What If The Yellowstone Super Volcano Erupts Today?
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Lying underneath Yellowstone National Park is one of the world's few Super Volcanoes. 2.1 million years ago it erupted, spewing ash and debris across most of the continental United States. Today, millions of people visit Yellowstone National Park every year to see beautiful scenery, majestic animals, and awe-inspiring geysers. So what if the Yellowstone Super Volcano erupts today?
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I was at least one of the subscribers that asked you to tackle this subject. Really good introductory treatment. Thanks a lot!
Not to point out a little bit of a hole in your research. But Yellowstone also erupted 1.3 million years ago. I agree that this doesn't necessarily mean that we're overdue or anything. But three eruptions in the span of 2.1 million years as opposed to two is a very different deal.
Statistics can be skewed for any result we want, as you have indicated.
What about the campi flegrei supervolcano in Italy? The flegreian fields are probably more active than Yellowstone at the moment
Oh great - 2 sides off the planet with extinction possibilities.
It's actually a Caldera.
Yellowstone Caldera, sometimes referred to as the Yellowstone megacaldera, is a volcanic caldera and megavolcano.
Hopefully, Yellowstone will "pass wind" over a geologically long time, rather than in one giant instantaneous belch!
Fortunately, Wyoming has a very low population density...similar to Mongolia.
No mintion of that
If it explodes the whole of North America will be devastated.
But the ash plume will spread out across the plains killing millions who breathe glass ash into their lungs
Let's just hope it doesn't decide to erupt anytime soon. If it does, we might as well say our goodbyes to life, lol. Really glad you covered this topic ✌️👍
Wouldn’t destroy all of life, just the US. Not that it’s going to happen anytime soon but let’s say it were to erupt soon, you’d have to say goodbye to your country and immigrate to another one.
You missed a super volcano. There's one under the Bay of Naples in Italy.
There's more supervolcanos than listed on this video like the one in Italy and Toba. Could you please update your video to make it more accurate?:)
Out of every doomsday scenario, I think the idea of Yellowstone exploding and dumping glass ash all over would be a very big concern for our health.
They say if Yellowstone erupts again, Rapid City, SD would be 9 foot under ash.
Breathing super-heated gas-glass will not make your lungs happy. They will bleed and you will die painfully.
Dig that. The San Andreas N the Cascadian fault lines are just as treacherous for us in the plains "WHEN" they do crack, think of the results for us. Two major incidences we are faced with. Cold with no sun for food and total darkness. No one to call or reply on for A&A. S.O.S. Be like me and be a "Caveman" now...brush up on the knowledge. It's priceless. The end.
#sorry
ASH IS ONLY ONE OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF A SUPERERUPTION.
YOUR HEALTH IS ONLY AFFEC4TED IF YOU BREATHE. ASH CONTAINS VOLCANIC GLASS, FATAL TO LUNGS.
My biggest takeaway is that I probably wouldn't have to go to work the day after, and that's appealing.
phenomenon: plural is phenomena......2 phenomenA...... a datum is useful & several datA are useful
Nick Zentner teaches geology at Central Washington University. His TH-cam channel has a video "Supervolcanos of the Pacific Northwest". He mentioned Yellowstone.
Glad to read your comment that mentions Nick. His livestreams and videos got me through the lockdown!
Why was the supervolcano under Naples left out from the map?
Such an underrated channel
Great video.
Believe you should have included the volcano at the border of China and North Korea, although I'm uncertain of how much ash was dispersed at last eruption.
I live in South Tx I’ll survive 😎
Most people don't realise that there are two other active supervolcanoes in North America in Long Valley and the Varlles (spelling?) caldera.
Sounds like something Big Geology would say.
I am far more worried about extinction events like Yellowstone or meteors hitting the planet than global warming. We all know yellowstone can erupt at any time....and all you have to do is look at all the craters on the moon to know extinction events are real. Global warming is the least of our worries.
You must not know about the runaway greenhouse effect. That's much closer than Yellowstone. It takes years for the magma viscosity to change to super eruption levels which is easily monitorable, so it's not appearing to be any kind of threat at all. The greenhouse though. It's being constructed with every passing day, another nail gets hammered in uwu
If Mother Nature wants to do it , nobody can stop her .
according to USGS the activity is actually going down,
Its possible to erupt in the next 100 years, but we would know about well ahead of time. But it could also be another few thousand years.
Isn’t Campi Flegrei in Italy also a supervolcano?
Yep
And it's underneath a major city
can you do a geography video on Hawaii/Hawaiian islands volcanoes? Different type of volcano from the yellowstone supervolcano but still would be interesting video
I’m pretty sure we would have an evacuation plan ahead of time.
I live in Denver and Yellowstone erupting has long been my biggest fear. Seriously though... I'm really really really scared of it... Can anyone make me feel better? I'm seriously terrified.
move
@@nukebloc but it's where all my friends and family are :( :(
Move
@@jasonbower7763 Not after the supervolcano erupts, it isn't.
@@stevenschnepp576 WTf! 😢
I am pretty sure phenomenons isn't plural for phenomenon. Cool video though.
