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)
[2] 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 or Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai's 2022 eruption are sourced from the LaMEVE database (British Geological Survey © UKRI), https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/vogripa/view/c..., Used with Permission
[3] 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.
[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.
[6] Vedur.is / Iceland Met Office
[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