The Taal volcano just produced its largest eruption in 5 years, generating pyroclastic surges and generating a 2100 meter high eruption plume as the result of a large explosion. This occurred as the last of 4 particular explosions which occurred between October 25th and October 26th of 2025. Yet, despite how scary footage of these eruptions might seem, no one was harmed, and in fact, decreasing activity is quite likely in the future per the opinion of the geologist who wrote this video. Note: The 4 phreatic/phreatomagmatic eruptions which occurred were not large volcanic eruptions in the traditional sense; instead they when combined represented the largest eruptive sequence of the dozens which have occurred at Taal since the end of January 2020. Thumbnail Photo Credit: Frame from a video by Phivolcs, Posted on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1154823836240857. If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) 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/ Sources/Citations: [1] Phivolcs [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 are sourced from the LaMEVE database (British Geological Survey © UKRI), https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/vogripa/view/controller.cfc?method=lameve, 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 Youtube.com/GeologyHub on Oct 5th, 2022. 0:00 Taal Erupts 1:38 Phreatomagmatic Eruptions 3:15 Current Situation 4:46 Off Limit Areas