What Happens if the Yellowstone Volcano Erupts?

What Happens if the Yellowstone Volcano Erupts?
Yellowstone National Park, located in the United States, is home to an extraordinary geological feature known as the Yellowstone Caldera. Beneath this picturesque landscape lies a sleeping giant-a supervolcano capable of unleashing an eruption of catastrophic proportions. First, we'll explore the initial stages of an eruption. We'll discuss the signs that would precede the event, including seismic activity, ground deformation, and changes in hydrothermal systems. You'll gain insights into the scientific monitoring techniques that help experts track volcanic activity, providing crucial warning signs. As the eruption unfolds, we'll examine the immediate impact on the surrounding region. We'll delve into the release of vast quantities of volcanic ash, toxic gases, and pyroclastic flows, which can devastate everything in their path. You'll learn about the potential for widespread destruction and the immediate threat to human life.
But the consequences don't end there. We'll also explore the long-term effects of a Yellowstone eruption, such as the alteration of global weather patterns and the injection of enormous amounts of ash into the atmosphere. This could lead to a significant drop in global temperatures, affecting agriculture, and ecosystems, and even triggering a volcanic winter.

[@MasteringKnowledge]

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[@Tina-zx1xz]

How Satan is lying to everyone that the earth is billions of years old… when it’s only 6,000… and Jesus is coming soon so people should be placing their faith in him while you still have time… Bible Prophecies are jumping off the pages. We are at the end of the last days. And if you don’t place your faith in him then you will soon see plenty of disasters like never before. The only way to escape what’s coming on the earth is placing your faith in Jesus now… call on the name of the Lord What must you do to be saved… believe the gospel… God gave up his glory was born of a virgin. Jesus is 💯 God 💯 man. He walked a perfect life. Shed his blood to pay our sin debt, died, was buried and rose on the 3rd day

[@itzzzsss]

Current tornadoes reeking havoc in the MidEast and the same architectural technology that the USA still uses = total loss

[@PseudonymAliase]

Yes , but no one asks blind people if they want to see!

[@achimkunisch8619]

You mesioned Pompei, next to the vesuve there is a other supervocano (the city of neapels is parcely, if not completely, buld in that supervolcano) there are structures of acent rome that are belived to have been under water that are now over watter.

[@cindyloomis9096]

😜 I'm in Idaho... 😵‍💫😬😬

[@Lappillainen]

Mexico will have a serious problem with english speaking illegal immigrants 😂

[@melbagamboa5623]

Believe me that will be the least of your worries ,if you survive

[@icnow2097]

Fn love it. Yelp

[@susanwilson6397]

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[@justlooking4771]

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[@user-sy8kj5nn8s]

​@@ShirleyGronin-iu8sw lol.

[@arklave]

One thing the video didn't go into detail about is how heavy the ash would be when it accumulates. Apparently only 4 inches of wet ash could cause the average roof to cave in. This means that the ash would poison all the lakes and rivers it touches, We cant use cars or planes in the affected area, and it would also destroy any shelter most people could find. The consequences would truly be dire and on a scale the country has never seen before.

[@ALYoungFuture13]

Good thing the American Indians have the underground tunnel systems from Florida to Kanata

[@elessartelcontar9415]

The ash cover in Pompeii was over 28 feet thick on top of some houses. On Santorini, the Thera eruption laid down over 1,000 feet of ash and pumice!

[@wordsculpt]

​@@ALYoungFuture13😂

[@nicholasnissen1547]

World

[@RajHK8]

Better take some dirt and drop it in dat hole, smother dat lava

[@robertmartinjr.4537]

There are 2 other supervolcanoes in the United States. The Long Valley Caldera in California and the Valles Caldera in New Mexico. They aren't well known but They are monsters in their own right. And they are seismically active as well.

[@thomasrussell7135]

There is also the Valle caldera north of Cuba New Mexico on Jiccarilla Apache Reservation

[@robertmartinjr.4537]

@thomasrussell7135 it's probably extinct. The are only 3 seismically active super calderas in the U.S. the Valles Caldera is one of them the rest are dormant or extinct meaning that their Hotspots have migrated to another part of earth's mantle.

[@balfourwheatley6644]

What if they all went off at once? 😮

[@jessicathompson236]

@@balfourwheatley6644 , It would be something of a mass extinction level event

[@WLM596]

​@@balfourwheatley6644😮

[@A5JDZK]

I remember when Mt. ST Helen erupted in 1980. I specifically remember a one inch layer of ash all over everything all the way in Central Texas. At noon, it looked like it was midnight. The sky was filled with ash. It was very surreal.

[@just_kos99]

What's funny is that north of Mt St Helens didn't get a lick of ash from the May 18th eruption. It erupted again that August, and we got a smattering of ash in the Seattle area, like we'd driven down a dirt road.

[@davidcowan4705]

Mt. St. Helen eruption and its aftermath proved to me the universe and our earth is only 6000 years old. When the Flood occurred, you had dozens of tectonic shifts, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, 40 days of rain, the pushing of mountains and the formation of the 7 continents instantaneously within 14 months or so. The animals (fossils) died instantly, Trees and their trunks were buried "as is" due to the Flood. This is why some dinosaurs and other animals at that time still have proteins and food particles in their buried (entombed ) bodies. The runoff of the water and mud is what formed canyons and strata. Scientists have proven this to be true. Fossils of oceanic fish and other aquatic animals have been found at the top of some of the highest mountains. They ended up there because they floated upwards due to the high waters. Evolution is a lie. Atheism is a lie. If you believe I'm wrong, you're an idiot for ignoring solid evidence.

