500 miles in any direction from the volcano ...would be total devastation.....1,000 miles from center in any direction there would be massive destruction.....beyond that ASH CLOUDS destroy all of North America and would circle the earth for years destroying other countries economies completely
It would literally be the ...End of the World....as this erpution would continue for years. This wouldn't be a one day event lol...on the contrary,...it would continue erupting for many years
@TheWhiskeyZone weather goes west to east. Cali is just gonna get a bigger head if it happens cuz the rest of the US will be covered in ash, including east coast!
@Colin2k41 you are a philly retard. you'd be buried under inches of ash, the ash cloud would block out the sun for a few years, plants would die, followed by animals (read..no food for people) the people would die off. You'd be eating Philly cheesesteak made out of people and velveeta you Michael Vick loving loser. Haha Dream team 4-8 loser...suck my a-hole.
Guys we are NOT really overdue for a supereruption there. USGS says that eruptions here are irregular. It may be thousands more years before it goes off. We really don't need to be on high alert. But yes, the effects in this video are realistic
Their are just so many things that need to be taken into consideration. Yes, life can and will go on, ONLY if we are prepared accordingly. LOL, I would love to have to deal with Hawaii's volcanoes instead of Yellowstone. I live in Idaho, and believe it or not, it is talked about quite often here. I mean amongst the residents.
@ The Jessica, is another problem that we would have to face with Yellowstone erupting. You know if it did erupt. Where would we all live, underground? In order for our livestock to survive we would have to take them with us, or become vegans, LOL. But seriously. The human body was made to consume meat, if we do not get the meat that we need, we have to take vitamins for it. I have several friends that are vegans and their health was poor due to the lack of vitamins mean provides.
@ The Jessica, The Hawaiian volcanoes have been erupting now for many years and we have not seen the problems with ash, or gasses or anything that would happen with Yellowstone. Don't get me wrong, yes I do agree with you, Life can go on. But the electricity, well I think we will be facing problems with electricity for many months if not years. Problems with drinking water, we may have that for a long time also. But, it has also been said that Yellowstone erupting has caused an ice age. That
@ The Jessica, Yes life could go on, but looking at Hawaii, is not a good example. The are two very different types of volcanoes. You cannot look at Hawaii and compare it to Yellowstone. Yellowstone would completely devastate the U.S. That is just a very poor comparison. You do not have the severe ash fallout, and the deadly gasses that could encompass the whole earth with the volcanoes in Hawaii. The Hawaiian volcanoes are very calmly erupting volcanoes. Yellowstone would be very violent
when america is gone ill cry i wasnt born in america but i came here when i was four and this is my home now i dont want to leave my home and the poor animals will they avacuate them?
What the hell does dogs have anything to do with this scenario. And yes, during most natural disasters, MANY people die- unless they are prepared for it accordingly. Life will go on for the world, but differently for sure. Who knows, it may happen in the next century where we are either much better prepared or have already destroyed ourselves. Stop replying just to argue. Either say something tangible or go troll on another comment thread.
@TheJessica2525 I do apoligze for coming off rude, as my issue is most certainly not with you. As for the dog comment, it at times seems that the value of human life has been lost; as some will spend thousands on operations for their pets, but assume it is of no consequence when someone they don't know is harmed. The truth of the matter is it could happen in the next centry, but it could also happen tomorrow. "Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. " No attack intended.
The acual eruption wouldn't kill as many people as the ash falling in the bread basket of American and wiping out a huge food source and killing billions of people in an ice age and no air trave
At least I have a home in china I can stay at. The day I see of an earthquake in Yellowstone, I'm buying a ticket out of this country for a loooooong time. Before they can deny any Americans in the country due to refugee status. Think about your exit strategy guys! I'm pretty sure once that blows, crime will skyrocket and it will become every man for himself.
@EpiclsME even though i admire your passion, the 9/11 attack sent small debris over 1/2 a city and took 8 months to clean up. a Yellowstone eruption would send large debris over 1/2 the country. When Yellowstone erupts, it will cover all the breadbasket states in ash. And ash is not like snow, it doesn't just melt away (+its 6 times heavier), if you want to grow crops again you'll have to find a place to put it.. A Yellowstone eruption would devastate the US economy (even more than George Bush).
@gegilso Yellowstone has earthquakes all the time, and further more it erupts every 600,000 years, the last eruption being 630,000 years ago. All signs point to an eruption occurring soon, the precise moment is impossible to know (as vulcanologists are the worst scientists at making predictions). Don't worry though, China will be equally fucked because the land that will be covered in ash produces like a third of the world's wheat products (more of less).
