This Stunning Volcanic Eruption Video Shows Nature at Its Most Epic

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00:00This video was recently captured of Ecuador's Lacumbre volcano just as it began erupting once

00:05again. The island upon which the volcano resides is part of the Galapagos Archipelago, known for

00:10Charles Darwin's famed studies of biodiversity. Ecuador's environmental ministry said in a recent

00:15statement that gas emissions and thermal anomalies were first detected through satellite systems

00:20ahead of the eruption. Here you can see the expulsion of gas lit up by the bright glow of

00:24liquid hot lava flowing from the volcano before dawn. The Lacumbre volcano resides on the island

00:30of Fernandina, and it's just one of 13 active volcanoes on the archipelago. That's because

00:35underneath the string of islands is the Galapagos hotspot, a 20-million-year-old seismic uplift

00:40caused by myriad layers of lava. The last volcano to erupt on the island chain was the Wolf Volcano

00:46back in 2022. Though Lacumbre last erupted in January 2020, experts expect this eruption to

00:52be much larger than that one. The eruption is occurring around 600 miles from mainland Ecuador,

00:57but even on the Galapagos Islands themselves, experts don't believe this one should have much

01:01impact on tourism.