{"id":27998,"date":"2017-11-15T07:53:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T12:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27998"},"modified":"2017-11-15T07:53:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T12:53:54","slug":"what-would-happen-to-the-world-if-the-yellowstone-super-volcano-erupted-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27998","title":{"rendered":"What Would Happen To The World If The Yellowstone Super Volcano Erupted Right Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Would Happen To The World If The Yellowstone Super Volcano Erupted Right Now?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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With the looming threat of a possible eruption at the Yellowstone super volcano, some preppers have wondered exactly how to prepare for such a cataclysmic event. Here is what would happen should the super volcano erupt right now.<\/p>\n

Yellowstone\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0supervolcano<\/a>\u00a0is essentially a giant, lid-topped cauldron, and it\u2019s so vast that it can only truly be seen from low-Earth orbit. Its crater is 45 miles (72 kilometers) across, and its underlying plumbing contains several tens of thousands of cubic kilometers of magmatic material. But if it were to erupt right now, we would have very little time to even know that it is happening.<\/a><\/p>\n

IFL Science<\/em><\/a> spoke to one of the country\u2019s most respected volcanologists to get the most up-to-date low-down on the future of the world\u2019s\u00a0most famous supervolcano.<\/a>\u00a0Hopefully, it will give preppers and idea of what to expect in the unprecedented event that it actually explodes.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Yellowstone Volcano Observatory\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Scientist-In-Charge, Dr. Michael Poland, the super volcano may not have enough energy at present to produce a supereruption. \u201cRight now, much of Yellowstone\u2019s magma body is partially solidified, and you need a lot of magma to feed a large eruption.\u201d\u00a0The chances of a supervolcanic paroxysm are currently around\u00a0one-in-730,000<\/a>, which makes it less likely than a catastrophic asteroid impact.<\/p>\n

A sudden injection of new magma from\u00a0beneath the caldera<\/a>, or a sudden weakening of the geological layers encasing it, as unlikely as this is, may be enough to trigger a sudden depressurization event, and the entire system would violently expunge onto the surface and up into the atmosphere. What would happen next is speculative, but it may be important to understand just how dire that could be.<\/p>\n

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What Would Happen To The World If The Yellowstone Super Volcano Erupted Right Now? With the looming threat of a possible eruption at the Yellowstone super volcano, some preppers have wondered exactly how to prepare for such a cataclysmic event. Here is what would happen should the super volcano erupt right now. Yellowstone\u2019s\u00a0supervolcano\u00a0is essentially a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6489,17032,6490,15464,17031],"class_list":["post-27998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-mac-slavo","tag-michael-poland","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-supervolcano","tag-yellowstone-supervolcanom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27999,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27998\/revisions\/27999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}