@ghty102 china will not be equally fucked because they don't live off of wheat; wheat products are a very small percentage of their diet. They eat rice. I should know, my wife makes rice every damn day and I haven't eaten any bread for for 3 months. China will totally be fine. Unless the ash blocks out the sun, which it might, which will create a global famine. Then we are all screwed, I'm at least going to try and stay ahead of the curve, it's harsh, but I'm going to survive.
all you need is an underground bunker equipped with that thing that nasa has that turns piss into water, a reliable source of energy, and plants for food and oxygen.
i admit selfishly that i believe the rapture will be first. hope you are are in it too, really. when i read the bible prophecies in the book, The Late, Great Planet Earth, i asked God to literally SAVE me from it all. I was so freaked reading about the Chinese invading countries and the weather stuff to happen, I asked Him to SWOOP me up from it all with His giant hand. By praying that prayer, I was asking Him to be my savior - without realizing it! I became a Christian from it.
@Yurpzee Google "US fault lines map". No place is safe. Geologically speaking the country is a mine field. If the eruption somehow disturbs those, we would have an even bigger problem as some of those are in places where buildings are not made to withstand earthquakes.
@ThePlasticBling The blast wouldn't get to Connecticut, but the ash would. The ash would block the sun and the temperature would drop drastically, but we wouldn't all necessarily die.
@ThePlasticBling we wouldn't all die, but survival would be very difficult. the cold would make growing crops, even if you had seeds, water and equipment very difficult, and animals would have big die offs as well. some would survive but most of the country probably wouldn't
@wadyano What are the chances of a 15 year old in Connecticut dieing? And what about my pets? Because if the news came on and said that the volcano erupted and we got everybody down in our basement I think we could survive. And the presidents got that underground bunker thing so he would deffinately survive... lucky bitch.
Actually, whoever thinks we AREN'T overdue... Well I hate to say this but we are 40,000 years past the due date so let's pray to god this doesn't go off until the future (or never would be nice) but it's gonna happen sometime... Damnit!
i think the us should collect the ash for study... some could even be used as fertilizer but the agriculture to recover would likely take decades if not 200 years... hard to believe mother nature is capable of such violence
@Hurrican3AJ1 ...sooo,linking it into every deep ground gave in the USA and letting it flow and slow down throughout the large cave chain wouldnt do jack? Any other ideas?
I can think of a way to prevent NEW KRAKATOA atleast...since it hasnt hardly came above sea level yet,simply bombard and cause an eruption of that volcano underwater....atleast itd be less damage than if it erupted above the ocean.(if im correct,that body of water is sealed from the rest of the worlds water except rivers)
@Hurrican3AJ1 you would think that people would begin thinking of ways to let off pressure on a super volcano....
Maybe long range drilling from the ocean?
I can imagine making hundreds of tunnels undergroud and then flooding the lava through them would relieve pressure giving the lava more room to spread.
Life could go on people, please. Crops could be grown inside, under artificial light. Power plants could still produce electricity by burning coal or use geothermal power. Water could be cleaned and treated in different means...most water supplied to your city stays in storage tanks or is pumped from underground COVERED lines. Ash, in due time, and in certain quantities can stimulate plant growth-- look at Hawaii. Life will go on, but the US will not be the same super power....
@TheJessica2525 exactly we even just made a way to make power from waves of water where i live we could get energy from Lake Erie make artificial light in order to grow indoor gardens. And i bought myself a gas-mask lol. I live in Ohio so i would get ash but very little
@TheJessica2525 Where exactly are you planning to grow those crops? Also remember that the ash is not like regular dust, it destroys air filter so operating machinery will be expensive. The ash will spread on the entire planet making fast travel impossible. It will become costly to move goods across the country thanks to the heavy impact of ash on mahcinery. If me somehow manage to limit the casualties we will still be screwed economically. I don't think the country will recover.
@celderian I would think that in cases where food is life, the expense of operating machinery comes secondary. As for crops, there are vast indoor crops already growing within California. Yes, energy is going to be a huge problem, but it is an alternative. As for where, warehouses. As for economic recovery- start buying land in other places. I think humanity is due for another stone age or at least another bottleneck anyways.
@TheJessica2525 the us would be back in the stonage. power would likely go out, cars and other vehicles would be inoperable because ash would choke it, and the air would be mostly unbreathable. yes it makes for fertile farmland centuries later, but most of the us would be wiped out.
