Plinian Eruptions Are My Thing

Most famous volcano in the world! Very beautiful, very powerful. I'll fuckin' do it again. | They/Them | 17,000 | Stratavolcano | Volcano: 2, Pompeii and Herculaneum: 0

[catilinas]

one of the many cool things about the baiae underwater archeological park is that it very well could just emerge from the sea again. like it's not underwater because a volcanic eruption permanently changed the shape of the coast it's underwater because movement in the underlying magma chamber causes episodes of ground uplift or subsidence of up to like 10 metres. and the water is not very deep. it is only an underwater archeological park For Now

[vesuvius-official]

Let me introduce you sometime! Campi Flegrei is intimidating on the outside, but warm on the inside. <3

[vesuvius-official]

Meta post from the author time! I was lucky enough to get to visit Vesuvius yesterday and attempt to climb to the top. Unfortunately, due to physical limitations and time constraints, I wasn't able to make it all the way to the top. But I hope I get to try again someday with a little more time to go at my own pace. But Vesuvius is breathtaking. Such an amazing volcano!

[solarsyrup]

hey i hope this isn't a bad time but one billion points lava damage

[illustratus]

Ascent of Vesuvius by Horace Vernet

[toskarin]

why didn't they just leave pompeii when the volcano erupted? were they stupid?

[foone]

Fun fact: they did leave Pompeii! It's estimated that the population pre-eruption was something like 20,000, and the most likely number of dead in is in the range of 1,500-4,000. So most people just did leave Pompeii, it's just that not everyone left or could leave.

[fuckinnear]

[toskarin]

I'd have still left. the human body is capable of wonderful things in the face of danger

[crowteeth]

A lot of people died in the boats tho:/

[toskarin]

I would have paddled away quickly

[toskarin]

I take pretty hot baths so I think I'd be able to last a little longer than the average person

[demonicseries]

The scariest thing about pyroclastic flow is that if you can see it, no matter how far away it is, there is no possible way of surviving

[toskarin]

I've done incredible things. I think you'd be surprised.

[toskarin]

I know a lot about the volcano. they could learn much from me.

[slurpygunch]

you should teach them

[toskarin]

I will.

[toskarin]

everyone who has ever died from anything is an idiot. I wouldn't have done that.

[toskarin]

perhaps this could be chalked up to poor diet? I don't think explosions alone can do that.

[jumbleverse]

"everyone who has ever died from anything is an idiot."

have you maybe considered that people aren't immortal? you're gonna die eventually, be it old age, sickness, or me coming to fuckin' get you.

you will be an idiot. it is inevitable.

[toskarin]

maybe that is the case for you, but it is not the case for me. we are quite different people, it would seem

[thefreewillagency]

Imagining this discussion but about 9/11

[toskarin]

I could also have survived that

[wayamy27narf]

Waiting for the inevitable day when @toskarin s blog is deactivated. Gonna set up a reminder to check on you in 5 years.

[toskarin]

[cosmic-tuna]

wait holy fuck I have polls, quick! pick a rock to see up close from my collection!!

lapis lazuli

the unidentified blue green rock

solidified ash from Mt St Helen's

labradorite

the unidentified iron type rock

crazy lace agate

the fancy purple rock

mossy agate(I think)

ruby under UV light

alexandrite under UV light

Voting ended onFeb 7, 2023

[vesuvius-official]

I want to see the ash.

Volcano blogs, ASSEMBLE

[cero-sleep]

Would ppl want to magma starting at abt 6PM CST Thursday?

That's the date aggie anon and I agreed on, so if anyone wants to join ^^

[feralmoonlight]

I got a test of my computer likes magma cuz it doesn't like the whiteboard one but I might be able to sneak in if it lines up with not my dumbass daytime schedule x3

[cero-sleep]

I think it should run alright? I haven't tried whiteboard but I hear it tends to not work? lol

So far what I've seen with magma is that in computer it works fine, but in tablets and phones it lags a lot

Also, drop in if you're able, but dw if you can't either! We can always do another one! ^^

[eyenaku]

YO I CAN JOIN AT THAT TIME

IF NOT I WILL! BE HOSTING A HALLOWEEN MAGMA TOMORROW AT 5PM PST!

[vesuvius-official]

Did someone say we're throwing magma????

[vesuvius-official]

[puertorico-trench]

Without us, Volcanoes are nothing. We are older, wiser and stronger. Yet just because Volcanoes are above the ocean surface, they think they are cooler than trenches.

So yes if any volcano wants to fight come meet me @ 19°35'N, 66°30'W. I'll be waiting

[garrett-island-official]

I created you

[puertorico-trench]

Go back to sleep you old coot

[totallynormalmountain]

hey only I'M allowed to bully garrett island

[glados-boyfriend-girlfriend]

THE ROCKS ARE FIGHTING

[totallynormalmountain]

[vesuvius-official]

On flat fuck Friday, we celebrate our shield volcano brethren.

[kilaueavolcano]

Ugh here i am with Montana again

[vesuvius-official]

I love how the most interesting thing in Wyoming is the geysers and not the fucking supervolcano @yellowstone-official.

[randombubblegum]

i think ive accidentally joined a volcano rp group where we rp as volcanoes on tumblr. im having beef with vesuvius. do you have any advice

can you believe this website is free to use

[vesuvius-official]

@lunarfemme It was @mountsainthelensofficial and @katlaofficial, but we have put our differences aside. ♥️

[vesuvius-official]

On flat fuck Friday, we celebrate our shield volcano brethren.

[bunjywunjy]

Planet earth is terrifying I hope I never see a volcano

hey, you should be glad these things are around, they’re a sign that Earth isn’t going to let cosmic radiation cook you alive anytime soon!

volcanoes erupt when plumes of liquid magma rise up through the more sluggish magma closer to Earth’s crust and melt their way up to the surface, like how the cheese bubbles up through your pot of unattended macaroni! (except WAY less delicious)

and this magma rises in the first place because it’s been superheated by Earth’s core, which is a constantly-rotating semifluid ball of supercompressed hellfire iron hotter than the surface of the sun!

the unimaginable pressure down there combined with the physical rotation turns Earth’s heart into a primitive dynamo engine that generates a powerful magnetic field, which acts like an enormous forcefield and prevents most of the cosmic radiation Earth encounters from ever reaching the surface!

which is good, because it would immediately blast the surface of the Earth clean of life if it ever did make landfall. 

so if you ever do encounter an erupting volcano, remember that all things are connected, and stop to give Mama Earth a pat of thanks for protecting you from the cosmic forces of the universe which would very much like to make you extremely dead!

and then run like hell.

[vesuvius-official]

Felt hot, might erupt later.

[geniusbee]

Mt. St. Helens

I’ll have limited copies of this in print at VanCAF17 this weekend, come see me at table D-11! 

[vesuvius-official]

@mountsainthelensofficial

[vesuvius-official]

On flat fuck Friday, we celebrate our shield volcano brethren.