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Unexplainable

The view from inside a volcano

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The magma chambers at the heart of volcanoes are very deep and very hot. So naturally, some researchers want to build an observatory in one. Guests: Mike Poland, scientist-in-charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory; Yan Lavallée, chair of magmatic petrology and volcanology at LMU München and scientific and technical board member of the Krafla Magma Testbed; John Eichelberger, volcanologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and founding scientist of KMT For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠ For more, go to ⁠⁠vox.com/unexplainable⁠⁠ And please email us! ⁠⁠unexplainable@vox.com⁠⁠ We read every email. Support Unexplainable (and get ad-free episodes) by becoming a Vox Member today: ⁠⁠vox.com/members Help us plan for the future of Unexplainable by filling out a brief survey: ⁠⁠⁠⁠voxmedia.com/survey⁠⁠⁠⁠. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Follow the show on YouTube or wherever you listen to your podcasts. In the Caribbean, there is a beautiful island full of lush greenery called Bastille.

1:23.1

It is home to tens of thousands of people and a volcano. A volcano called Soufriere.

1:28.1

Actually, there's, it seems like most volcanoes in the Caribbean are named Sufriere.

1:32.9

But this one is Sufriere to Guadalu.

1:35.2

Mike Poland studies volcanoes for the U.S. Geological Survey.

1:38.7

He's kind of like an encyclopedia of interesting volcano stories.

1:42.6

But the story he's telling me today takes

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