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dalton99a
(81,570 posts)hunter
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csziggy
(34,137 posts)I watched that video yesterday and it was from a tidal bore that is well known as "The Bono." The video of the woman and the men with the selfie sticks I saw was all in a language I don't recognize but she kept saying "bono bono." I tried to find it but found many other videos of a tidal bore which seems to be in the same area.
Ah - seems to be in Indonesia:
irisblue
(33,023 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,195 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)Put up for clicks. That is not the volcano explosion and the "tsunami" is not the tsunami from it. It's all assembled from existing footage of other things.
Videos with a computer voice narration like that are almost always outright fakes.
hunter
(38,326 posts)--Jonathan Swift
I suppose the effect here is advertising revenue for the creators of these videos, but there are those who seek longer term profits, both monetary and political, in the general confusion.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)They said no tsunamis expected in California. So, never mind.
It's hard, though, when people jump on stories with whatever shows up and don't check the sources. Not everything on YouTube is reliable.
paleotn
(17,959 posts)Tonga and the rest are part of a volcanic arc associated the subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Australian Plate. Very much volcanically active. Nearby island of Tofua contains a beautiful, water filled caldera. Dangerous but fascinating stuff.
https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=243060
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)had a video up this week showing there are currently 49 active volcanoes around the world. These are volcanoes which are actually erupting
There are lots of others that are considered active because the potential is there for an immenent eruption.
Some of them of course really never stop; they run all the time like a broken pipe.
We became obsessed with Iceland and were sad when it shut itself down