Will Yellowstone volcano cause the end of the world to erupt?

Scientists confirm that when the Yellowstone volcano erupts, it can have disastrous consequences for the entire planet, and even create a new Ice Age. And approximately every 600,000 years, this giant awakens violently with each eruption, which can cause craters tens of kilometers in diameter. Since the last eruption occurred 640,000 years ago, theoretically it shouldn’t take long for the next to occur.

It is considered a supervolcano as its eruption power can be 100 times greater than that of a conventional volcano. In fact, it is one of the eruptions that geologists around the world fear most. The UN has warned that this exceptional eruption will trigger a worldwide famine in the winter., because it would leave food reserves to survive only a few months. And the repercussions, if anything, would linger for decades.

Scientists have confirmed that Yellowstone has erupted only three times in the last two million years. “It will erupt again, but we don’t know when and at what scale,” said Michael Branney, a volcanologist at the University of Leicester.

However, when that happens, the ash will affect nearly the entire United States and Canada, rendering most of North America uninhabitable. According to simulations performed by various groups of scientists, People living within a radius of 1,000 kilometers will die from the explosion and the emitted ash blocks sunlight, causing a drop in temperatures on the planet by up to ten degrees. This sharp decline could take decades, dramatically changing many ecosystems.

A risky solution

NASA has come to explore ways to cool the volcano and remove the threat its awakening would represent. Brian Wilcox, a former member of NASA’s Planetary Defense Advisory Council and other scientists working to prevent the impact of asteroids and comets, noted: The threat of a supervolcano is much greater than that of an asteroid or comet.”

Wilcox detailed one of NASA’s plans to cool the magma chamber and eliminate the risk of an imminent eruption. The plan includes drilling directly into the room and pumping tons of water to cool it.thus creating a mega power plant. But any attempt to puncture the magma pocket can weaken its integrity and cause an eruption. This is an extremely risky operation, so the project is currently far from being executed.

The University of Utah issued a message of calm, reassuring that there are no visible signs of a catastrophic eruption at this time. They also state that Yellowstone is the best-monitored geological site on the planetIt is continuously monitored by more than 40 seismic stations that record the ground movements in the said region 24 hours a day.

No, humanity will not perish

However, given the alarmism that a lot of media has focused on this issue, the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory itself, which is tasked with monitoring everything that happens inside, recently released a memo explaining what the effects of a possible mega-eruption would actually be. Y The answer is that even then humanity would not perish.

“Of course, the fate of such an explosion would not be pleasant, but we would not perish. How can we know this? Because this super-burst situation has already happened, and also twice,” says the Observatory website.

Scientists from this center explain that the last eruption of the volcano occurred 631,000 years ago and was ten times larger than the giant eruption of Tambora (Indonesia) in 1815 and perhaps 100 times larger than Pinatubo (Philippines) in 1991. Its destructive capacity is undeniable.

Again, There were larger explosions than when humanity already existed, and yet it did not disappear.. These events were Toba (Indonesia) about 74,000 years ago and Taupo (New Zealand) about 26,500 years ago.

Evidence provided by archeology shows that humanity was not endangered by the effects of the Toba explosion. For example, studies of hominin regions (though not necessarily) homo sapiens) shows little change in activity in India before and after the eruption, protected by a widespread ash layer in South Asia.

However, as a result of this great eruption of Toba, the largest volcano ever recorded, significant changes have occurred in living conditions and ecosystems.

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