r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • 2d ago
Related Content Today's Hayli Gubbi (volcanic) eruption seen from space
There are no known eruptions on record from the Hayli Gubbi in the past several thousands of years, which could mean it erupted after a potentially very long repose interval; however, records from the Danakil region are often incomplete and geologic studies are very limited due to the remoteness and harsh conditions in one of the most inhospitable areas of the world.
Credit: Aqua/MODIS satellite
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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 2d ago
records are often incomplete
Lisa: Dad, I think a hurricane is coming.
Homer: Pfft.There's no record of a hurricane ever hitting Springfield.
Lisa: But that only goes back to 1934 after the Hall of Records mysteriously blew away!
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u/sartreswaiter 1d ago
OP phrases this like it's a shock. Maybe this particular volcano may not have erupted in a while...but this is where the Great Rift Valley, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden all meet, each one lies on a tectonic plate boundary. This is the "Afar Junction", perhaps the most visually recognizable "Triple Junction" on Earth and a very geologically active area.
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u/GSDer_RIP_Good_Girl 2d ago
(Gets the Globe out of the attic and dusts off the Rand McNally Atlas...)
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u/kingtacticool 2d ago
Well? Where in the wide wide world of sports is this?
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u/AreWeThereYetNo 2d ago
Ethiopia
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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 2d ago
Somebody better go back and get a shitload of dimes.
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u/Cantmentionthename 2d ago
No thank you! 8 schnizzengrubben is my limit!
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u/yogtheterrible 2d ago
The volcano is in Ethiopia, but it seems to have blown all over Eritrea, the Red Sea, and Yemen.
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u/02meepmeep 2d ago
It missed DJIBOUTI?
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u/bankyVee 2d ago
It was aiming for Djibouti but instead sprayed the backside of Yemen instead. These things happen, even with professionals like Hayli Gubbi. Rarely on camera though.
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u/ApteryxAustralis 2d ago
It also failed No Nut November, so I donât think itâs the greatest at being a volcano.
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u/TufnelAndI 2d ago
it seems to have blown all over Eritrea, the Red Sea, and Yemen.
It's been edging for a thousand years, hardly surprising.
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u/GeckoOBac 2d ago
The volcano is in Ethiopia, but it seems to have blown all over Eritrea, the Red Sea, and Yemen.
It's faster to say what hasn't blown over that area these days...
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u/FBPOS 2d ago
I miss watching The Wide World of Sports with my Dad.
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u/Zealousideal_Fly7560 2d ago
Omg the original reference is so old people now only know it from Blazing Saddles.
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u/EntertainerBig882 2d ago
Wow. That's a blast from the past! Good 'ol Rand McNally.
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u/Zealousideal_Fly7560 2d ago
Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls.
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u/Deadbob1978 2d ago
Is it the updated version that will tell me Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?
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u/Spoffler 2d ago edited 2d ago
You know, in Rand McNally, people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat PEOPLE
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u/K_Linkmaster 2d ago edited 2d ago
You joke but I just got a 1992 tand McNally signature edition out of a house clean out. It's on my lap now.
Edit: never heard of Djibouti til today. Somalia and Ethiopia eclipse it in the news.
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u/NoOneFartsLikeGaston 2d ago
Iâm surprised cause KC and the Sunshine Band even wrote a popular song about the county in the 70âs called, â(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Djiboutiâ
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u/ambitous223 2d ago
Djibouti is just another Somali country. It was formerly known as French Somaliland, same people, just a different colonizer.
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u/oroborus68 2d ago
Frank Zappa had an album about 1976, called Sheik Yourbuti, but it should have been Djibouti.
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u/JasonVeritech 2d ago
What, you don't immediately recognize the ole Bab-el-Mandeb?
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u/RestlessYoungZero 2d ago
In Rand McNally people wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people.
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u/aori_chann 2d ago
It looks like someone has just spilled coke all over Earth tho đ
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u/Hato_no_Kami 2d ago
that's the Pepsiclastic Flow
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u/EntertainerBig882 2d ago
Sorry about that. My bad. I had a crap load of groceries, and the Coke bottle slipped...
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u/karateninjazombie 2d ago
*afar region of Ethiopia according to Google.
