Four climate, tectonic, volcanic, and fire events that lasted decades to eons

From an Australian fire that's been continually burning for millennia, to earthquakes that shake the ground for centuries, here are four natural disasters that lasted way longer than you might have expected. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Benjamin Carleski, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, DrakoEsper, Eric Jensen, Friso, Garrett Galloway, Harrison Mills, J. Copen, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kenny Wilson, Kevin Bealer, Kevin Knupp, Lyndsay Brown, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources https://volcano.si.edu/showreport.cfm?doi=10.5479/si.GVP.BGVN201906-257100 https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=257100 http://tinyurl.com/ywkbhc8h https://www.britannica.com/place/Stromboli-Island http://tinyurl.com/58yxxh3h https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.887632/full https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00445-014-0837-3 https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/230/1/392/6498123 https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/90239/1/Carnian%20humidity%20final%20version.pdf https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1989Geo....17..265S/abstract https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/September-2018/Feature-1 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aba0099 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2109895118 https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/5/2265 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S001678782300055X https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1199121/full https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7494334/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03996-1 https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2018-020 http://tinyurl.com/34b43uud http://tinyurl.com/r8b8e32p https://minsocnsw.org.au/newsletters/MinSoc_Newsletter_Apr15.pdf http://tinyurl.com/3z75wy8b https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0034425774900406 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/fire-in-the-hole-77895126/ http://tinyurl.com/2p8zfurf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705811050715 https://www.jstor.org/stable/48662584 http://tinyurl.com/4sds8dsm https://www.britannica.com/event/New-Madrid-earthquakes-of-1811-1812 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2023JB026482 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1007937 https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/foreshocks-aftershocks-whats-difference https://www.usgs.gov/news/what-earthquake-swarm http://tinyurl.com/bdawhzns http://tinyurl.com/mr3yt736 https://www.gettyimages.com http://tinyurl.com/3hm9frr5 http://tinyurl.com/yev4bdbf http://tinyurl.com/mt8x5xvt http://tinyurl.com/5pjuuf42 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:East_Beach_1_2006.JPG http://tinyurl.com/v6y3epcw https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:220_Ma_paleoglobe.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MountSanford.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burning_Mountain_Summit.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_South_Wales_in_Australia.svgl http://tinyurl.com/mryhtwsa https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kohlebrand_China.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NMSZBig.gif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_Madrid_Erdbeben.jpg http://tinyurl.com/42tyyv9f https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_Madrid_Missouri.jpg http://tinyurl.com/mtzm2cym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NMSZ_Erdbeben.jpg http://tinyurl.com/y32vcz74 http://tinyurl.com/5f62fjft http://tinyurl.com/5et223r2 http://tinyurl.com/msjtumra http://tinyurl.com/mt8x5xvt https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MountWrangell.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadtroda_Sandstein.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:East_Beach_1_2006.JPG http://tinyurl.com/v6y3epcw https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:220_Ma_paleoglobe.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MountSanford.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Staurikosaurus-mingau-colour.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burning_Mountain_Summit.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_South_Wales_in_Australia.svg http://tinyurl.com/5a26pywe http://tinyurl.com/mryhtwsa https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kohlebrand_China.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NMSZBig.gif http://tinyurl.com/3hvnjyws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:New_Madrid_Missouri.jpg http://tinyurl.com/mtzm2cym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NMSZ_Erdbeben.jpg http://tinyurl.com/mvdjv82v