What Will Happen When Yellowstone Erupts

Its crater is 72 kilometers 45 miles across and.
What will happen when yellowstone erupts. A brief guide to the end of the world as he described yellowstone national park would literally be erased from the face of the continent. Lurking beneath yellowstone national park is a massive underground reservoir of magma capped by the park s famous caldera. But when there is an eruption at yellowstone it could be an earth ending event. Science writer bryan walsh explored the subject in frightening detail in his recently published book end times.
Yellowstone national park is located in wyoming usa. Yellowstone s supervolcano is essentially a giant lid topped cauldron and it s so vast that it can only truly be seen from low earth orbit. If yellowstone does erupt again it need not be a large eruption. What would happen.
It would erupt at any moment so what would happen if it did. We all need to realize that yellowstone s eruption is not a matter of if its a matter of when. If the yellowstone supervolcano were to erupt it would happen like this. Underneath is the most powerful largest super volcano on the planet.
So what would happen if yellowstone erupted again. Heat rising from deep within the planet s core would begin to melt the molten rock just below the ground s surface. Scientists scrutinize past supereruptions as well as smaller volcanic blasts to predict what would happen if the yellowstone volcano did blow. 640 000 years ago a super eruption rocked the region.
The when however could be as soon as next year or could be in well over 1000 years from now. Preceding a major yellowstone eruption. Now the us geological survey usgs has revealed exactly what would happen if yellowstone s volcano erupted again.