@wadyano You will need to look back and see how long ash remains suspended in air -let alone how long a super volcano would pump ash out in the first place. Secondly, car air filters can be cleaned, or cars can use modified snorkels otherwise. People that have lived in eruptions could deal with it. explain how power would go out and stay out if power is being derived from the terrible coal burning plants or geothermal? solar understandably. How about Hoover Dam? Lots to think about
@TheJessica2525 a supervdepending on the length of the eruption, ash could be pumped out for days and in huge quanitites. volcanic ash is dense and heavy. it would tear down powerlines under the weight, and short things out and unlike snow or rain, it doesn't just melt away. finer particles of ash could remain in the air for many days and travel thousands of miles on the wind. and how do you think we'ed get to the coal mines under all that ash? how would we transport it accross buried roads?
@TheJessica2525 and with possibly hundreds of thousands dead and much the american landscape forever chaged, who do you think would be going to work at the mines and power plants. how about the gas to power the cars? transporting them would be nearly impossible for at least months. ash doesn't go away on its own like water, fire or snow or tornadoes. the effects of a supervolcano would devastate this country on levels you'r not letting yourself conceive.
@TheJessica2525 and with possibly hundreds of thousands dead and much the american landscape forever chaged, who do you think would be going to work at the mines and power plants. how about the gas to power the cars? transporting them would be nearly impossible for at least months. ash doesn't go away on its own like water, fire or snow or tornadoes. the effects of a supervolcano would devastate this country on levels you're not letting yourself conceive. livestock and crops would die
@oldmanburning Yeah because all the crops in the world would magically disappear the second it erupted and we wouldn't have any reserves to last us until we could grow new ones. Probably wouldn't have any nuts or eggs or animals or fish or potatoes or rice from other countries either. (MASSIVE SARCASM)
@ghty102 I have not tried growing crops in ash, have you? I don't intend living in the ashiness, I intend leaving and going to a place that doesn't have ash, or have a diet not consisting of U.S. crops like rice and fungus that thrives off of dead plant matter (which I also regularly eat). Think about this, throughout history, and all of the disasters, animals have survived, we are proof of that. There will be food, somewhere, and I'm going to get to it first, for my family. Surv of the fittest.
@TheJessica2525 No shit life would go on. If one were to drop a nuke on one out of every 5 houses in the world life would still go on in bacteria underground.
@TheJessica2525 hmm...what about the fact that alot of people would DIE....but no big deal right, we would probably still have our dogs -_- ..americans (shaking my head)
@KarinthaK What the hell does dogs have anything to do with this scenario. And yes, during most natural disasters, MANY people die- unless they are prepared for it accordingly. Life will go on for the world, but differently for sure. Who knows, it may happen in the next century where we are either much better prepared or have already destroyed ourselves. Stop replying just to argue. Either say something tangible or go troll on another comment thread.
What does being an American have anything to do with this scenario, besides obviously it would happen on OUR LAND. Please, save your obviously biased blithering comments for a more nationally motivated comment thread and not something dealing with something as real as a total bottleneck of the WORLDS population.
@KarinthaK What does being an American have anything to do with this scenario, besides obviously it would happen on OUR LAND. Please, save your obviously biased blithering comments for a more nationally motivated comment thread and not something dealing with something as real as a total bottleneck of the WORLDS population.
@Gaaraissomineforever No one would be safe. If you didn't die in the eruption, you would likely perish in the aftermath. No food, no electricity, no water. Fun, eh?
there was a movie made a bout this and its past its erupting date its been 40.000 years longer than it should have erupted fuck we will be screwed if this goes off. lets hope that it doesnt
@thylings If/When the Yellowstone Caldera explodes, everything east of the volcano will see extreme volcanic ash. Most of the USA will see heavy ashfall. In Pennsylvania, the ash cloud would hit 6-8 hours after the eruption. Yes, people there will survive, but, their existence would be short-lived. You have to remember that the heartland of the country would be gone. Buried under feet os ash.
@ryukisawsome Depends where at in Arizona and the prevailing winds that day. If the jet stream is protecting the state, that buys time, but, experts believe that most of the lower 48 would be affected. Basically, it would be the end of the USA as we know it. I shudder to consider a death toll here. It will be in the millions.
I'd rather have tornadoes and all the usual disasters we have, all around me, than to have this go off! At least one can recover eventually from those things. This, however, could take 6 or more years to recover from, and in the meantime we have famine, lack of clean water, ash collapsing everything, constant freezing winter conditions... I don't even like to think about how it would be.