[@mylamberfeeties875]

😂 I am from the Coquille tribe along the coast of Oregon. I was in Bandon on the beach the day it erupted did not effect us at all!

[@odellgreene234]

I was in Eastern South Dakota, and we woke up to what we thought was dirty snow over everything! No ice age, just " cloudy" skies for one day. Since then, I have been questioning the Validity of some of the "Scientific" theories about the earth and what constitutes a super volcano? I'm good with the scientific process but don't like the abuse of the peer review process.

[@MrJohnnyboyrebel]

We live in Houston and remember ash from Mt. St. Helens appearing here too.

[@tkoch19606]

One thing that I remember my geology professors explaining is that the Yellowstone super volcano is rhyolitic. Rhyolite has a much higher silica content than basalt or andesite. The higher the silica, the more viscous the magma, and the more viscous the magma, the more powerful the eruption. . Super volcano eruptions in Iceland are relatively calm because it is basaltic magma (very low silica). Eruptions in Indonesia are usually more forceful because the magma leans more towards basaltic-andesitic, which has a higher silica content. Also, the bentonite ash deposits throughout the mountain regions (Wyoming, Dakotas, etc) from former eruptions can be many feet thick, but even going east of the Mississippi there are significant ash accumulations from those eruptions. The ash fall would be truly devastating.

[@clydeacor1911]

Just to the south and southwest in Idaho (Idaho Falls, Blackfoot, Arco, Twin Falls)there's many types of lava rock but most is basalt, and yet Yellowstone is supposed to be very violent and it's not even 100 miles away.

[@juniperbush1442]

Blimey! All I remember is that Italy is shaped like a boot!

[@eddiehoward7002]

I think I remember reading that Florida was covered in a few millimeters of ash from the last eruption.

[@jessiesalisbury7044]

Yeah, You got your tomb ready.

[@jessiesalisbury7044]

Just face it our Earth has been through a lot of hard times in the past and Her troubles aren't over yet. The bright side without all of those Volcanoes etc. life just may not have happened at. What the lost loves says "Its better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all!" Rather we can say its better to have lived and lost, than to never lived at all. @@clydeacor1911

[@gabriel51366]

He didn't mention that the resulting quake would be between 9.0 and 10.4 and felt as far as Ohio or Pennsylvania.

[@lonniemonroe2714]

Well then. Good bye West coast. And good riddance. Sorry Japan bout that sunomi

[@thespeedofchillax]

​@@lonniemonroe2714 why good riddance to the west coast? Have you ever been out here? Some of the most beautiful beaches and coastal mountain ranges, covered with forests that are made up of the tallest and most massive species of trees on the planet all exist here ... why would you want or not care if all of that were to disappear or change drastically forever overnight like it's no big deal?

[@MrStacy1974]

@@thespeedofchillax the guy believes the west coast are the liberal , communist boogeyman. If it disappeared little Mayberrys will suddenly pop up and everyone will live happily ever after in their conservative utopia .

[@lexkek5625]

​@@thespeedofchillaxit is also where most of the money and food that the US produces comes from.

[@glockensig]

Goodbye!!

[@Doc1855]

If it erupts, then I’ll get to heaven quicker than I thought

[@soon2bsaint680]

Amen Doc

[@shaneh3109]

You people need to actually read the book you claim to believe in...

[@Doc1855]

@@shaneh3109 And who says we don’t ?

[@ClanToreador]

Even so, come Lord Jesus.

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

Same, I refuse to live my life in fear. If it happens it happens.

[@slimsantilli4476]

The greatest Eruption took place in 1978 on Van Halens debut Album.

[@ringonor4298]

Yeah uh huh!!

[@shanonmay-harmon4517]

😂

[@TylerVanBuskirk-qm6be]

🤘🤘

[@terrymcdougal5216]

R.I.P. Eddie you R missed 🎸

[@DallasinCali33]

Yeaaaa!!!!!! RIP EDDIE

[@travist.7279]

The magma dome under Yellowstone has been moving gradually eastward (or, more to the point, continental drift has been moving the surface). The last eruption, 640k years ago, actually occurred near the present location of Arco, Idaho. The Craters of the Moon National Monument, near Arco, is the lava flow from that ancient eruption.

[@jimc4839]

Interesting. That must explain the ashfall fossil beds.

[@scrapyardprospecting3855]

The last few eruptions occurred in the current park. It is moving but not that fast. Did no one pay attention in school when they taught us this stuff?????? Didn’t think so

[@PARTY152]

Does that mean it wont erupt? i hope not

[@markrouse2416]

@scrapyardprospecting3855 Not that intelligent are you?

[@curtisbacon7856]

​@@scrapyardprospecting3855if you paid attention in school and believe all the stuff they taught you then you believe a lie because the truth of the matter is simple no one knows how old the Earth is or when that volcano last erupted except God himself

[@johnmiranda2307]

You KNOW BETTER!! Yellowstone has too many relief valves. At least, that’s what the volcano salesman told me.

[@AmandathePandaBooks]

Yellow stone would be a very disappointing poof!! YS is always releasing pressure!

[@lanesaarloos281]

We need laws mandating all volcanoes have relief valves installed.

[@jeraldine4694]

Salesman ?