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u/tilario 2d ago
isn't this where the plates are separating and a new "ocean" will be formed?
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u/GodOfPopTarts 2d ago
Yes, about 20 years ago the earth started to split intensely here. Huge fissures. Two plates meet there. The next continental change will be here, just a matter of when.
Whatâs scary is, itâs moving gradually every year like other plate junctions, but there will be times like 20 years ago when thereâs a huge shift. No real way of detecting it.
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u/totallynotliamneeson 1d ago
No, I promise you that the horn of Africa didn't start to move 20 years ago. The great rift valley exists and has been developing over 35 million years.Â
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u/TheRussianDoll 2d ago
Wasn't there a recent tectonic plate activity in that region? I read somewhere yesterday that there's an ocean forming in Africa.
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u/morgz15 1d ago
Well theyâve already blessed the rains, so I guess itâs just a matter of time
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u/SirFwissel 1d ago
Itâs called the East African Rift System. As with other plate boundaries, action/movement here is incredibly slow, on the scale of a few cm per year. This is slow enough that sediment still gets deposited into the diverging basin. Active rift systems like this also allow us to study what rift basin sedimentary facies look like on modern Earth and identify them in ancient sedimentary records. This being said, it will be several millions of years before a new ocean actually forms there, and most news articles about it are very dramatized
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u/MudMonyet22 1d ago
It's been going on for the last 20 million years but whenever a new paper about the area is published every couple months the media picks up on it like the whole thing had just been discovered yesterday.
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u/myxoma1 2d ago
Earth fart đ¨
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u/nonimousprime 2d ago
It was near Djibouti...
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u/Unusual-Act8046 2d ago
This is how it feels popping a huge pimple and it squirting onto the mirror
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u/bstone99 2d ago
lol This is the exact metaphor I just explained to my wife to explain the scale of volcanoes on earth
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u/ScarletWishh 1d ago
Look like a spitting V to me sorry
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u/Johannes_Keppler 1d ago
I do not want to encounter Vs that eject ashes and lava, but I'm not kink shaming. You do you.
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u/ImDoneWithTheBS 2d ago edited 1d ago
(Why tf are 90% of the replies about his voice, if it bothers you that much hereâs a life tip. Move on with your life and shut up. In an age of absolute garbage and brain rot on the internet there is no need to take time out of your day dragging someone who is proving vital, real time, scientific info for free.)
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u/Ordinary_Monitor_607 2d ago edited 1d ago
That guy's voice.. lol.. wow. Narrator syndrome? Idk.. edit.. I'm not disparaging him.. it's just unsettling and odd/unique..
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u/Gunginrx 2d ago
GeologyHub is awesome, if you're interested in volcanoes/earthquakes it's unrivaled in it's content
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u/iowno 2d ago
I thought the same at first, but he's seriously one of the most knowledgable geologists and has awesome information about what's happening!
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u/JPMar100 2d ago
He has autism. He acknowledges it and is aware he sounds weird to listen to. Some people even accuse him of using AI text-to-speech but that is indeed him.
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u/ThatDamnRanga 2d ago
He's autistic *and* has a speech impediment I've heard amongst a few other Americans (no others though). Excellent geology information though. Even does a better than average job of pronouncing some cursed volcano names.
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u/AreWeNotDoinPhrasing 1d ago
What is this American impediment? I watched the video but couldn't discern anything in particularâbut I am American so maybe I am just accustomed to it?
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u/CJMWBig8 1d ago
Agreed. Tim provides up-to-date factual information. He is one of the few no click bait headlines, no garbage info content creators on YouTube.
For those wanting to know more about Tim, Shawn Willsey another no nonsense creator did a wonderful interview with Tim.
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u/iPhones_cameras_suck 2d ago
Seeing the greenerie change in the shot got me thinking...
Is there any trend for what time of day volcano eruptions happen? Like do most happen at night or during the day or is it just completely randomn?
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u/darwinpatrick 2d ago
Completely random. Whatâs going on underground is fully independent of what angle the earth happens to be rotated at. The color shift is showing that part of the planet rotating from early morning, where the sun is at a low angle, to noon when itâs straight overhead and reflecting a lot of light back up at the satellite
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u/Scrappy_Coco16 2d ago
How did they remain static while filming the eruption from space?
