La Palma is rumbling - What are the implications of a 40 foot Tsunami along the east coast?

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T0oCoolFool said:
Dumb question, but is this due to La Palma? Are they connected somehow?
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Oh not a silly question at all. Yes, they are connected.

They are relatively close and if one goes off then the other goes off and in fact it is possible this sets off a chain reaction of volacanoes around the entire Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Wall of fire.

The connection they have is that they are both connected to the Inner core and are only 7,000 miles apart (surface distance), so very close and very connected. We are expecting Lake Taupo in NZ to erupt also as that is even closer o Hawaii than La Palma. And of course, Yellowstone is even closer to La Palma so much more likely to go off as well...
 
T0oCoolFool said:
Dumb question, but is this due to La Palma? Are they connected somehow?
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Kilauea has been in an active cycle since 2018. So this isn't anything unusual. As for a connection between all of the recent volcanic activity. The best rational hypothesis I have seen regarding it, (and at this point it is an unproven hypothesis, but an interesting and rational one) also correlates a bit to "climate change". The Earth's Orbit around the Sun is not perfectly circular. It drifts slightly in and out over a cycle of years. One speculation is that Volcanic Activity picks up when the earth is at or around the closest part of it's drift, and sees the longest periods of subsidence at the far points. We are currently in the close part of the cycle. In the close part of the cycle the earth is picking up a bit more energy and is probably under a hair more stress. Other than most likely being a large contributor to long term cyclic climate changes, it's not anything to panic about, unless of course you live on a Volcano. In which case you are probably an idiot who deserves what is coming. Not unlike the morons who choose to live on barrier beaches in Hurricane Alley.
 
I tried googling how many volcanoes have been erupting at one time in the 20th century I. E have there been more than three volcanoes erupting at some point at the same time last century but Google could not provide the answer.
Anyone on here able to shed some light?
 
Speaking of Kileaua, the new Geology Hub video about Kilauea.
There are 4 volcanoes currently erupting in the U.S mainly in Alaska and now Kileaua
 
RodgerDodger said:
Kilauea has been in an active cycle since 2018. So this isn't anything unusual. As for a connection between all of the recent volcanic activity. The best rational hypothesis I have seen regarding it, (and at this point it is an unproven hypothesis, but an interesting and rational one) also correlates a bit to "climate change". The Earth's Orbit around the Sun is not perfectly circular. It drifts slightly in and out over a cycle of years. One speculation is that Volcanic Activity picks up when the earth is at or around the closest part of it's drift, and sees the longest periods of subsidence at the far points. We are currently in the close part of the cycle. In the close part of the cycle the earth is picking up a bit more energy and is probably under a hair more stress. Other than most likely being a large contributor to long term cyclic climate changes, it's not anything to panic about, unless of course you live on a Volcano. In which case you are probably an idiot who deserves what is coming. Not unlike the morons who choose to live on barrier beaches in Hurricane Alley.
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The 21st century has seen just one VEI 5.

The 20th century saw 10 VEI 5s and 3 whopping VEI 6's.

The 19th Century saw 7 VEI 5's, 2 VEI 6's and an incredible VEI 7 - (this singular eruption equates to more than all ALL ERUPTIONS in the last 300 years combined).

So actually, it is rather quiet in perspective.
 
Menotaur said:
Oh not a silly question at all. Yes, they are connected.

They are relatively close and if one goes off then the other goes off and in fact it is possible this sets off a chain reaction of volacanoes around the entire Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Wall of fire.

The connection they have is that they are both connected to the Inner core and are only 7,000 miles apart (surface distance), so very close and very connected. We are expecting Lake Taupo in NZ to erupt also as that is even closer o Hawaii than La Palma. And of course, Yellowstone is even closer to La Palma so much more likely to go off as well...
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I believe you because you have a black & white avie and that means you're an informed individual, otherwise I'd think your information to be false.
 
Death Grip said:
I tried googling how many volcanoes have been erupting at one time in the 20th century I. E have there been more than three volcanoes erupting at some point at the same time last century but Google could not provide the answer.
Anyone on here able to shed some light?
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I don’t think there has been a point in modern history where there were fewer than 3 Volcano’s erupting around the Pacific “Ring of Fire” alone. American’s don’t even realize how many active volcanos there are in Alaska. The violent explosive eruptions that pour tons of ejected material and gasses high into the atmosphere are rarer. With Krakatoa class events thankfully extremely rare.
 
RodgerDodger said:
I don’t think there has been a point in modern history where there were fewer than 3 Volcano’s erupting around the Pacific “Ring of Fire” alone. American’s don’t even realize how many active volcanos there are in Alaska. The violent explosive eruptions that pour tons of ejected material and gasses high into the atmosphere are rarer. With Krakatoa class events thankfully extremely rare.
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And that's not considering the number of undersea volcanos that are popping off constantly. They're more active than anyone ever realised.
 
The volcano is absolutely fucking apocalyptic tonight. It's popped several new vents just in the last couple of hours and is utterly unrecognizable from what it looked like this afternoon. I've seen two massive fireball explosions and it looks like the whole thing could crack open or disintegrate at any time.

 
Nature's being messy.

Where does all that magma/lava come from? There can't be an infinite supply. Is this creating sinkholes somewhere?
 
F_Break said:
The volcano is absolutely fucking apocalyptic tonight. It's popped several new vents just in the last couple of hours and is utterly unrecognizable from what it looked like this afternoon. I've seen two massive fireball explosions and it looks like the whole thing could crack open or disintegrate at any time.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jfFj1V7l1YQ
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Holy fuck, you weren't kidding. I wish this cam was at a different angle so smoke wasn't obscuring things; is it just the angle, or does that smoke seem a lot BLACKER than last night? Does that mean something's changed in the makeup of what's coming out?

Edit: went to check the cam link I was watching last night, which is still at a similar angle, and the differences are pretty stark; last night was sort of pulses, like watching a geyser or an ocean blowhole, but now it's a steady powerful fountain of flame. The smoke looks DRAMATICALLY darker in a spot near the top and most active vent.
 
You can even see red hot boulders the size of cars, tumbling down the mountain amidst the pyroclastic flow. Some real Night on Bald Mountain shit.

This stream has some interesting info at the bottom.
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New vents on the bottom. That caldera is swiss cheese...its gonna collapse at some point

Question is then what? That slone would trigger a massive earthquake and the lava still would be coming.

Could be a catalyst for landslide. Keep eye on it
 
BoobWhiskers said:
Holy fuck, you weren't kidding. I wish this cam was at a different angle so smoke wasn't obscuring things; is it just the angle, or does that smoke seem a lot BLACKER than last night? Does that mean something's changed in the makeup of what's coming out?

Edit: went to check the cam link I was watching last night, which is still at a similar angle, and the differences are pretty stark; last night was sort of pulses, like watching a geyser or an ocean blowhole, but now it's a steady powerful fountain of flame. The smoke looks DRAMATICALLY darker in a spot near the top and most active vent.
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There must be a lot of gas pockets because there were several massive fire ball explosions. The top is blasted open and the middle vent has been melting its way through the surrounding rock. Here's a clip of one of the new base vents exploding:
 
FatalTater said:
Nature's being messy.

Where does all that magma/lava come from? There can't be an infinite supply. Is this creating sinkholes somewhere?
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Well yes. That's what a Volcano's Caldera is. The Lava rises from the mantle through the crust where one continental plate is grinding underneath another and creating intense pressure. Beneath the Volcano a lava chamber is slowly filled until pressure builds in it and it forces it's way to the surface. As the lava chamber empties via the eruptive cycle the rising volcano collapses in on itself like a sinkhole. Forming what's known as the Caldera. Rinse and repeat every few decades/centuries/millennia. The big crater at the center of a volcano isn't simply from the explosive eruption, it's from the volcano collapsing in on itself as the internal pressure is vented. The problem here with La Palma is that the island isn't actually a volcanic cone. It's more of a pillar. It's an almost vertical shaft running up from the deep sea bed with just the tip poking up to form the island (insert obvious penis joke here). So rather than simply forming a sinkhole type caldera, it's prone for a portion of the pillar to simply shear away. Which is what has the potential to cause a rather substantial Atlantic Tsunami.
 
RodgerDodger said:
Well yes. That's what a Volcano's Caldera is. The Lava rises from the mantle through the crust where one continental plate is grinding underneath another and creating intense pressure. Beneath the Volcano a lava chamber is slowly filled until pressure builds in it and it forces it's way to the surface. As the lava chamber empties via the eruptive cycle the rising volcano collapses in on itself like a sinkhole. Forming what's known as the Caldera. Rinse and repeat every few decades/centuries/millennia. The big crater at the center of a volcano isn't simply from the explosive eruption, it's from the volcano collapsing in on itself as the internal pressure is vented. The problem here with La Palma is that the island isn't actually a volcanic cone. It's more of a pillar. It's an almost vertical shaft running up from the deep sea bed with just the tip poking up to form the island (insert obvious penis joke here). So rather than simply forming a sinkhole type caldera, it's prone for a portion of the pillar to simply shear away. Which is what has the potential to cause a rather substantial Atlantic Tsunami.
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Well its just la palma....el herro and others all have created catastrophic tsnumamis in the past. Its the whole island chain
 
Did ANOTHER vent open somewhere out of sight off to the left? There's steady smoke coming from that direction that I don't remember seeing before. I know we've got new vents at the bottom but this seems like it's coming from a whole different direction than anything I knew about.
 
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