This Week in Volcano News; Destructive Eruption at Ruang, 20+ Taal Eruptions

One of the century's largest explosive eruptions occurred this week at a little known volcano known as Ruang. Its eruption devastated wide swaths of an existing populated island, and led to the evacuation of 12,000 people. Meanwhile, also in Indonesia, the alert level of the Awu volcano was raised from yellow to orange. The Gamalama volcano also produced a brief eruption, while in the Philippines more than 20 brief phreatomagmatic eruptions occurred from the Taal volcano. This video will discuss these stories and list the 48 volcanoes which are currently erupting around the planet.

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Sources/Citations:
[1] PVMBG (Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Bencana Geologi) (Indonesia)
[4] Ekliptika. This source was used to cite the size of the following DRE values where tephra values were these figures multiplied by 2: 2010 Merapi, 2014 Kelud, 2024 Ruang.
[5] Pranantyo, Ignatius & Heidarzadeh, Mohammad & Cummins, Philr. (2021). Complex tsunami hazards in eastern Indonesia from seismic and non-seismic sources: Deterministic modelling based on historical and modern data. Geoscience Letters. 8. 20. 10.1186/s40562-021-00190-y. CC BY 4.0.
[7] Phivolcs (Philippines)
[8] U.S. Geological Survey
[9] Rabaul Volcano Observatory
[10] Servicio Geológico Colombiano (Colombia)
[11] Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
[12] Alaska Volcano Observatory
[13] Vanuatu Meteorology & Geo-Hazards Department
[14] Instituto Geofisica Escuela Politecnica Nacional (Ecuador)
[15] OVSICORI-UNA (Costa Rica)
[16] Sernageomin (Chile)
[17] Vanuatu Meteorology and Geo-hazards Department
[18] Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Russia)
[19] Tonga Geological Survey (Tonga)
[20] CIVISA (Azores)
[21] Japanese Meteorological Agency
[22] University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute
[23] Geonet (New Zealand)
[24] INGV (Italy)
[25] Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys
[26] Tonga Geological Services

0:00 Mount Merapi Eruption
0:37 This Week's Top Stories
0:59 Mount Awu Unrest
1:42 Ruang Plinian Eruption
3:36 Taal Volcano
4:28 Gamalama Eruption
4:55 Full List of Erupting Volcanoes

[soranuareane]

No casualties from the Ruang eruption?? This is amazing news! I was so worried about the inhabitants on the nearby island.

[TheSpaceEnthusiast-vlwx]

It is very good to hear that there have been no casualties due to the Ruang Volcano.

[kskssxoxskskss]

Thanks for explaining what Indonesia did right to save lives. It was my privilege to briefly live and work at the other end of that wonderful country when I was young, giving enduring memories and gratitude for its physical beauty and warm, thoughtful people.

[spocksdaughter]

Your wk to pull together so many info graphics and data about different events must take hours of effort for you! I just now left watching Isak drone flight when this notification popped up to come see this update. Just a few min prior you had been favorably mentioned as a measurement source in comments. I always feel proud when your acknowledged!

[hugodesrosiers-plaisance]

How to avoid a catastrophe movie scenario?
LISTEN TO THE
They did an amazing job on that one. Much respect! ❤

[scrappydoo]

That volcanic lightning is beautiful ❤️

[katgrey]

I'm so glad no one was killed in this eruption; however, the loss of the animals is great, and both domestic and wildlife have suffered! Their way of life has been wiped out. 😢

[zyrians]

Volcanoes in Eastern Indonesia are very underrated. Need more attention from volcanology researchers..banda vulcanic complex area has a large caldera under the sea.

[digitaldreamer]

Boy, that Taal Volcano is going to be a massive eruption someday and no one will want to anywhere near that country when it happens…😢

[Joe-jju]

I was just thinking about Awu.
Very dangerous volcano.

[GREGLUCAS-uf]

Your continued updates are appreciated. Please keep up the fine research and reporting. Greg in Southern Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 😊.

[dannybrown]

Well done I'm always impressed by my neighbor in Arizona
Keep it up dude

[tjaymetal]

What are the chances of TAAL having an explosive type of eruption? In 2020 and 2021 it kinda more of a plinian eruption, mostly gasses and ashes and I don’t think there’s any casualties.

Lots of people lived in that area, just wondering……

[zoeymrs]

Thank you for the update, i love your videos🌋.

[farhanatashiga]

What happened at ruang should be made into a documentary.

From it going from 0 to 100 so quickly to somehow noone being injured or killed is just TV worthy.

[Mark-ylps]

Seems like every Indonesian volcanoes can pull the trigger anytime then starts to get going.

atleast, volcanic activity in the region is not that isolated or concentrated only on some notable ones, but everyone is very capable of doing such, and can even produce eruptions that can rival from other neighboring volcanoes within Indonesia.

[bothompson-ovju]

You did a fantastic job to I'm no where near it or any volcano I live in Missouri more of a tornado guy but this has quickly become one of my favorite channels.
Keep up the good work

[ubermachtthemechanic]

Imagine listening to science experts and that decision saved lives. Hope there are political officials watching this!!!

[cherylb]

Hey GeologyHub~ Thank you for this. I am glad there were no casualties at Ruang. It makes me sad to think of the destruction of everything else, though. They lost their way of life. While this is worse, I am reminded of Grindavik. Heartbreaking.
Also, I find it disturbing when you recall past events and I remember you discussing them in past videos. Then again, I am happy to have found you.

[AngryGecko]

I’m glad that everyone is okay after the Ruang eruption