[@johnnoo]

Always replace with quality relief valves every other year!! Fer safety ✅✅💥

[@virginia5]

Lol

[@just_kos99]

Two things: 1. the Yellowstone hotspot has been erupting for 55 million years, much more than just 3 times. 2. The "official" term for this type of volcano is a "resurgent dome caldera." The BBC came up with the word "supervolcano."

[@mikedestiny4122]

well thats actually right, the film shockingly shows that the a moderate quake near Norris area could trigger a huge instability and trigger as shown on one of the teams monitors. a VEI 8 currently a VEI8 is deemed to be a supervolcano eruption.

[@alpinecountryclub6666]

Yes, I remember 50 million years ago when I was there......

[@sag1970]

Don't worry there's no reason to think about it and worry and fret. There is nothing we can do about the results of such a horrible experience. Just make the best of every day of this life and realize life is a gift

[@shadowbox5598]

Make sure you're saved. 👼😇🕊⛪️

[@mattserraes8561]

If the volcano erupts at regular intervals, in 500,000 years , the human experiment will be over on earth

[@Saganswrld2190]

The crazy thing is is volcanos are erratic and sometimes unpredictable.

[@keithclayton1271]

...and just how many volcanos have you personally known, my dear man?!

[@BrokensoulRider]

Many women in his life. @@keithclayton1271

[@InvasiveGoofySpecies]

He’s right actually they can happen at anytime without warning.

[@debra6513]

Gee, do ya think😳

[@InvasiveGoofySpecies]

@@debra6513 I mean there was one that happened recently in Indonesia.

[@Vector_Ze]

"We'll be ready for it." HARDLY

[@rogerjensen5277]

How could you be ready for something on this massive of scale? Well, maybe if you're super rich!

[@rwhitely2288]

Pompeii probably said the same thing.

[@dougdimmadomeownerofthedim2918]

Famous last words, lol.

[@AQS521]

​@rogerjensen5277 if history tells us anything, it's that all politicians and rich people will be kept perfectly safe while us regular, everyday working people will be left to the ashes.

[@ALYoungFuture13]

Good thing American Indians know where the underground tunnel systems are from Kanate to Florida

[@violatethemagistrate]

I love how the arrow in the thumbnail is basically point directly at my house. Excuse me: I'll just go about my day with no worries now.

[@pollypurree1834]

That would be a great area to move the nation's capitol to

[@virginia5]

Yes, they have underground bunkers with food

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

NORTHCOM is in CO. The DHS and US Air Force keep that 🤫.

[@RainNSnow]

Mar A Lardo North?

[@TheMichaelBeck]

Not just the U.S. , the entire world would be affected. It would be dark for a generation or more. Mass famine, mass casualties, dire times indeed.

[@t.c.2776]

Sounds like living in a Food Desert in a low income Democratic run urban hell hole...🤔

[@maxwellcrazycat9204]

A deterrent to not attack the USA with a nuclear weapon? Could set off the eruption.

[@jeannestark6293]

Do you get a thrill anything that knowing that you’ll be just as bad as everybody else oh I forgot you’ve got your proper shit proper shit proper shit guy doesn’t save people Prepper shit

[@saltyprepper5513]

We're going in that direction anyway....

[@glockensig]

So my solar panels won't help me?

[@kirbygreen3309]

Tsunamis affected Indonesia primarily. Japan was not involved in that particular event. 36,000 inhabitants were from Indonesia. Many remain un named. Even to this day. Thanks for the information.

[@subjidealist]

In Colorado,,,, I have my lawn chair and a bottle of bourbon ready to go lol

[@RyuYD]

Lol 😅

[@tommunyon2874]

My childhood home was on the side of the Jemez caldera complex. I used to ponder what would happen if it erupted again. It is essentially Yellowstone on a smaller scale.

[@user-mx8ev1ex3j]

The super volcano Wawa in Utah and Nevada is bigger than Yellowstone and if you've ever noticed they're starting to have a lot of little earthquakes I often wondered if this was lava moving possibility but it is bigger than Yellowstone and just not active

[@AboveAverageMan97]

I believe its getting fed molten rock from the Cascadian subduction zone pushing the Pacific plate under the North American Contiential plate to the Rockie mountains and perhaps beyond that too.

[@user-mx8ev1ex3j]

@@AboveAverageMan97 a very good possibility

[@Wesmancan]

My understanding is Yellowstone is well vented and would have to have a major earthquake before it could even be concidered for eruption. It’s still a good song tho. 😀😃😃😄😁😆😂🤣

[@user-mx8ev1ex3j]

@@Wesmancan where's that article at? I would love to see it I know I live by Yellowstone sort of and I know that the roads have melted because they were too hot they've had to close them off because the lava has melted the asphalt and the lava has lifted up Yellowstone lake so I really do believe it could go but everybody does have an 0pnion..

[@jessicapearson9479]

Those are not actually bigger. Also, those earthquakes are because of fracking!

[@angrywaffle2860]

Covid made me a light prepper. It also made me realize prepping for minor disasters is enough. Anything severe will probably kill most of us quick.

[@j.sumner6999]

I do not think the last eruption killed off a lot of species, but, I am not an expert.

