The Recent Megaeruptions in Tenerife; Teide's Caldera Forming Eruptions

Imagine 35 Mount Saint Helens volcanoes right next to each other explosively erupting like witnessed in 1980. Although difficult to imagine, this portrays the massive scale of an explosive eruption which occurred at the Teide volcano on the island of Tenerife approximately 183,500 years ago. This video discusses that eruption, and the complex that is the Mount Teide volcano.

This video's thumbnail image displays what the most recent VEI 6 eruption of the Teide volcano may have looked like.

Note: The information on the eruption size, volcanic explosivity index (VEI), and age of Teide's last caldera forming eruption along with the size of the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens in this video's description and a line of text above about the video's thumbnail image was sourced from the LaMEVE database: British Geological Survey © UKRI, https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/vogripa/view/c..., Used with Permission

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[1] LaMEVE database, British Geological Survey © UKRI, https://www2.bgs.ac.uk/vogripa/view/c..., Used with Permission
[2] Hunt, J.E., Cassidy, M. & Talling, P.J. Multi-stage volcanic island flank collapses with coeval explosive caldera-forming eruptions. Sci Rep 8, 1146 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19..., CC BY 4.0
[3] U.S. Geological Survey
[4] 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    / geologyhub   on Oct 5th, 2022. (Source of the VEI scale and methodology)

0:00 Teide Volcano
0:48 Crater Lake
3:02 A Caldera Forming Eruption
4:04 Smaller Future Eruptions, For Now
4:36 Conclusion