30 Photos That Show The Terrifying Power Of The Taal Volcano Which Just Erupted In The Philippines

Bascinfaying!

Agree!

For better for worst till death do as part.

Scarry as hell, or Hades. Here is the truth behind the notion of hell, not on Earth, but in it. We are tiny, unimportant specks of matter if we take a look at us compared to a grander scale of things. And yet so precious.

Wow! Now I see it too

Why, yes, it does! A very, VERY upset dragon... Oh dear, that island is in a LOT of trouble... O___o

Wow! You've right!

Your right

Yeah! Even scary too!

:-O

Red lightning is being seen through a cloud of ash.

the flash

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Me either, & I've seen all kinds of colours: blue, green, yellow, even a very pale purple. The "usual" white, sure. Most lightning seems to actually have some colour, but it's SO bright & happens so FAST, it's hard to catch the colours as anything other than a flash. I've been lucky enough to see actual St. Elmo's fire run along the metal fittings on our University building--it really IS bright acid green.The yellow & blue was sheet-lightning during a hot summer night; we hoped for rain--it didn't come. The purple; during an INSANE storm that wrecked trees, cars, crops, 1" hail (doesn't sound so big... until you get shot by a hundred or more of the things). No red, yet. I'm guessing whatever elements are in the air the charge is going through might change the colour, or what the lightning is striking & burning up? A strike's supposedly hotter than the surface of the SUN. I dunno-I'm an artist, not a scientist! AWESOME photo, though!

Try to Google 'Volcanic Lightning' and you can see several red lightnings. Really terrifying thou.

Neither do I! This is something we don't see every day, a red lightning!

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Yes, one volcano spewing gases and clouds of ashes can do WAY more damage than humans could ever hope to do.

Yes, but only for a few years, like when Pinatubo went up in 1991. It would take a hundred volcanoes of Taal's smallish size to slow Climate Change--for example-enough to make a difference, & then it would MAYBE buy us time of only a few extra years to get our s**t together. We still have to stop wrecking habitats, burning fossil fuels, over-fishing & polluting the seas with our trash (like the cast off nets that become floating "islands" of death for sea-life), over-using land to feed livestock instead of people, get our over-use of water-resources under control that suck aquifers dry that cause land subsidence (once that happens, aquifers CAN'T re-fill) & oh, those massive fires... those pump COLOSSAL amounts of Co2 into the air. And, just to burst your little bubble--volcanoes emit Co2 as well. The cooling effect comes from the material they eject into the air. Once it settles, the Co2 is still there to f**k with us. WE cause Climate Change, not volcanoes. Enjoy your wake up call, silly Climate Denier.

No wonder! In Norway have lots of bad weather, when the volcano erupt! But other places have same weather, for sure!

Gaia's air conditioning

Volcanic ash also contributes to Lahar flows and acid rain. So there's that.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/06/06/how-much-co2-does-a-single-volcano-emit/#7ab3eb815cbf

Which one is more terrifying?

I was forced to watch cats by my fam... *throws up*

It sure does.

An amazing photo.

The movie or the Broadway show? ;)