Theres actually 4 supervolcanos in the US (including yellowstone) and they are all close to each other (California, Wyoming, New Mexico,& Colorado) and if one were to erupt im sure it would cause a chain reaction if you know what I mean.
all supervolcanos are cut off by a huge area of the earth's rock... unless the supervolcano is able to get close enough to connect to another supervolcano like Wyoming's supervolcano gets close enough to melt the rock between yellowstone and wyoming then it would chain react and probably become more powerfull then a hypercane
from my conclusion if this would have happen right now , we would have to wear al least a double thick layer of clothing more like the suite from kill zone 2 if you have ever played it you know what i mean
stay away from wearing to much clothing during an ash cloud because the weight of the clothes+the ash would weigh down your stamina and probably make you collapse. so its safer to wear very warm clothing but not to much
@RustyEraser Well I live only about 500 miles away from Yellowstone Park, in eastern Washington, and as far as I know there's no mountains in between me and it. LOL But the ash is going to be carried so high in the atmospher that it will fall on everyone, and even if it doesn't the ash cloud will still cause an indefinite winter and no food. So no matter where you live, mountains or not, we'll all be fucked. lol
not really... the ash cloud will go WAY past the mountains... its a good 50 miles in the atmosphere so unless a range of mount st. Everest's is in the way then California will be getting the ash cloud...
"Very Unlikely" is an absolutely true statement, but it must be tempered by this fact: We do NOT know when Yellowstone Caldera will erupt again. Let's assume it erupted exactly 640,000 years ago. Do you think those living 640,001 years ago knew the dangers they faced? Fortunately, we'll probably have ample warning, but I think we need to recognize the need to be vigilant. It's calm now--and hopefully will remain so for another 20,000 years, but still, nature doesn't care for "conditions"!
ive been reading this book since elementary school and ive learded how to protect urself from it. I lost the book tho :( it was probably the coolest book ive ever read, heres the name "most dangerous things in the worlds"
Toba was about 75,000 years ago. And helped trigger an iceage that was already in the works.
kinda of reminds me of now, we are coming into another mini ice age at least, or a full on ice age maybe, not for a while. But if yellowstone or another large volcanic eruption happens, it could help speed up any ice age looming
omg for some reason i just want to witness this and im not even into science just learned about this stuff today in highschool, i know i wouldent survive but to see that thing blow would be sick.
and dont forget the huge uranium reserves that the super volcano sit atop. that saying in addition to the eruption devastation, the wind would vastly spread the toxic chemical very far. stduies say that thyroid cancer would be the first to strike
Hmm... How to prepare? 1. Stock about 3 years of canned food because that's how log they said the growing season would be knocked out (although I'd pack 2 extra years just in case.) 2. Get plenty of face masks (I already have plenty of those for a possible swine flew outbreak) 3. Buy 2 story ladder and shovels to make sure the roof doesn't collapse from the weight of ash buildup. 4. Buy gun. (lets be realistic folks, I hate guns, but given the situation it's probably a wise choice to have one.)
Considering how we humans will do anything to survive, number 3 is a wise decision. Who knows how life will be in the aftermath of the Yellowstone eruption.
I wonder how bad the ash clouds would effect the North Eastern part of the US. Mainly Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, and Washington D.C.? I know that temps would plummet, but how much ash would we be buried in?
lol at the "see you later USA" comments. It's worse for the world for it to blow up on the US than some islands far off in the Pacific. Hate it or not it's not possible to remove the dependency other nations have on how well the US economy is doing. I figure people don't know what they have to depend on until they totally lose it.
If the cloud diagram shown here is accurate then California wouldn't be covered in ash, but you'd feel the effect on the climate. It would get significantly cooler to the point of having sub freezing temps in places like LA and San Diego. Not to mention that California would have to deal with hundreds of thousands of survivors who would be refugees in your state,assuming your from California. So you would be burned alive, but you would have to deal with the food shortages and chaos that ensued.
Pyroclastic flows are like land waves, instead that they are much more slower and by will stop much more earlier then a tidal wave...ALSO YELLOWSTONE IS ALSO OVERDUE.
In 1815 Mt. Tambora erupted w/ a rating of seven on the Volcanic Explosivity Index...out of 8. In 1816 in the north hemisphere was known as the year w/out a Summer That means it only ejects about 100 km. A regular explosion of a supervolcano is normally 10 times more powerful then that
Actually, the US government has in place a emergency plan in which should a super eruption in Yellow Stone occur, all survivors are to converge on Rhode Island and eat the population.
Well either way, if a super volcano goes off in the US that pretty much just took out most of the farm land. It would also cause an economic collapse and probably turn North America into a third world nation. Now as far as ending civilization and our genus, we will survive. Human kind and it's ancestors already survived a few of these. =)
Bad news; there are TWO supervolcanoes in the USA alone, Yellowstone Caldera in Wyoming and Long Valley Caldera in California. And at Long Valley, it's actually overdue.
