The strongest volcanic eruption in more than a year just originated from the Ruang volcano, resulting in tsunami watches being posted. The volcano's lava dome exploded at approximately 7:40 pm local time, sending a plume of ash to an altitude of 21 kilometers or 69,000 feet. Two kilometer high lava fountains were subsequently generated alongside numerous pyroclastic flows, and now there is a chance that the nearby Tagulandang Island will be evacuated. Today's video discusses the ongoing eruption and the rapid escalation which occurred in the last 18 hours.

Thumbnail Photo Credit: Photo Credit: McGimsey, R. G., Alaska Volcano Observatory / U.S. Geological Survey, https://avo.alaska.edu/image/view/66321. This image was cropped, overlaid with text, and then overlaid with GeologyHub made graphics (the GeologyHub logo and the image border).

Note: This video's thumbnail image does not display the eruption of the Ruang volcano but rather the eruption of Alaska's Mount Spurr volcano in 1992. I chose this photo as it well showcases what a plinian eruption looks like.

I want to give a special thanks to INGVvulcani / INGV, Progetto UNO (@uno_progetto on Twitter), and Tullio Ricci for previously allowing me to use footage of a pyroclastic flow and associated small tsunami in my YouTube videos. The original video was posted on the INGVvulcani channel (   / ingvvulcani  ) at    • Stromboli, 12 ottobre 2022: colata di...   under a CC BY 3.0 license, YouTube Creative Commons.

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Sources/Citations:
[1] PVMBG (Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Bencana Geologi) (Indonesia)
[2] NASA Worldview, EOSDIS Worldview, (Satellite imagery: Aqua / MODIS), at https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
[3] Pranantyo, Ignatius & Heidarzadeh, Mohammad & Cummins, Philr. (2021). Complex tsunami hazards in eastern Indonesia from seismic and nonseismic sources: Deterministic modelling based on historical and modern data. Geoscience Letters. 8. 20. 10.1186/s4056202100190y. CC BY 4.0.
[4] INGVvulcani
[5] VEIs, dates/years, composition, tephra layer name, DRE estimates, and bulk tephra volume estimates for volcanic eruptions shown in this video which were assigned a VEI 4 or larger and are not Ruang's 2024 eruption are sourced from the LaMEVE database (British Geological Survey © UKRI), https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/vogripa/view/c..., Used with Permission
[6] Source of Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) methodology and criteria: Newhall, C. G., and Self, S. (1982), The volcanic explosivity index (VEI) an estimate of explosive magnitude for historical volcanism, J. Geophys. Res., 87(C2), 1231–1238, doi:10.1029/JC087iC02p01231. Accessed / Read by    / geologyhub   on Oct 5th, 2022

0:00 Tsunami Watch
0:24 Plinian Eruption
1:42 Analysis
3:21 Series of Events