The volcano in this video is Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra, Indonesia

Feb 5, 2014 21:51 GMT  ·  By

This past Saturday, a volcano dubbed Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra erupted, and coughed out an impressive amount of hot gas and rock.

While moving down the volcano, the mixture of hot gas and rock, otherwise known as the pyroclastic flow, deposited red-hot material on the ground.

The air above these deposits heated to a considerable extent, and ended up rising to fast that it birthed several small tornadoes.

The phenomenon was caught on camera, and is made available in the video above.

If you're going to watch this video with your speakers switched on, you will hear some funny voices in the background.

Rest assured, those are not chipmunks, but regular people who only sound like they have the most annoying voices in the world due to the fact that the video is played at two times its normal speed.

As Dr. Richard Roscoe explains, the pyroclastic flow is not all that fast, and, should the video had been shared with the public at its actual speed, not all that many people would have had enough patience to watch it.