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https://youtu.be/7zaQCIxJtG0

Edit: video with some more footage of the aborted trip: https://youtu.be/gdIFWoLH7gU

Luckily, it began slowly, and their guides recognized the increasing steam venting as a "GET OUT NOW!" warning, unlike what probably happened at White Island a few weeks ago. Our MX Guide, JayM, lives in the Philippines, but I gather isn't that close to the volcano. As of today, there are many quakes and fissures opening up around the main Lake Taal, indicating a lot of magma intruding into the system...

That's am amazing video--those people are very lucky.

I'm around 500km. from there. The first I even heard of the eruption was this topic. :)

Well, I'm sure you have other, closer, volcanoes than you can worry about, though Taal is a very nasty and unpredictable customer. That "Volcano Island" they fled from in Lake Taal is just a minor part of the Taal caldera system, though most historical activity has occurred there. Lake Taal actually fills the 15 x 30 km Taal Caldera, which has had huge eruptions in not-too-distant geologic past that buried the site of present day Manila under red hot volcanic ash flows. If that happened today, it would kill many millions, but currently the caldera system is erupting instead of being plugged and thus building up pressure.

Drone footage shows that the crater lake they were heading for is either gone or nearly so, with most of the rest of the island heavily covered with ash: https://mobile.twitter.com/raffytima/st ... 1251970050

There aren't any volcanoes in my province, nor known earthquake faults, and we only get a typhoon here once every ten years or so on average (though that may change thanks to the global climate getting warmer.) 2013 wasn't a very good year though: we had a pretty strong temblor in October followed by a category 5 super-typhoon three weeks later. No damage at our place from either one, though the typhoon knocked a neighbor's outhouse over.

If you live in the US and want to scare yourself take a look at the Yellowstone supervolcano, two thirds of the National Park is in the caldera. It erupts about every 600,000 years and the last time was around 640,000 years ago.

Geologists don't worry that much about Yellowstone at the moment--its last minor eruption was over 70,000 years ago, and the hot spot has moved out of the thinner crust in the west and is now having to chew through the much thicker crust in the North American craton. Ignore what the Daily Fail and the like print about that. There are a lot of "supervolcanoes" around the world that are much more restless and scary, including some that are almost unknown in the Andes, the ones in New Zealand, or the one right next to Naples.

Video not available... maybe somebody put it on lbry.tv?

Looks like YouTube took down the video from the original post #1?

I looked at it yesterday no problems but today get a message saying that the Youtube video has been taken down.
Those tourists were lucky, those at White Island unlucky, although there is some discussion as to whether anyone
should have been on the Island that day, with a high level of tremor being recorded for the previous day or so. Raoul
Isl;and was the same, many small quakes occurring so one of the team went down to crater to check lake water
termperatures. He was caught out by the hydro-thermal explosion and his remains have never been found.

My guess is that they're going to try and monetize the video to news outlets instead of having it on YT.

Too bad about the horses, too. People are saying they had to be left behind on the island, and only a handful were later rescued--thirty out of three hundred or something like that.

Someone else on YT got their video and wiped out the sound: https://youtu.be/PkuvQtwRTPA The video starts out as a nice ride down to the lake on horseback, but then cuts to the guides dragging them back up the trail as fast as they can when the actual eruption began on the shoreline.

At the same time, someone on the crater rim got much better video of the start of the eruption, but then ruined it with the stupid flame graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHRqKMnEs0c

Here's a video from yesterday, shot from a helicopter: https://youtu.be/lFzQPkeuTXA

Maybe it is not original post from YouTube, but it is also worth to see: https://lbry.tv/@PhilippineRetirement:2 ... anic-ash:4

Video in my first post is back up and working--maybe Youtube took it down automatically because they used copyrighted music for a few seconds?

Yes, I just watched the link from the first post and it was working. There is the same video (I think) under this link too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDaeled1N8c

Some people are so attracted to volcanoes that they ignore all the risks.

I'm just waiting for someone to take a selfie with a pyroclastic flow approaching at 200 mph behind them...

http://citationpod.com/episode/self-related-deaths/

I proposed to my wife at a resort on the banks of the Taal lake, town of Talisay in 2015. We rode horses up the volcano and witnessed the steam rising from the upper volcanic lake. I suppose that platform is spread out all over Laguna and Batangas in a zillion pieces of volcanic ash.

Stevo wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:16 pm I'm just waiting for someone to take a selfie with a pyroclastic flow approaching at 200 mph behind them...

http://citationpod.com/episode/self-related-deaths/

You may find this interesting - https://www.forbes.com/sites/robinandre ... -kill-you/

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