Name: Why Indonesia is Always Erupting
Uploaded: 2022-01-03T11:47:17.000Z
Duration: 11 min 27 s
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- These are all of the volcanoes in the world.

You've got this big strip here in Ethiopia,

and a long strip down the west coast of the Americas.

But there's one spot that has more volcanoes

than anywhere else on Earth, right here in Indonesia.

And it's where the majority of volcanic activity

the beauty of all of these blasts is taking place.

I want to show you some of the most striking volcanoes

because I want to try to better understand

why they are so deadly and why millions of people

live right in the shadow of these sleeping dragons.

Okay. Let's quickly go over why volcanoes exist.

Maybe you've heard this before, but I'm going to try

It's important to remember that the ground

under your feet is actually a giant plate

one of many plates floating around on molten lava.

When these plates move into each other, they make mountains.

When they spread apart, they make underwater volcanoes

that cool and turn into rocks and we call them islands.

- [Narrator] A whole series of volcanoes begins to pop up

along the edge of the continent, parallel to the trench.

- So the real reason why this one strip of land in Indonesia

has so many volcanoes is because this plate

you're going to see a lot of this dark green

But all of this, each one of these little dots,

And they're right in the strike zone of this volcano.

Volcanoes kill people when they suddenly erupt,

This huge column of ash and gases first goes up

As it falls it gains momentum on these steep mountain sides.

And eventually that will slam into villages

up to three kilometers in radius from the volcano.

If you were standing in the way of one of these massive

And then if it rains, it gets really bad,

because the ash and the rain make these horrifying

and flood villages all around the region.

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