Comments by "Jake Alter" (@jakealter5504) on "Top 10 Deadliest Volcano Disasters In History" video.

  1. It depends on how far you are from it and how fast it’s moving
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  2.  @cathanodwyer5672  and the theory that toba nearly wiped out humanity has been discredited
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  3.  @nox4298  as far as I know there’s only one volcanic event that has actually been definitively linked to an extinction event, that being the Siberian Traps flood basalt eruption (can’t get worse than the end Permian extinction)
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  4.  @bardthenascarfanaticdragon  in terms of death toll, Vesuvius and/or campi flegrei could easily do it since both volcanoes can produce eruptions that rate between vei 5-7. Other than Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei, I’d say a full scale eruption from Lake Toba, Yellowstone, or Long Valley would be much worse but they are far less likely to happen any time soon (Campi and Vesuvius are more likely to erupt in the relatively near future)
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  5.  @bardthenascarfanaticdragon  it’s in the bay of Naples, it’s a massive volcano and part of Naples actually lies in the caldera. Campi Flegrei is also known as The Phlegraean Fields. Naples is unfortunately caught between two very dangerous volcanoes and both are capable of easily destroying the city
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  6. They say that toba likely wasn’t the cause. The Siberian Traps, on the other hand, did likely trigger the largest mass extinction event in earth’s history
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  7.  @frankmaeder4358  it wasn’t just linked, the Siberian Traps was what triggered it
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  8. Especially since Tonga was actually louder than Krakatoa was in 1883
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  9.  @nox4298  the eruption was still massive though, it was the largest explosive eruption within the last 25 million years
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  10. I’ve been there several years ago and walked up Vesuvius, it definitely gives some perspective on just how dangerous Vesuvius really is
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  11.  @BigFella117  Vesuvius is generally considered to be one of the most dangerous volcanoes (if not the most dangerous volcano) on the planet due to its long history of exceptionally violent eruptions and the fact that it has the highest concentration of people that live within its danger zone out of any volcano on earth (I believe that at least 3 million people are within reach of Vesuvius)
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  12.  @BigFella117  Yellowstone is more dangerous in the long term but Vesuvius would be worse in the short term. I can still think of one type of eruption that would even put Yellowstone to shame, that being a repeat of the Siberian Traps eruption
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  13.  @KRDPMinistry  it is the worst in us history but that’s because none of the more dangerous volcanoes in the continental United States that are close to populated areas have erupted recently, that’s why people are so worried about the potential destruction that Mount Rainier will cause next time it goes off
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  14. Rainier would be much worse
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  15.  @bardthenascarfanaticdragon  that’s just it, rainier doesn’t actually need to erupt in order to do damage. All that’s needed is for a large enough earthquake to destabilize part of the volcano which would cause a massive debris flow that could go all the way to puget sound. That would take the debris flow through Seattle and Tacoma. Considering how Rainier is still an active volcano, it most definitely will erupt again at some point. Said eruption wouldn’t need to be as large as the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens to do catastrophic damage, it could easily do the same thing as Nevado Del Ruiz did in 1985 (which was a vei 3 eruption that caused the armero tragedy) but even worse
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  16. And apparently Vesuvius did do the majority of what was in the movie
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  17.  @justinmosher8163  Krakatoa only killed around half of the people that Tambora did even if you go by the lowest estimate for Tambora
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  18. It likely was recorded since other civilizations did record atmospheric anomalies around the time of the Minoan eruption and it probably was recorded by the Minoans
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  19.  @jackwatson3944  it’s more likely that we do have them but can’t translate them right now
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  20. Toba has Yellowstone beat
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  21.  @aron1332  and larger than the last three super eruptions from Yellowstone, the Toba eruption is actually believed to be the largest explosive eruption to have occurred in the last 25 million years
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  22. Probably didn’t include that since it was two volcanoes that did the damage
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  23.  @joshuabowen6919  true. It’s just that the only type of volcanic eruption that is generally associated with any type of major extinction event is a flood basalt and they are generally much larger than the eruption that happened at Toba
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  24. That was in pre history
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  25. Pinatubo only killed 600-800 people, these volcanoes killed thousands of people
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  26.  Melon crusher  it wouldn’t, there have been multiple eruptions that were vei 6 and 7 within the last 10,000 years that were larger
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  27.  @aron1332  your forgot santorini (Minoan Eruption), and crater lake, both produced vei 7 eruptions
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  28.  @aron1332  ok
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  29. It’s because Kilauea has only had one eruption in the 1700’s that killed people (around 3,000) and that’s still only half of the people killed by number 10
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  30.  @aron1332  or the deadliest
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  31.  @WiLDCHiLD.  not even close
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  32.  @WiLDCHiLD.  57 people getting killed during the eruption of Mount Saint Helens is no where close to the number of people killed by these eruptions as they ranged from killing hundreds to tens of thousands, making them far deadlier
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  33. You might want to change that to grimsvoltin and laki since grimsvoltin was in the same country and was erupting at the same time as the laki fissure., hell, the laki fissure was actually part of the grimsvoltin volcanic system
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  34.  @VictorEMusique  grimsvoltin was actually erupting before the laki fissure formed and was still erupting after laki stopped, that makes it difficult to determine which of the two eruptions was responsible for the damage
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  35.  @VictorEMusique  probably more informed
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  36.  @KRDPMinistry  it didn’t because the 1980 eruption only killed 57 people while all of the eruptions on the list killed thousands of people
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  37.  @KRDPMinistry  you should look up the past eruptions of The Phlegraean Fields, they can be very massive (larger than the 1815 eruption of Tambora). Scientists are worried that The Phlegraean Fields could potentially become a super volcano)
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  38.  @KRDPMinistry  it only had one eruption that was deadlier than the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens and that was in the 1790’s, well before Hawaii became a US State. even then it doesn’t compare to the eruptions on this list since it killed 400+ people while the ones on this list were either much larger and killed way more people
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  39. They probably didn’t mention laki because it wasn’t just laki that caused that, grimsvolten was also erupting at the same time
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  40.  @stephenmico6442  they say either a high vei 4 or a low vei 5. It does have one notable feature though, it took the record of loudest noise ever heard from Krakatoa
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  41. The toba catastrophe theory hasn’t been proven and they said within recorded history
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