How about New York, How affected would we be?
Gokut0 6 days ago
FUCK!!! I live in Montana.
MyDachshund1 1 month ago
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MyDachshund1 1 month ago
Glad i live in pittsburgh
dj1501248 1 month ago
this is crazy because to think that there on a big voc. like that its craz
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500 miles in any direction from the volcano ...would be total devastation.....1,000 miles from center in any direction there would be massive destruction.....beyond that ASH CLOUDS destroy all of North America and would circle the earth for years destroying other countries economies completely
It would literally be the ...End of the World....as this erpution would continue for years. This wouldn't be a one day event lol...on the contrary,...it would continue erupting for many years
MatrixFactoryGuy 2 months ago
boy am i glad i live on the east coast!
TheWhiskeyZone 3 months ago 9
@TheWhiskeyZone Dude if this thing erupts. WE'RE ALL FUCKED. Mankind would be dead within a couple of years.
Synicaalescape 1 month ago 2
@TheWhiskeyZone I feel ya,
TDLxfam0usxFANSONLY 1 month ago
@TheWhiskeyZone weather goes west to east. Cali is just gonna get a bigger head if it happens cuz the rest of the US will be covered in ash, including east coast!
ColonelAXV 1 month ago
@ColonelAXV california will no longer exist dude stfu
TheWhiskeyZone 1 month ago
@TheWhiskeyZone you would still be affected, it would effect the whole world
funnyvidsmaster12 3 weeks ago
has this erupted before
sydneycrosbysucks 4 months ago
@sydneycrosbysucks i think i read somewhere the last eruption was 640,000 years ago.
zDiGii 4 months ago
@sydneycrosbysucks yes over 2 million years ago
eco0924 2 months ago
@sydneycrosbysucks it erupts on a 600,000 year cycle, and its last eruption was 640,000 years ago.
theSicilianToe 1 month ago
would this hugely affect washington, not to be annoying
cowudder42 5 months ago
@cowudder42 This would probably most definitely hit washingtion (the ash cloud) if this does happen i will probably just get a plane ticket to europe
zDiGii 4 months ago
@zDiGii planes wont fly if this erupts lol theyll fall right out of the sky why do you think they ground planes when little volcanoes erupt
theSicilianToe 1 month ago
I live in Virginia; could this affect me?
flarn2006 5 months ago
@flarn2006 probably not. but those earthquakes sure might!
Cbjfan8 5 months ago
@Cbjfan8 what about kentucky?
guitarcrusher55 5 months ago
@flarn2006 I live in philly, all that would happen would we would be hit with an ash could, thats about it
Colin2k41 2 months ago
@Colin2k41 you are a philly retard. you'd be buried under inches of ash, the ash cloud would block out the sun for a few years, plants would die, followed by animals (read..no food for people) the people would die off. You'd be eating Philly cheesesteak made out of people and velveeta you Michael Vick loving loser. Haha Dream team 4-8 loser...suck my a-hole.
underthefornix 1 month ago
@underthefornix Well for one, I dont eat meat or plants, and I'm a seahawks fan. And yes I understand that, but we could move to other spots :D
Colin2k41 1 month ago
@flarn2006 ya the ash would spread all around the world
USMC807 1 month ago
Guys we are NOT really overdue for a supereruption there. USGS says that eruptions here are irregular. It may be thousands more years before it goes off. We really don't need to be on high alert. But yes, the effects in this video are realistic
matteng1997 6 months ago
Their are just so many things that need to be taken into consideration. Yes, life can and will go on, ONLY if we are prepared accordingly. LOL, I would love to have to deal with Hawaii's volcanoes instead of Yellowstone. I live in Idaho, and believe it or not, it is talked about quite often here. I mean amongst the residents.
MsJadedmind 6 months ago
@ The Jessica, is another problem that we would have to face with Yellowstone erupting. You know if it did erupt. Where would we all live, underground? In order for our livestock to survive we would have to take them with us, or become vegans, LOL. But seriously. The human body was made to consume meat, if we do not get the meat that we need, we have to take vitamins for it. I have several friends that are vegans and their health was poor due to the lack of vitamins mean provides.
