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volcanoes they’re terrifying deadly and
will stop at nothing to destroy you your
town and everyone you love according to
various disaster movies from the 90s
gallons of water being dropped over this
entire area the entire areas
steam that is coming off of this thing
is unbelievable welcome to watchmojo.com
down the five most fascinating facts
that you probably didn’t know about
volcanoes one of mother nature’s
scariest creations
number five Jupiter’s moon Io has some
Beast volcanoes before we get to our own
planet let’s travel into the vast
blackness of space and visit IO the
innermost moon of Jupiter IO is the most
geologically active object in the entire
solar system complete with over 400
volcanoes some with rings the size of
California these volcanoes are insanely
hot with temperatures reaching 1800
Kelvin or about 1500 degrees Celsius to
put this in perspective the ground
around the volcanic vents literally
sizzles from the immense heat these
plumes of sulfur lava can rise over 300
miles into the air and can even be
observed through the Hubble Space
Telescope number for more than 80
percent of the Earth’s surface is a
volcanic origin ancient volcanic
activity played a large role in shaping
our planet into what it is and how it
appears today this 80% accounts for all
of the Earth’s surface including both
above and below sea level gas emissions
from volcanoes throughout millions and
millions of years helped form the
Earth’s earliest oceans and even its
atmosphere which as you probably know is
kind of important for life life
throughout the billions of years that
Earth has existed volcanic eruptions
have also helped shape the planets
landscape including it plateaus
mountains and gorgeous vistas eruptions
continued create landmass in fact as one
did near Nishan Oshima Island in Japan
from 2013 to 2015
number three active volcanoes could
power cities the idea of generating
power using the heat of the earth called
geothermal energy is nothing new so why
not use the hottest parts of the earth
to do it drill holes down so this
is it water about two kilometres
underneath my feet the steam enters up
and powers these huge great turbines
here experts are now viewing active
volcanoes as potential sources of
renewable energy and efforts to harness
their power are already underway Hawaii
has ambitious plans to become 100%
renewable by 2045 and they’re planning
on using their vast wealth of volcanoes
to achieve that goal some questioned the
safety of building a power plant on a
volcano but engineers insist they be
able to tell well in advance of an
eruption was imminent it’s probably
worth the risk anyway this new
technology could provide 30% more power
than the typical geothermal wells that
we use today plus harnessing the power
of a volcano is undeniably cool in a
Bond villain sort of way will erupt
number two volcanoes can literally
appear overnight while it is true that
most volcanoes take thousands of years
to form some actually do appear in the
blink of an eye at least in geological
terms parícutin a volcano located in
Mexico randomly appeared in a farmer’s
cornfield on February 20th 1943 and
within a week it was already five
stories tall
in 1952 nine years after it literally
emerged from the ground it reached its
peak height of 424 meters or just over
1390 feet so when you go to bed tonight
just remember that when you wake up
there may be a volcano growing in your
living room sweet dreams
number one we’d be in a lot of trouble
of Yellowstone Caldera erupted the
Yellowstone Caldera is a beast that’s
been sleeping for 640 thousand years not
extinct just dormant let’s hope she
doesn’t wake up
granted scientists claim the chances of
interrupting are slim but it would
immediately result in ninety thousand
deaths across the US and leave a 10 foot
layer of ash within a thousand
kilometers of the site not only would
people be buried in burning ash but it
would also disrupt electronics block up
the Sun and cool temperatures this in
turn would destroy crops and cause a
worldwide food shortage while some
geologists claim that it wouldn’t be
nearly as dramatic as that the ash would
still disrupt communications shut down
air travel and block water lines and
that’s the best case scenario on the
plus side the various reports you may
have heard that Yellowstone is overdue
for an eruption are according to
Yellowstone Volcano Observatory and the
US Geological Survey false so are you
fascinated or terrified by volcanoes and
what do you think of the possibility
that they could be used for energy for
more world shaping top 10s and sulfur
dioxide spewing top fives published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com Oh
sulfur dioxide you saw the same thing in
the Philippines on Mount Pinatubo before
she blew this mountains are taking on
