00:00An earthquake shook the seafloor, and just two days later,
00:03a volcano erupted on India's only active volcanic island.
00:07On September 20th, the skies over Barren Island lit up with smoke and ash.
00:12This remote island in the Andaman Sea is home to India's only active volcano.
00:16And it just erupted again, for the fourth time since 1991.
00:21But this eruption wasn't random.
00:23It was triggered by a magnitude 4.2 earthquake that hit the region two days earlier.
00:28The quake disturbed the magma chamber deep underground.
00:31According to seismologist O.P. Mishra,
00:33the shaking was just intense enough to push molten lava upward.
00:37The result? A sudden, spectacular eruption.
00:41This island sits on a deadly fault line, the same one that moved during the 2004 tsunami.
00:46Even though the eruption was minor and didn't threaten any people,
00:50it's a chilling reminder of how alive our planet truly is.
00:54And that this region is constantly on edge, ready to erupt.
00:58Nature sends warnings in fire and rumble.
01:01And Barren Island just sent another one!
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