MsJadedmind 6 months ago
@ The Jessica, The Hawaiian volcanoes have been erupting now for many years and we have not seen the problems with ash, or gasses or anything that would happen with Yellowstone. Don't get me wrong, yes I do agree with you, Life can go on. But the electricity, well I think we will be facing problems with electricity for many months if not years. Problems with drinking water, we may have that for a long time also. But, it has also been said that Yellowstone erupting has caused an ice age. That
MsJadedmind 6 months ago
@ The Jessica, Yes life could go on, but looking at Hawaii, is not a good example. The are two very different types of volcanoes. You cannot look at Hawaii and compare it to Yellowstone. Yellowstone would completely devastate the U.S. That is just a very poor comparison. You do not have the severe ash fallout, and the deadly gasses that could encompass the whole earth with the volcanoes in Hawaii. The Hawaiian volcanoes are very calmly erupting volcanoes. Yellowstone would be very violent
MsJadedmind 6 months ago
when america is gone ill cry i wasnt born in america but i came here when i was four and this is my home now i dont want to leave my home and the poor animals will they avacuate them?
adsweaty 7 months ago
@adsweaty probably not\, there's too many of them. It'll probably cause the extinction of native animals in the radius. Sad :(
halflifefan84 6 months ago
What the hell does dogs have anything to do with this scenario. And yes, during most natural disasters, MANY people die- unless they are prepared for it accordingly. Life will go on for the world, but differently for sure. Who knows, it may happen in the next century where we are either much better prepared or have already destroyed ourselves. Stop replying just to argue. Either say something tangible or go troll on another comment thread.
TheJessica2525 7 months ago
@TheJessica2525 I do apoligze for coming off rude, as my issue is most certainly not with you. As for the dog comment, it at times seems that the value of human life has been lost; as some will spend thousands on operations for their pets, but assume it is of no consequence when someone they don't know is harmed. The truth of the matter is it could happen in the next centry, but it could also happen tomorrow. "Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. " No attack intended.
KarinthaK 7 months ago
thank god i live in miami wait but what if theres a tsunami OH FUCK.....
TH3TROLLMAST3R 7 months ago
@TH3TROLLMAST3R ...the Canary Islands will get the East coast.
MrTurtleII 7 months ago
If I live in Oregon and Yellow stone exploded, would the super ash cloud come towards here or not? answer I just want to know
miskaeune05 8 months ago
good to know im on the opposite side of the country
FBGMization 8 months ago
The acual eruption wouldn't kill as many people as the ash falling in the bread basket of American and wiping out a huge food source and killing billions of people in an ice age and no air trave
jmulligan14 9 months ago
At least I have a home in china I can stay at. The day I see of an earthquake in Yellowstone, I'm buying a ticket out of this country for a loooooong time. Before they can deny any Americans in the country due to refugee status. Think about your exit strategy guys! I'm pretty sure once that blows, crime will skyrocket and it will become every man for himself.
gegilso 9 months ago
@gegilso Thats not what happened durring the 9/11 attack, people stick together when they need help.
EpiclsME 8 months ago
@EpiclsME even though i admire your passion, the 9/11 attack sent small debris over 1/2 a city and took 8 months to clean up. a Yellowstone eruption would send large debris over 1/2 the country. When Yellowstone erupts, it will cover all the breadbasket states in ash. And ash is not like snow, it doesn't just melt away (+its 6 times heavier), if you want to grow crops again you'll have to find a place to put it.. A Yellowstone eruption would devastate the US economy (even more than George Bush).
ghty102 7 months ago
@gegilso Yellowstone has earthquakes all the time, and further more it erupts every 600,000 years, the last eruption being 630,000 years ago. All signs point to an eruption occurring soon, the precise moment is impossible to know (as vulcanologists are the worst scientists at making predictions). Don't worry though, China will be equally fucked because the land that will be covered in ash produces like a third of the world's wheat products (more of less).
ghty102 7 months ago
@ghty102 china will not be equally fucked because they don't live off of wheat; wheat products are a very small percentage of their diet. They eat rice. I should know, my wife makes rice every damn day and I haven't eaten any bread for for 3 months. China will totally be fine. Unless the ash blocks out the sun, which it might, which will create a global famine. Then we are all screwed, I'm at least going to try and stay ahead of the curve, it's harsh, but I'm going to survive.
gegilso 7 months ago
all you need is an underground bunker equipped with that thing that nasa has that turns piss into water, a reliable source of energy, and plants for food and oxygen.
ordian17 9 months ago
Just remember to sweep your roof and you'll be fine :-P
Fedcop78 9 months ago
i admit selfishly that i believe the rapture will be first. hope you are are in it too, really. when i read the bible prophecies in the book, The Late, Great Planet Earth, i asked God to literally SAVE me from it all. I was so freaked reading about the Chinese invading countries and the weather stuff to happen, I asked Him to SWOOP me up from it all with His giant hand. By praying that prayer, I was asking Him to be my savior - without realizing it! I became a Christian from it.