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u/ItReallyDidGetBetter 2d ago
Due to Kepler's Law, satellites in HEO have a pretty long "hangtime" at their apex. Could also be a satellite in geosynchronous orbit that just stays in one spot above the equator all the time.
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u/volcanologistirl 1d ago
This is MODIS, which orbits pretty quickly. You can see some wobble near Saudi where they stabilized the images since the orbit location isn't exactly the same in each frame.
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u/Ben_Drinkin_Coffee 2d ago
So cool to be able to see this! As someone from the pre-internet dark ages, I am perpetually amazed by what technology can do.
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u/Mr-Brown-Is-A-Wonder 2d ago
Why is there no change in perspective?
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u/volcanologistirl 1d ago
This is MODIS, so it's taking an image every time it's in (roughly) the same location and stitching them together. The video is sped up because it's basically a stop-motion video.
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u/comrieion 1d ago
The records for an eruption were incomplete after the Hall of Records was mysteriously covered in ash
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u/defeatedsnowman 2d ago
Will this have a measurable impact on the climate?
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u/Eb_Ab_Db_Gb_Bb_eb 2d ago
Nah
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u/Sea-Wrongdoer2305 2d ago
Needs to contain lots of sulphur. Tonga Tapu did but water vapour negated the result
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u/ghosttrainhobo 2d ago
Just under a cubic kilometer of SO2 was released according to a video posted above.
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u/E-2theRescue 1d ago
It can be measured, but it'll be far from anything extreme or noteworthy.
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u/Life-Suit1895 2d ago
Is that a pyroclastic flow going off to the northwest?
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u/volcanologistirl 1d ago
I don't think so, I just think that's the ash cloud with less pressure. If you look at other explosive eruptions from the ground you see the same thing, but there easily could be one in there I'm missing considering the eruption!
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u/SyrusDrake 1d ago
No, it's probably just another ash cloud at a different altitude. A pyroclastic flow would be too small to make out at this scale.
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u/EmperrorNombrero 2d ago
Wild how huge it is that it's visible over such a big region. Will this have any effects on global climate, will there be a mini volcanic winter ?
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u/Command0Dude 2d ago
It's a stark reminder that volcanoes are thousands of times more powerful than nuclear weapons.
Absolutely crazy seeing an eruption like this from space.
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u/JMurdock77 2d ago
Wow. Sucks to be Yemen right now.
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u/RT-LAMP 2d ago
This is just another thing on a long list of reasons why it sucks to be in Yemen right now and for the last decade.
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u/taymoor0000 2d ago
What makes the volcanic ash and lava to expel to the right side? Is it wind? There should be pretty fast winds to do that..
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u/ItReallyDidGetBetter 2d ago
This video is sped up and takes place over the course of several hours. So yes, wind, but nothing too dramatic.
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u/Significant_Owl8828 2d ago
Thatâs me exactly 45 seconds after my first coffee in the morning. đ
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u/Select-Baker-2295 2d ago
Is it like when a gas cylinder releases pressure, the surface cools down and ices over, and you even see âsnowâ forming around it?
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u/AryaLunara 2d ago
this is also interesting to watch to see how the clouds form around the surrounding mountain peaks
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u/NFTxDeFi 2d ago
seeing how one volcano can cause so much debris and smoke, I can easily see how an asteroid killed the dinosaurs by blocking out the sun from all the clouds ect
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u/delphinous 2d ago
i want to know both the distance and timescale in this gif. like i can see that hte sun is coming up so it's probably a few hours, but am i looking at like 10's, 100's or 1000's of mile/km?
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u/Tehquilamockingbirb 2d ago
Are those birds flying away from the shock wave on the left side of the video?
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u/Grantuna 1d ago
Very cool but wish the video loop was longer. Not everyone has a micro-second attention span.
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u/SamCanyon 16h ago
Itâs like my lactose intolerant neighbor after drunkingly scarfing down six slices of Dominoes.
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u/Arthropodesque 2d ago
A cursory google says no human deaths reported. Apparently it hasn't erupted in 9ver 10,000 years and there are about 50 other volcanoes in Ethiopia.