!

[@GeologyHub]

It’s surprising, but given the number of structures visible via high satellite resolution, the number seems accurate

[@shawncharton9416]

Do you have any clue how hysterical it is that you can't pronounce Manam the same way twice?

[@NeoRipshaft]

lol I'm surprised that anyone lives on the island, given that it's composition appears to be 100% vocano... while I'm sure its an extremely lovely island, perhaps there's better options? =/

[@ro4eva]

Most likely marvelously stupid question: Is there any way to survive being enveloped by a pyroclastic flow?

[@tylerslagel5485]

Luck

[@Akechi_The_Phantom_Detective]

Only one person has ever been known to survive a pyroclastic flow and that was during the eruption of Mount Pelee. For the most part though you have absolutely no shot given the extreme heat and speed these flows generate.

[@GeologyHub]

Yes. Best I know it’s luck, hoping you are at the overall edge of the flow and only sustain 3rd degree burns. It would be nice if some emergency kit could activate to protect a person (like pulling a parachute?), but alas no such technology exists. If you see a flow coming towards you the best thing you can do is run perpendicular to it, going towards a high point not directly attached to the overall volcano

[@poosaecat7876]

Mount apo

[@deadgoon2170]

Sorry on the evacuation, but starvation beats fear...

[@patriciaactis]

⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@lukebutler3299]

Ulawun

[@randymagnum8721]

The people take a huge risk living there, but it's their choice.

[@vanderboom4640]

Been getting a lot of earthquakes in the socialist state of Victoria in Australia lately can you please look in to it

[@KaiserStormTracking]

can you name the general region of the state? might be able to see if theres any volcanoes nearby and if so it could just be a minor swarm. if not its related to a fault system

[@jeffreygosselin7576]

Is there a Mamau New Guinea ????😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kubawojewodzki1020]

Boom, hope this island was desolate today

[@HEWfunkingKNEWit]

472nd

[@jaimepatino1382]

No sabéis que sois templo de Dios, y que el Espíritu de Dios mora en vosotros? 17 Si alguno contamina el templo de Dios, Dios lo destruirá; porque el templo de Dios es santo, el cual sois vosotros

[@kevindonaghey8483]

With the current solar minimum cycle more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are expected due to an increase of magnetic pull on the earth it also increases extreme weather conditions

[@thomasneal9291]

If that were true, you would see the effect in daily tides. We don't though.

[@daos3300]

Kevin Donaghey er, no.

[@auroradawn8904]

NO SUCH THING AS VOLCANOS!!☺

[@projectaks4745]

What

[@huntermossakajunkerman9646]

So the the 1980 eruption of mt st Helens didn't happen? What about mt pinatubo in 1991? What about mt vesuvius in 79 A.D.?

[@Jameson1776]

@@huntermossakajunkerman9646 you heard him NEVER HAPPENED!