williamsea10 10 months ago
Come on Rapture - beam me up God, I'm ready.
williamsea10 10 months ago
@williamsea10 hahahahhah nope your staying here mother fucker >:)
fummshizle 10 months ago
good thing I live in florida
Yurpzee 10 months ago
@Yurpzee Google "US fault lines map". No place is safe. Geologically speaking the country is a mine field. If the eruption somehow disturbs those, we would have an even bigger problem as some of those are in places where buildings are not made to withstand earthquakes.
celderian 10 months ago
Would it hit Connecticut? I heard that if it erupted it would block the sun and we would all die. Is this true?
ThePlasticBling 10 months ago
@ThePlasticBling The blast wouldn't get to Connecticut, but the ash would. The ash would block the sun and the temperature would drop drastically, but we wouldn't all necessarily die.
tubby4619 10 months ago
@tubby4619 Thanks, that makes me feel better :)
But how cold would it get, and wouldn't the ash burn people because it's so hot?
ThePlasticBling 10 months ago
@ThePlasticBling we wouldn't all die, but survival would be very difficult. the cold would make growing crops, even if you had seeds, water and equipment very difficult, and animals would have big die offs as well. some would survive but most of the country probably wouldn't
wadyano 10 months ago
@wadyano What are the chances of a 15 year old in Connecticut dieing? And what about my pets? Because if the news came on and said that the volcano erupted and we got everybody down in our basement I think we could survive. And the presidents got that underground bunker thing so he would deffinately survive... lucky bitch.
ThePlasticBling 10 months ago
@ThePlasticBling i can't answer that. im just as worried. i have kids and the fear of not being able to protect my babies is paralyzing
wadyano 10 months ago
@wadyano you can come to my house :)
ThePlasticBling 10 months ago
@ThePlasticBling The presidents bunker only has food to last 3years I saw a show about it.
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Vegna24 11 months ago
Actually, whoever thinks we AREN'T overdue... Well I hate to say this but we are 40,000 years past the due date so let's pray to god this doesn't go off until the future (or never would be nice) but it's gonna happen sometime... Damnit!
dustinmesch100 11 months ago
would it hit california?? if it erupt??
aphlikshunrocks 11 months ago
@aphlikshunrocks
Um, yeah. He said most of the western USA. Thank god I live in GA. And I heard the Japan earthquake is making the supervolcano stir. Good luck.
SinSeared 10 months ago
@SinSeared You are not safe either. Look up "New Madrid fault line".
celderian 10 months ago
i think the us should collect the ash for study... some could even be used as fertilizer but the agriculture to recover would likely take decades if not 200 years... hard to believe mother nature is capable of such violence
GladDestronger 1 year ago
Well thank god i live in Florida XD
DefenceDon 1 year ago
Destroy yellow stone so this dont happen
280conker 1 year ago
@280conker How the fuck do you expect to destroy a volcano?
darkspear65 1 year ago
@darkspear65 Chuck Noriss
280conker 1 year ago
@280conker Good point. But he's in hiding... Damn it...
darkspear65 1 year ago
and after all this america wouild be invaded and would be hell on earth. the end
zvz2ezzvz 1 year ago
man at the end it looks like america is covered by a big white sperm.
XXF2XX 1 year ago
@Hurrican3AJ1 ...sooo,linking it into every deep ground gave in the USA and letting it flow and slow down throughout the large cave chain wouldnt do jack? Any other ideas?
I can think of a way to prevent NEW KRAKATOA atleast...since it hasnt hardly came above sea level yet,simply bombard and cause an eruption of that volcano underwater....atleast itd be less damage than if it erupted above the ocean.(if im correct,that body of water is sealed from the rest of the worlds water except rivers)
Circuit 1 year ago
@Hurrican3AJ1 you would think that people would begin thinking of ways to let off pressure on a super volcano....
Maybe long range drilling from the ocean?
I can imagine making hundreds of tunnels undergroud and then flooding the lava through them would relieve pressure giving the lava more room to spread.
Circuit 1 year ago
THAT...would be bad. ppl mother nature is still in charge.
tjtom44 1 year ago
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Sykplaya198 1 year ago
Life could go on people, please. Crops could be grown inside, under artificial light. Power plants could still produce electricity by burning coal or use geothermal power. Water could be cleaned and treated in different means...most water supplied to your city stays in storage tanks or is pumped from underground COVERED lines. Ash, in due time, and in certain quantities can stimulate plant growth-- look at Hawaii. Life will go on, but the US will not be the same super power....