[@irenafarm]

This failed to mention that a) the hot spot is slowly drifting northeast - more accurately, the continental crust is slowly moving southwest. The northeast crust is extremely ancient craton, which is resistant to volcanism. Eventually, North America will drift enough to position the hot spot under Manitoba and THAT might be a mess. That’s like, several million years away though. b) Iceland sits on top of a much more active hot spot. You can see from what’s happening in Grindavik, that scientists can tell when things are getting spicy belowground. In the extremely unlikely event that the Yellowstone volcano becomes active and nears eruption, we’ll have YEARS of warning. Idk what we’d actually do about it, but minimally, they’d have plenty of time to evacuate….basically three or four states. Weirdly, this video both overstated the drama (it wouldn’t suddenly erupt one day without warning), and greatly underestimated the impact. This would be, minimally, a minor extinction event. There’s already too much carbon being pumped into the atmosphere. This could outgas enough methane and CO2 to tip the scale into runaway heating. It’s difficult to tell, honestly. It might, on the other hand hand, disrupt civilization enough to stop anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. It’s not something we currently have to worry about though. It’s really just a thought experiment.

[@earth2006]

Look at it another way. If we go into a volcanic ice age, then that cancels global warming. That would make a certain young lady from a very cold country very happy.

[@jamessherosick2747]

All of the eruptions in the past haven't caused "run away heating" in fact quite the opposite.

[@truckercowboyed2638]

Carbon is natural its not being pumped or at too much of a level either.. carbon is released then it's absorbed through plants...over and over

[@truckercowboyed2638]

​@@earth2006how dare you!! Lol 😂

[@earth2006]

​@truckercowboyed26 how dare I ?. What did I dare ?. Was it not worrying. This falls in the same category of Beetlejuice going KABOOM. Nothing I can do about it changes are nothing "Fun" will happen in my lifetime.😮😮😅.

[@richardthomas5362]

Why did he brink up Japan as a major casualty event for Krakatoa and not even mention Indonesia? The vast majority of the deaths WERE in Indonesia. Also, I know I am nit picking, but he said there wasn't a super volcanic eruption during human history, then brings up the Toba eruption killing humans.

[@andyduijkers4910]

One thing is certain. If the Volcano erupts then everyone on this planet will be effected to a greater or lesser amount.

[@22lyric]

That's true about EVERYTHING!

[@OldManMuskrat]

And there's not a single thing anyone on the planet can do to stop it

[@00Pottus00]

No that is non-sense most of the eruptions at Yellowstone are small.

[@OldManMuskrat]

@@00Pottus00 Historically they have been catastrophic. Las time was about 700k years ago. It changed the landscape in a 75 mile radius of the center. Those geysers that spew water are completely different in that it it's only steam and water and not house size chunks of debris like you can expect in a caldera eruption.

[@redeem5858]

@@OldManMuskratIt’s an overhyped volcano. If it were to go off it’ll be catastrophic, but not to the point where the U.S. is destroyed

[@mikeelder6298]

As an Arkansan I'm not worried about Yellowstone volcanoes erupting, I'm worried about the New Madrid Fault

[@diegoflores9237]

Yeah that one is more likely. The Yellowstone one is less likely to happen

[@arklinmike]

On the plus side, once the eruption takes place, the deposit of ash will ultimately make the soil around there more fertile, as it is in Hawaii. Also the clouds of ash in the atmosphere lowering the temperature in the Northern Hemisphere will alter the weather and possibly make it more prone to rain. So the addition of nutrients to the soil and the change in weather to a wetter cycle will ultimately cause a fluorescence of plant and animal life as it did around St Helen's in the decades since.

[@user-tx1rr3rb1q]

U miss the point of a long world wide volcanic winter due to Ash blocking the sun. Ash travels just like dust or sand my good freind a super eruption is different than a normal volcanic eruption

[@ALYoungFuture13]

Depends on the season and jet stream activity

[@vintagelady1]

You DID hear the part about the air being unbreathable, that what they call "ash" is actually miniscule particles of glass that, if you breathe it in, turns solid in your lungs & you eventually suffocate? The "worst case scenario) they are talking about will make Mt.St. Helens look like a baby's fart!

[@user-tx1rr3rb1q]

@@vintagelady1 thank you

[@DaLink25]

I wonder: Would adding more venting routes for the molten rock placate Yellowstone(and other super volcanos)? People could adapt to the lava flow areas, and it sure would beat a giant eruption.

[@jessiesalisbury7044]

Let sleeping dogs lie.

[@We_Are_Borg_478]

​@@jessiesalisbury7044 This ^

[@toohda]

@@jessiesalisbury7044what?

[@blackholeentry3489]

Please explain just how we would go about doing that....I mean, what type of drilling equipment would we use to drill into molten rock w/o the drilling equipment itself also melting?

[@DaLink25]

@@blackholeentry3489 : True. We would need some kind of protection for the drills. This is a rough idea. I haven’t ironed out all the details.

[@jaykay6387]

The magma is one thing, but what isn't being considered is the massive amounts of potentially dangerous smegma that could emitted into the atmosphere. Scary stuff, indeed!

[@Dedric_Price]

🤨 SMEGMA?

[@jaykay6387]

@@Dedric_Price It was a joke, obviously it went over like a Led Zeppelin!

[@Dedric_Price]

kinda sussy... you never know anymore...

[@nostalgicumbry3279]

@@jaykay6387 I think the joke crashed like a zepplin

[@jaykay6387]

@@nostalgicumbry3279 Yes, I freely admitted to that already! If you're going to rub it in, you should bring something else to the table!

[@PatriciaMadsen-cu7wj]

In Eastern WA…when it blew it was a beautiful day. I put my rabbits and dog inside…filled containers w/water (we had an open water source) and went to visit my mother. A couple hours later it was pitch black and huge flakes of ash were falling. My husband and I covered our kids, loaded in the car and drove about a mile home. The next day it looked like a moonscape. I covered my face and went out and beat bushes and lower tree limbs…set out water for birds, squirrels. The advice was put it in your garden… Not only did it kill car engines…it was like a layer of cement in the soil for years. I scraped it off my garden…I think they must have picked up piles of it’s everyone had to get it off the roof. That was in May and it was a cool Summer….

