A large underwater volcano is erupting north of Papua New Guinea

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That’s not the really newsworthy part. That the volcano is creating an ash and steam cloud despite being a half-mile underwater is.

2

The narrator sounds like Kip Dynamite.

3

He certainly does have a very unusual voice, and I don’t think it’s altered in any way.

4

IANA expert by any means, but I don’t think that’s a human voice. That’s a text to speech system.

Here’s a couple of geo-physics-related cites to the eruption:

and Global Volcanism Program | Volcanic Activity Report on Central Bismarck Sea (Papua New Guinea) — 12 May 2026.

These site’s pages should to be kept up to date as the situation develops.

5

Got to be. And a bad one at that. I had to turn the sound off.

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Here’s some fresh info on the eruption: