Watch a Tsunami be Generated by a Volcanic Eruption

On October 12th of 2022, a small tsunami was generated by a volcanic eruption of Mount Stromboli in Italy. This video displays the entire sequence of events which created the tsunami via a pyroclastic flow entering the Mediterranean Sea. Although this tsunami was relatively small, other recent ones at Stromboli in the last 1,000 years were incredibly destructive. However, the recent tsunami provides an excellent case study for determining how volcanic tsunamis form. I want to give a special thanks to INGVvulcani / INGV, Progetto UNO (@uno_progetto on Twitter), and Tullio Ricci for allowing me to use footage of the pyroclastic flow. It was posted on the INGVvulcani channel () at under a CC BY 3.0 license. If you would like to support this channel, consider becoming a patron at Another way to support this channel is to make an order via our gemstone and geology related etsy store