[@WA_S_S_AW]

It needs a really big mountain to sit on top of it so it can build up pressure and erupt with a big explosion. Like the big mountain that used to be there a long, long time ago.

[@Sara-L]

Not true. There are already hundreds to thousands of cubic miles of rock sitting on top of the underground magma chamber. What constitutes a violent eruption depends on the composition of the magma.

[@lturner6256]

Sorry, you are incorrect.

[@dalemoore435]

No one knows what kind of eruption could happen. I'm ground zero in Jellystone

[@train_go_boom2065]

Ok yogibear

[@glenbateman5960]

Volcanologists the world over would be more than a little stunned.

[@twiggs24]

Everything depends on how powerful the initial eruption is. The jet stream would play a part. Some days i dream what i would do if yellow stone blew up.

[@jayseaborg3895]

You would die...

[@kathyrama4570]

Hopefully, I have a depends on.

[@user-tx1rr3rb1q]

Are u mad any eruption would instantly wipe out everything withing 5 to 20 Miles that's close to 1 million people and there won't be alerts because a eruption can happen anytime and we're long over due. My advice enjoy life now don't worry you will only see a bright light and get a very nice early summer

[@kathyrama4570]

@@user-tx1rr3rb1q all I said was Scary. Nope, I ain't mad.

[@JJJJ-he8bz]

@@user-tx1rr3rb1qthey would be able to detect the movement of magma give warnings

[@zachlafond2652]

Don't understand why that isn't tapped for its energy potential which is enormous. You'd also cool it (by removing heat).

[@malcolmt7883]

Look up the Indonesian mud volcano that was triggered by a gas well blow out. It's been going for 17 years now.

[@Sara-L]

While it's true geothermal power is a great source of electricity, this is a national park and is offlimits for development. You cannot effectively "cool" a volcano by installing a geothermal plant, or many geothermal plants, for that matter. What you might do is trigger an eruption.

[@napynap]

I wonder if there is a way to release the pressure over time to avoid such a catastrophe.

[@user-tx1rr3rb1q]

They tried but the problem is gasses namely how much would be released

[@napynap]

@@user-tx1rr3rb1q There's gotta be a way. We should keep trying!

[@aprilstrickland5597]

You don't want to crack that egg! The magma is too close to the surface already. 1 stray crack reaching the magma will cause it to blow. It's a very bad idea.

[@tomdolton2960]

No unfortunately if you try to drill to relieve the pressure it will be like putting a very small hole in a Coca bottle cap after shaking it up and hoping it doesn't find the new path of least resistance the hole you just made for it by trying to stop it you may make it worse and if you try to pump water in to it kiss your self and everything you know good bye the last thing super heated magma needs is Hydrogen to spice things up

[@lturner6256]

Nope.

[@jonasbarbury4013]

I dont agree with the fallout data. If you look at jet stream and other wind pattern data, the west coast would be less impacted by initial blast fallout and would get most of it from secondary fallout which would be significantly less as it would have had to traverse the earth

[@mitchellelliott4804]

Pay attention to what has been happening the last few couple years or are you to blind to see it?

[@mitchellelliott4804]

Or just to ignorant to see it.

[@cindycain3301]

People jave a hard time understanding the scope of a super volcano. They can't imagine it.

[@irenafarm]

But also, scientists can give us many many years’ warning before this particular event. Hot spot volcanoes on continents aren’t as unpredictable as oceanic island volcanoes. As far as scope and impact of supervolcanoes, look up continental flood basalts. That’s when the mantle finds a way to directly pour magma over most of a continent. That’s just impossible to understand as humans. Even geologists have difficulty describing what happens in those events. Again, though, continental volcanism can’t sneak up on us. We’re not gonna wake up one day to the news that Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana have all turned inside out and RIP North America. We’ll have years, possibly a generation or more of warning signs.

[@odellgreene234]

Probably because "super volcano" is a made up term and is not quantifiable.

[@diontaedaughtry974]

This is the only video I've seen that said "we'll be ready for it". If it does Erupt in our lifetime I sure hope we're ready. Very insightful and informative, Great video 👍👍

[@Hohmies86]

Just imagine the Appalachian Mountains being crowded with people Pillars of smoke lifting up to the sky from the valleys and hills around the mountains from all the camp fires

[@ALYoungFuture13]

Europeans can get to return back to Europe

[@Springbok295]

The volcanic eruption in what is today El Salvador in 530 A.D. caused havoc for nearly 90 years. The social upheaval was probably the worst in human history. I can't imagine the disruption Yellowstone might cause.

[@ALYoungFuture13]

Europeans can go back to Europe, Africans can go back to Africa and everybody else can go to Mexico

[@jessiesalisbury7044]

Your right!

[@pokojoe9741]

How in the hell would we "be ready for it"?

[@lotsofhairbutnomoney3705]

By getting a camera.

[@ALYoungFuture13]

Locating all the American Indian tunnel systems, specifically the ones used en the underground railroad from Florida to Kanata

[@JaneDoe-ng3zm]

Helps depopulation Gov. Quotas

[@marksauck3399]

How much time would we be telegraphed ahead of time before the big event? Can we make advancements in technology to prevent a catastrophic event? What does this narrator mean when he said, we’ll be ready for it?

