Mt Ruapehu volcanic lahar

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Uploaded by on May 20, 2009

Mt Ruapehu, New Zealand, March 18, 2007 After months of signs that the long awaited tephra dam collapse at Mt Ruapehu's crater lake was imminent it finally happened on Sunday March 18, at the time I was, amazingly, in Turangi, only 30 minutes away from Mt Ruapehu, a helicopter was quickly organized and within minutes I was in the air above the lahar, extensive, exclusive video was shot... enjoy !
Still photos at http://www.geoffmackley.com/archive/ruapehulahar.html

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  • Its like a river of chocolate milk, very scary and deadly chocolate milk...

  • When you see somthing like this approaching you know this is not gonna be your day.....

    Must be hell for the people around.

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  • One person died in that by drowning in that lahar...

    Next day, he came back as a ghost and pressed the dislike button!

  • rosie o donnel had diahhrea upstream

  • really nice helicopter camerawork, I love this!

  • @KillerFlood02 LOL Augustus Gloop disliked this.

    XD

  • My whole class and I have been to where this had happened..

    It's pretty sad and when you touch the water it's really warm :)

  • I visited the site a week after the lahar. Smelt like Rotorua. Awesome footage

  • Very impressive. It reminds me of the lahars generated by the Mount St Helens eruption on 18 May 1980, though they were much bigger, much more destructive and were caused by an eruption on the day. It would have been interesting to be in the hazards monitoring team tracking the progress of this event. How long after the event started did you find out that the dam had broken?

  • @AndresPajaro no. im learning about them in cemistry now there just a massive mud flow. usllaly caused by a volcano eruption. there not hot.

  • this is what happens when chuck norris has a shit

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