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you
volcanoes they’re terrifying deadly and
will stop at nothing to destroy you your
town and everyone you love according to
various disaster movies from the 90s
gallons of water being dropped over this
entire area the entire areas
steam that is coming off of this thing
is unbelievable welcome to watchmojo.com
down the five most fascinating facts
that you probably didn’t know about
volcanoes one of mother nature’s
scariest creations
number five Jupiter’s moon Io has some
Beast volcanoes before we get to our own
planet let’s travel into the vast
blackness of space and visit IO the
innermost moon of Jupiter IO is the most
geologically active object in the entire
solar system complete with over 400
volcanoes some with rings the size of
California these volcanoes are insanely
hot with temperatures reaching 1800
Kelvin or about 1500 degrees Celsius to
put this in perspective the ground
around the volcanic vents literally
sizzles from the immense heat these
plumes of sulfur lava can rise over 300
miles into the air and can even be
observed through the Hubble Space
Telescope number for more than 80
percent of the Earth’s surface is a
volcanic origin ancient volcanic
activity played a large role in shaping
our planet into what it is and how it
appears today this 80% accounts for all
of the Earth’s surface including both
above and below sea level gas emissions
from volcanoes throughout millions and
millions of years helped form the
Earth’s earliest oceans and even its
atmosphere which as you probably know is
kind of important for life life
throughout the billions of years that
Earth has existed volcanic eruptions
have also helped shape the planets
landscape including it plateaus
mountains and gorgeous vistas eruptions
continued create landmass in fact as one
did near Nishan Oshima Island in Japan
from 2013 to 2015
number three active volcanoes could
power cities the idea of generating
power using the heat of the earth called
geothermal energy is nothing new so why
not use the hottest parts of the earth
to do it drill holes down so this
is it water about two kilometres
underneath my feet the steam enters up
and powers these huge great turbines
here experts are now viewing active
volcanoes as potential sources of
renewable energy and efforts to harness
their power are already underway Hawaii
has ambitious plans to become 100%
renewable by 2045 and they’re planning
on using their vast wealth of volcanoes
to achieve that goal some questioned the
safety of building a power plant on a
volcano but engineers insist they be
able to tell well in advance of an
eruption was imminent it’s probably
worth the risk anyway this new
technology could provide 30% more power
than the typical geothermal wells that
we use today plus harnessing the power
of a volcano is undeniably cool in a
Bond villain sort of way will erupt
number two volcanoes can literally
appear overnight while it is true that
most volcanoes take thousands of years
to form some actually do appear in the
blink of an eye at least in geological
terms parícutin a volcano located in
Mexico randomly appeared in a farmer’s
cornfield on February 20th 1943 and
within a week it was already five
stories tall
in 1952 nine years after it literally
emerged from the ground it reached its
peak height of 424 meters or just over
1390 feet so when you go to bed tonight
just remember that when you wake up
there may be a volcano growing in your
living room sweet dreams
number one we’d be in a lot of trouble
of Yellowstone Caldera erupted the
Yellowstone Caldera is a beast that’s
been sleeping for 640 thousand years not
extinct just dormant let’s hope she
doesn’t wake up
granted scientists claim the chances of
interrupting are slim but it would
immediately result in ninety thousand
deaths across the US and leave a 10 foot
layer of ash within a thousand
kilometers of the site not only would
people be buried in burning ash but it
would also disrupt electronics block up
the Sun and cool temperatures this in
turn would destroy crops and cause a
worldwide food shortage while some
geologists claim that it wouldn’t be
nearly as dramatic as that the ash would
still disrupt communications shut down
air travel and block water lines and
that’s the best case scenario on the
plus side the various reports you may
have heard that Yellowstone is overdue
for an eruption are according to
Yellowstone Volcano Observatory and the
US Geological Survey false so are you
fascinated or terrified by volcanoes and
what do you think of the possibility
that they could be used for energy for
more world shaping top 10s and sulfur
dioxide spewing top fives published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com Oh
sulfur dioxide you saw the same thing in
the Philippines on Mount Pinatubo before
she blew this mountains are taking on
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