[@johnscottfrasier4045]

I myself go through this every three days. I feel sorry for those in the immediate vicinity.

[@RebeccaTreeseed]

We'll be ready for it? What evidence? I live in New Mexico and would likely die. I don't sound ready.

[@irenafarm]

This was a kind of terrible video. Scientists would be able to give us somewhere between 5 and 20+ years’ warning. They really didn’t make that clear. Yellowstone is similar to Iceland, except WAY WAY less active. You can see from the news there, that scientists can easily give people enough warning to get out of danger, even on that much more volatile hot spot. There’s also very very very very little chance of a Yellowstone eruption. This video implies that it’s imminent and that’s simply not true. The Yellowstone hot spot is drifting slowly northeast. Well, North America is drifting southeast, actually. The continental rock into which it’s moving, is the original North American craton that goes back to the time before there was even life. That continental crust has already survived massive asteroid impacts, crashing into Africa and separating again, multiple times, three different orogenies and rifting events, multiple glaciations, and millions of cycles of the earth tilting back and forth. Scientists believe that the hot spot is already under enough of that highly stable geology to greatly reduce the risk of catastrophic eruption.

[@ALYoungFuture13]

You must not know about the American Indian tunnel systems from Kanata to Kansas to Louisiana to Florida to Arizona to Texas

[@hoodoo2001]

Good, i'm coverd, I live 17 miles south of Austin so I have nothing to worry about.

[@user-wz5ng1gk6e]

I live in Dallas; so I'm good. 😅

[@dannyvestal299]

"IF IT DOES ERUPT on our watch, we'll be ready for it!" ...lmao...Really?..I don't think you can ever be "READY" for a SUPER Volcanoe!..doubtful!

[@timbradwell3205]

Yellowstone is forecast an eruption with basically a slow flowing molten lave stream instead of a massive explosion

[@DavidGarcia-fc1wf]

Iceland is a Super Volcano and it erupts all the time! 😊

[@Dumbluck14]

They have 32 volcanoes. I did not know that

[@apuquaester]

Iceland's volcanic activity is caused by an ocean rift. Not a super volcano. The earth spreading apart allows magma to surface.

[@OutrageIsNow]

Oof

[@danielsweeney6742]

You said we would be ready for it! Not a chance!

[@liquidmagma]

Finally, a video where my expertise can shine...

[@TonyFromSyracuse101]

Maybe if it does erupt, it doesn't necessarily have to be the all encompassing super eruption.

[@user-tx1rr3rb1q]

It will erupt its over due and what u miss is the size of this beast its diameter is huge and its a mammoth. Nature will do its best to help but we need to adapt to the fact that we live in a dangerous world and we must prepare our social systems to cope and adapt to that fact build underground shelters is one way.

[@rorygrime1202]

If this happens will it cause the Ring of Fire where other volcanos erupt ?

[@vivrowe2763]

That is correct! This has been foretold for some time, so I won't be surprised when it does erupt.

[@jaredsilvers2782]

@@vivrowe2763 That's not how the ring of fire works. The ring of fire is just a pattern of volcanic activity due to tectonic plates, it's not like it's at risk for some kind of chain reaction effect.

[@BrokensoulRider]

It can though with the right amount of eruptions. They tend to all trigger one another especially since many are close together. The Cascades and Rockies alone have like.. 4 - 7 @@jaredsilvers2782

[@Umpire25]

You'd have to ask Johnny Cash that; however, he's dead.

[@zzz7zzz9]

​@@Umpire25yes. And he took that secret to his grave with him.

[@ItsAzureandAurora]

Never in my life have I wanted to move to another country any more than I do now...

[@marianalangarica5362]

I live in Milwaukee so I know the ash cloud will reach me but I hope I'm on vacation by then 😟

[@nancyjanzen5676]

When you wash your car after the eruption float the ash off. If you brush it off dry or rub it you will ruin the paint job.

[@crazysquirrel9425]

Collateral damage would be contingent upon the jet stream and pressure systems. Most of that damage would not happen if the jet stream reversed direction.

[@pamd4227]

Yes and usually, the jet stream goes West to East!! Often shifting North to South, between hot and cold.🥶🥵

[@DudeSoWin]

When people complain about climate change then forget that volcanoes not only exist but dump on all their statistics.

[@mikeburkhart8336]

Both political parties will find a way to blame each other for it happening and a way to profit from the disaster.

[@MatoBuci]

USA as a country will collapse if this ever happens imo.

[@paulunangst7996]

Going by the thumbnail… me just chilling in Florida away from the action 🤣

[@opticbigevil7828]

Thats cute the ash alone would be a problem for the entire country not just stares around

[@geraldcormeraie1009]

"we will be ready for it" - If one thing the last 5 years taught me is that there will be a lot of deniers who will claim this is a conspiracy and refuse to evacuate until it's too late.

[@TOTMGreenish-Top-Of-The-Morrin]

y'all got to know if this thing blows Denver gets beachfront property

[@laraleexp1221]

colorado would be gone lol you would need to head south.

[@garyshields2734]

Mt.St. Helens is one thousand the size of Yellowstone. I remember when it went off in California, a week later, while washing my new white Ford, it began to rain and Mt.St. Helens ash was mixed with the raindrops. And the raindrops made a dirty circular splash in my freshly washed white car hood. I was in Pittsburgh. That ash will coat Vermont and Florida. I'd bet on it. There will be a lot of thick ash.