Who cares same differnce
'Phenomenons' is commonly used and accepted. 'Phenomena' is the snooty proper usage of Phenomenon in the plural sense.
@@rebaeasler "same difference," she says.
@@helgabruin2261 "Snooty proper"
Tell us more about how you think the degradation of language should be celebrated.
Where is the location shown at 0:13 and at 5:29?
The effects of Pinatubo, Krakatau, Tambora, or a Yellowstone supervolcano sound like the volcanic version of the global Covid pandemic (especially the peak in 2020 and 2021).
Not even close
Don't think you got all those super volcanoes correct. There's definitely one in Italy and I'm sure there are others. Also, you missed an eruption of Yellowstone around 1.3m years.
If it erupts today. I would hug my kids
How does this compare with the Philippines eruption some years back?
20 times bigger.
If it bleeds, it leads.
The Icelandic eruption did more than just disrupt transatlantic air travel from the US to Europe although that may have been all the US news reported? It was anywhere to/from Europe and possibly further afield than that. My parents were stuck in China for a week trying to get back to the UK
From what I've heard there is a dome forming in the lake and there is uplift tilting the lake they are very silent about this
Who's "they"? Cause actual geologists sure aren't worried.
Also the Toba Eruption hypothesis for human bottleneck has been disproven
I live in Minneapolis and if Yellowstone super volcano erupted in May, the ash cover blocking the sunlight would destroy our crops and leave our economy in ashes.....pun intended. 5:03
Could a Russian nuke trigger the Yellowstone super volcano?
WOW!!! WE ARE SEARCHING FOR THE SAME ANSWERS AS RUSSIA THREATENS TO NUKE YELLOWSTONE!!! AMAZING!!!
Luckily, no
No. It has to be an american nuke to make it happen--(sarc)
yay more science
Was the last eruption not 640000 years ago?
This is why im never taking my chances and going to Yellowstone national park. I'm not going to get blown up by a volcano no thanks lol
The Park is Lava
Did you forget about the super eruption 1.4 million years ago?
That was a Bitch’n time!
I believe Yellowstone erupted last about 600,000 years ago, so, we are "due".
Ash going west is not likely.
Надеюсь, Йеллоустоун не взорвётся в ближайшие несколько тысячелетий.
Why have I gone 2 minutes into this video about the Yellowstone volcano without once hearing the word: caldera?
That is because it is not a caldera, however, the Bay of Naples is.
Why don't you speak about the super valcano in Deep Spring California..
St Helens was a 5
Well that does it...I'm not moving to the west coast..sorry
Why don’t we just plug it? 😅😂
They confirmed with another volcano that that doesn't work.
SAE not metric
Think it would be great if it would.
What if 6 was 9 ? What if the sun burns out. What if an asteroid hit us. What if all the nuclear bombs all go off at once.
What if I drill my water well too deep and start an eruption…? 😅
@Louis EVAD? Y'all know that this is what people have asked about. Deal with it
Yellowstone wevill erupt around
I cannot finis
WTU?
What about dying ?
We all die
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
And, what would you say if it didn’t erupt? If it does, there isn’t anything you can do to stop it, a lot of people will die. And if it doesn’t, then you can continue talking about what would happen if it does.
3rd!
Virgin
It undermines the perceived expertise of the presenter when he uses incorrect language. “Natural phenomenons”? Really?
Phenomenons is universally accepted, although phenomena is the proper choice. You are right, though.
Please talk slower. Thank you for all the info
You can slow down the video .1 at a time using the onscreen controls.
It will never happen ....
Who cares!! If it goes, we can't do anything about it!!
Big mess I say big barbie-q
If this does happen, everyone from Alaska to the south western U.S. will be gone.
The ash would reach the east coat !
Mt St Hellen's was a VEI5 NOT 4! This vid is about 95% PURE BS AND GUESSES!
First!
Virgin
It WON'T so just stop now
Yes Ukraine or Kremlin it just russian state why so 🔥 put it back place thanku
second
Virgin
How hard is it to include miles? Do you expect viewers to stop the video and locate a calculation for it? I'm in the USA, not sure what country you're aiming for, maybe only Europe or Europeans?😢
The rest of the world doesnt use USA measurement systems, so ot only makes sense 😊
The planet is only 6000 years old
Except it's not
Genesis 1:2 describes an existing earth. Gen 1:1 "In the beginning" does not tell us when the beginning was. Be very careful when reading to understand what is actually said.
And next you'll tell us dinosaur fossils were put here to test our faith?
There's a difference between artificial catastrophes and natural ones, bruh. Let's keep Russia and Ukraine out of scientific matters, please?
Dude he was simply making a point that even only Ukraine's shortage of wheat exports is bad enough so imagine if the whole USA stopped it's agriculture. It was giving context to how dire the problem would be. Did you watch the video??
@Jason Bower Uh, Doi...🤪
Like I said, "let's keep Russia and Ukraine out of scientific matters, please?"
@@KuulSHep okay, you clearly do not have the mental capacity to absorb information. I'm just going to see my way out of this conversation, no point in trying to educate a caveman.