A major explosive volcanic eruption is ongoing which is the largest of 2026, and now the volcano producing it has received a badass new name straight out of Greek mythology; The Titan Ridge Volcano. Located in the Central Bismarck Sea of Papua New Guinea, this volcano is currently producing its largest eruption on record, having already generated abundant pumice rafts and an eruption plume that rose up to 14,000 feet above the ocean surface. Thumbnail Photo Credit: NASA Worldview, EOSDIS Worldview, (Satellite imagery: NOAA-20 / VIIRS), (Thermal signatures: Terra / MODIS, NOAA-20 / VIIRS, Aqua / MODIS), at https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/. The brightness of this image was increased from the original satellite imagery. NASA EOSDIS Worldview satellite imagery Copyright © 2012-2026 United States Government as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. All Rights Reserved. Associated license for NASA EOSDIS Worldview: https://github.com/nasa-gibs/worldview/blob/main/LICENSE.md We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). We acknowledge the use of imagery from the NASA Worldview application (https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/), part of the NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at [email protected] and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): Public Domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Sources/Citations: [1] NASA Worldview, EOSDIS Worldview, (Satellite imagery: Terra / MODIS, NOAA-20 / VIIRS, Aqua / MODIS), (Thermal signatures: Terra / MODIS, NOAA-20 / VIIRS, Aqua / MODIS), at https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/ [2] Rabaul Volcano Observatory [3] Knafelc J, Gust D, Bryan SE, Anderson M and Cathey HE (2022) Petrogenesis of Havre Volcano in the Kermadec Arc: 2012 Eruption of a Chemically Homogeneous Rhyolite. Front. Earth Sci. 10:886897. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.886897, CC BY 4.0. [4] Maeno, F., Kaneko, T., Ichihara, M. et al. Seawater-magma interactions sustained the high column during the 2021 phreatomagmatic eruption of Fukutoku-Oka-no-Ba. Commun Earth Environ 3, 260 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00594-4, CC BY 4.0. [5] Bryan, Scott & Cook, Alex & Evans, Jason & Hebden, Kerry & Hurrey, Lucy & Colls, Peter & Jell, John & Weatherley, Dion & Firn, Jennifer. (2012). Rapid, Long-Distance Dispersal by Pumice Rafting. PloS one. 7. e40583. 10.1371/journal.pone.0040583. CC BY 4.0. [6] Knafelc, J., Bryan, S.E., Jones, M.W.M. et al. Havre 2012 pink pumice is evidence of a short-lived, deep-sea, magnetite nanolite-driven explosive eruption. Commun Earth Environ 3, 19 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00355-3, CC BY 4.0. [7] Knafelc J, Gust D, Bryan SE, Anderson M and Cathey HE (2022) Petrogenesis of Havre Volcano in the Kermadec Arc: 2012 Eruption of a Chemically Homogeneous Rhyolite. Front. Earth Sci. 10:886897. doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.886897, CC BY 4.0. [8] 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 Youtube.com/GeologyHub on Oct 5th, 2022. [9] 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 from the Titan Ridge Volcano are sourced from the LaMEVE database (British Geological Survey © UKRI), https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/vogripa/view/controller.cfc?method=lameve, Used with Permission [10] NOAA 0:00 Major Ongoing Eruption 0:45 Titan Ridge Volcano 1:26 Basis for the Name 2:19 Eruption Start 2:40 Pumice Rafts 3:03 Comparison Chart 3:27 VEI Speculation 4:04 2 Vents