[@user-ou2yn1ye8h]

Exactly yeah I remember in Georgia 😮

[@blackholeentry3489]

I lived in CA when Mt St Helens blew. My 1st wife and I rode a motorcycle almost 1000 miles to view the still smoking volcano and brought back a gallon of ash to spread on my garden. Did it make any difference? Not that I could tell.

[@fordtuff2600]

In eastern WA. we were dealing with deep ash and dark days from Mt St. Helens 🤔

[@arieljoyfine8833]

FYI, Mt. St. Helens is in Oregon, not in California.

[@fordtuff2600]

@@arieljoyfine8833 🤨 It's in Washington State dear. Check yourself before trying to inform others 😉

[@nate78824]

"We'll be ready for it." Like we can do anything about it.

[@artificerdrachen6908]

Bruh we're gonna have MILES of cars on the south bound highways being caught in the shadow of the ash cloud if there was a heads up. Unless we had years of early warning we'd be totally ass fucked since there's no running from this in a quick manner. You'd be lucky to hitch a ride on an aircraft before the airports are swamped.

[@jimgilbert9984]

"We'll be ready for it." Famous last words. I'm sure they were spoken by the engineers who told the bureaucrats in Japan when they said that their sea walls would protect them from any tsunami.

[@josephtpg2205]

Nukelear winter. The suffering would shoot ash above where it can't circulate out. The tonga volcano forced water vapor high above where it can't circulate out. The aah would reflect sunlight. 536 ad was worst year in human history.

[@Keith-zn4vq]

I'm gonna correct your spelling here friend. Nuclear. That's how it's spelled.

[@josephtpg2205]

Nuclear, I stand corrected. Never tweet asleep

[@matsglaad70]

I'm gonna correct your "statement" a Nuclear winter is just a Hollywood myt! The only "force" in history that has produced a volcanic winter has been Super Volcano's eruption or the impact of very big asteroids or ☄ ☄ comets' The AD536 weather "problems" is so far of unknown origin! Nobody have been able to find the "guilty" volcanoes!!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536

[@morganoverbay8783]

Concensus on spelling doesn't make you write. Peepoe can spell how they wont.

[@user-hq4jz6lc9d]

@@morganoverbay8783 That's "sbell" how they wahnt.

[@ragnapodewski4694]

Only question, how strong will the next eruption be? Will it be like Tengger, with building a new volcano in the middle like Mt. Bromo? A steam explosion like many of the Campi flegrei? Or really "the big one"? The hot spot is very old, from the Columbia river flood basalts, over other younger calderas to recent Yellowstone. I think, even hotspots are not eternal and may get tired. All over the world we find remains of old super volcanoes.

[@blackholeentry3489]

Only the Shadow knows! Siesmologists, geologists and geophysicists all provide some semblence of an answer, but in reality, it's all just a guessing game.

[@blackholeentry3489]

@@charlesrichter3854 Does this mean I can soon go camping in Yellowstone again? In the late 80's I rode my motorcycle through Yellowstone on two separate occasions whilst on my way to Sturgis.....just the normal routine geysers doing their standard thing then.

[@blackholeentry3489]

@@charlesrichter3854 Oh NO! Does this mean I must seek somewhere else so I can toast my legendary frankfurters? Perhaps Kim Jung of NK can aid me as he's sitting in a pretty hot seat right now!

[@eligebrown8998]

On that graph it seems the time between eruptions shortens by about 600,000 years.

[@kunis2299]

If build of pressure would cause eruption is it possible to syphon off some of the energy thru some kinda thermal enegry plant or something?

[@AmandathePandaBooks]

Not much would happen. Pressure is always being released. Don't forget that.

[@geraldhardy4257]

Yup ....it would probably change things a bit

[@HVYMTL55]

Ready for a supervolcano 😅 I was liking this until the last line.

[@Klinkerklunk]

That being said, Yellowstone finally erupted last week, so that's now out of the way for another 680 thousand years. It's a relief to have that in our rearview mirror.

[@sdel972]

I’ve been hearing a lot about the new Madrid fault line that goes between KY and Missouri and how it could be strong enough to split the country in half. They say it would be a catastrophe of human lives lost even during after shocks. They claim it could happen in 2024. 🤷‍♂️ which will come first, an eruption or an earthquake??

[@user-og1ll3br7t]

My guess is an earthquake and I probably only live a couple of hours from there.

[@MyFatherLoves]

The last time it happened, it happened three months after the last time a path of totality from a solar eclipse made an "X" over the united states. This is set to happen again in April. Maybe July will be a good month to go on vacation out of the country? haha

[@AFellowCyberman]

Stop doomscrolling.

[@aaroncampbell2180]

​@MyFatherLoves and when that happened, bells rang in New York and James Madison and First Lady Dolly felt it in the White House. It actually woke them up from their sleep.

[@patinsley]

How will we be ready...?

[@WLM596]

Great speaking voice! Do you narrate audio books?

[@stephenjargiello3735]

Can't we drill ventilation holes in Yellow Stone to reduce the risk of an eruption?

[@tony8570]

O don't want that job. High risk, low pay.

[@stephenjargiello3735]

@@tony8570 It's better than the alternative

[@irenafarm]

@@stephenjargiello3735The video is a bit misleading on how volcanic activity actually works. If we even had the technology to bore down to the magma intrusion (we definitely don’t), opening tiny holes would do absolutely nothing. The volume of the hot spot is miles deep and hundreds of miles wide. It’s not like Dr Pimple Popper. 😂

[@mookyyzed2216]

We can only pray for this🙏

[@pamd4227]

Amen sister, as mentioned in the book of Revelation. 🙌🛐📖

[@hoffenwurdig1356]

I have considered writing a piece of fan fiction where the Mass Effect game universe is one in which Yellowstone's super-eruption occurred on June 27, 2089, long before the events of the first game. It would be fascinating to explore how this event -- in what characters like Commander Shepard would consider to be the past -- altered human social, economic, and political affairs. If one were to suppose that such a thing happened, then that might be part of the in-universe reason why North America in the Mass Effect universe is not divided into the same number of countries as it is today.

[@apolloxiii5574]

Love the last sentence "We will be ready for it" but we worry us sick about a little bit of CO2 rise in the atmosphere. 🤣😂🤣🤣

[@imhimdk1785]

That’s not a little bit co2

[@apolloxiii5574]

@@imhimdk1785 It is a little bit, there were times when it was 10x what we have now and life was way more abundant then it is now, so I don't worry about the climate, I worry about the climate grifters in the government that rob you blind in the name of "climate change".

[@kittenfan7664]

a LITTLE bit? it's a TON. and it's an outragious ammount.

[@josephleigh5570]

A bad video explaining the Yellowstone super volcano. No cone is formed in a super volcano.

[@thareallaura726]

Wow! I believe you need to update your video. The melt under Yellowstone is above 20%. The melt doesn't have to be 50% to produce an eruption. The Toba theory has been disproven. It alone didn't make humans almost go extinct.

[@denny_dens]

literally flipped off the screen when the ash cloud when over me. i had hope 😭

[@luthermcgee3767]

So, despite all this time, plate tectonics, and erosion, it's still in the same place? Shouldn't it have moved several dozen kilometers?? Shutting off the lava tube that reaches the surface?

[@malcolmt7883]

The N American plate moved about 70 miles or so since the first big (Huckleberry Ridge) eruption

[@luthermcgee3767]

@@malcolmt7883 , I thought just as much- so how can it erupt in the same place? The lava tube can't travel with the didplacement.

[@malcolmt7883]

Huckleberry Ridge was the first eruption two million years ago. The current caldera formed around 630,000 years ago, in which time the N American plate moved around 10 miles@@luthermcgee3767

[@_DB.COOPER]

I wish I could eject like that again…

[@JMark-zk5pj]

I was in N. Idaho when St. Helens went up, we breathed the ash clouds and had no effects. What is this razor sharp cement type material?

[@NorEEzta]

There's a really cool caldera in Tanzania called Ngorongoro with several species of predators and prey essentially confined within it.

[@areneesouder]

What would happen if the one in Italy went? It's been acting up lately. That would be interesting to know.

[@ALYoungFuture13]

Europeans would have another excuse to flee from there homeland

[@bibleaday154]

This is like a fiction novel.

[@ryangraper]

Why don't we turn Yellowstone into a giant geo thermal electric plant? Would that cool water going inside the pipes help to keep the earth from melting? I feel like Yellowstone could power the entire country if we just said screw it, turn it into a giant power plant.

[@spider0804]

It has tens or hundreds of thousands of years before it pops. I wish people would focus more on Campi Flegri because there is a literal friggen city on top of it (Naples) and it has only shown signs of getting closer to erupting over the last century.

[@boydwalker161]

If they have drilled into the muck where the Mississippi empties into The Gulf of Mexico have they found any volcanic ash?

[@malcolmt7883]

Yes, there are a lot of cores from that area done mostly by oil companies. It's a continuous record all the way back to the Jurassic. There's hundreds of identified ash layers in various cores.

[@odellgreene234]

​@@malcolmt7883so oil companies have been taking core samples since the Jerassic?

[@Jo61017]

Yellowstone US.....Campi Phlegrei Italia....very dangerous 😔

[@jeremydalton3595]

There's also a super volcano in California not a lot of people know about it.

[@momentary_]

We should set up numerous geothermal plants around Yellowstone and sell cheap electricity to surrounding areas and also use that electricity for any large scale industrial processing. The more heat we draw out, the less likely it is to blow.

[@Bus_em]

If you've ever driven on the I-40 in northern Arizona, around Globe, you will drive through a magma field several miles long, & no volcano's in sight, except for Sunset Crater which is further north about 100 miles.

[@greggreg2263]

Is it possible for all the volcanoes around the world to erupt at once? In a super mega eruption.🌋

[@herogibson]

Possible? Sure. Its possible taylor swift knocks on my door and asks me to marry her.

[@duckduckgoismuchbetter]

​@@herogibsonWhich is worse though?? I can't make up my mind.

[@glenmorgan4597]

That would be cool

[@duckduckgoismuchbetter]

@@glenmorgan4597 "That would be cool" Do you mean in the sense of massively increased global cooling for a few decades?

[@cheritellit]

There should be another video taking into consideration that all volcanoes everywhere are waking up. The connection between them as far as locale and land mass connections need to be investigated.

[@michaelschramm1064]

I learned this some time ago in Simon Winchester’s book “Krakatoa”.

[@mikerilling6515]

CLICKBAIT “ WERE NOT SURE “ “ EXPERTS THINK” “ THE LAST TIME IT ONLY AFFECTED A FEW KILOMETERS IN EACH DIRECTION “ DUDE IS JUST FEARMONGERING

[@jimbeekman4863]

An expert is someone who knows very little about everything.