TheJessica2525 1 year ago 11
@TheJessica2525 exactly we even just made a way to make power from waves of water where i live we could get energy from Lake Erie make artificial light in order to grow indoor gardens. And i bought myself a gas-mask lol. I live in Ohio so i would get ash but very little
SenorMatthew 1 year ago
@TheJessica2525 Where exactly are you planning to grow those crops? Also remember that the ash is not like regular dust, it destroys air filter so operating machinery will be expensive. The ash will spread on the entire planet making fast travel impossible. It will become costly to move goods across the country thanks to the heavy impact of ash on mahcinery. If me somehow manage to limit the casualties we will still be screwed economically. I don't think the country will recover.
celderian 10 months ago
@celderian I would think that in cases where food is life, the expense of operating machinery comes secondary. As for crops, there are vast indoor crops already growing within California. Yes, energy is going to be a huge problem, but it is an alternative. As for where, warehouses. As for economic recovery- start buying land in other places. I think humanity is due for another stone age or at least another bottleneck anyways.
TheJessica2525 10 months ago
@TheJessica2525 the us would be back in the stonage. power would likely go out, cars and other vehicles would be inoperable because ash would choke it, and the air would be mostly unbreathable. yes it makes for fertile farmland centuries later, but most of the us would be wiped out.
wadyano 10 months ago
@wadyano You will need to look back and see how long ash remains suspended in air -let alone how long a super volcano would pump ash out in the first place. Secondly, car air filters can be cleaned, or cars can use modified snorkels otherwise. People that have lived in eruptions could deal with it. explain how power would go out and stay out if power is being derived from the terrible coal burning plants or geothermal? solar understandably. How about Hoover Dam? Lots to think about
TheJessica2525 10 months ago
@TheJessica2525 a supervdepending on the length of the eruption, ash could be pumped out for days and in huge quanitites. volcanic ash is dense and heavy. it would tear down powerlines under the weight, and short things out and unlike snow or rain, it doesn't just melt away. finer particles of ash could remain in the air for many days and travel thousands of miles on the wind. and how do you think we'ed get to the coal mines under all that ash? how would we transport it accross buried roads?
wadyano 10 months ago
@TheJessica2525 and with possibly hundreds of thousands dead and much the american landscape forever chaged, who do you think would be going to work at the mines and power plants. how about the gas to power the cars? transporting them would be nearly impossible for at least months. ash doesn't go away on its own like water, fire or snow or tornadoes. the effects of a supervolcano would devastate this country on levels you'r not letting yourself conceive.
wadyano 10 months ago
@TheJessica2525 and with possibly hundreds of thousands dead and much the american landscape forever chaged, who do you think would be going to work at the mines and power plants. how about the gas to power the cars? transporting them would be nearly impossible for at least months. ash doesn't go away on its own like water, fire or snow or tornadoes. the effects of a supervolcano would devastate this country on levels you're not letting yourself conceive. livestock and crops would die
wadyano 10 months ago
@TheJessica2525 Ya u can grow crops with artificial light but it's not like it takes an hour to grow u would starve to death before it grew.
oldmanburning 9 months ago
@oldmanburning Yeah because all the crops in the world would magically disappear the second it erupted and we wouldn't have any reserves to last us until we could grow new ones. Probably wouldn't have any nuts or eggs or animals or fish or potatoes or rice from other countries either. (MASSIVE SARCASM)
gegilso 9 months ago
@gegilso ever tried to grow crops in ash?
ghty102 7 months ago
@ghty102 I have not tried growing crops in ash, have you? I don't intend living in the ashiness, I intend leaving and going to a place that doesn't have ash, or have a diet not consisting of U.S. crops like rice and fungus that thrives off of dead plant matter (which I also regularly eat). Think about this, throughout history, and all of the disasters, animals have survived, we are proof of that. There will be food, somewhere, and I'm going to get to it first, for my family. Surv of the fittest.
gegilso 7 months ago
@TheJessica2525 except the part where no one is prepared for it and we all die, yes. You're right.
screwoffreg 8 months ago
@TheJessica2525 No shit life would go on. If one were to drop a nuke on one out of every 5 houses in the world life would still go on in bacteria underground.
EpiclsME 8 months ago
@TheJessica2525 hmm...what about the fact that alot of people would DIE....but no big deal right, we would probably still have our dogs -_- ..americans (shaking my head)
KarinthaK 7 months ago
@KarinthaK What the hell does dogs have anything to do with this scenario. And yes, during most natural disasters, MANY people die- unless they are prepared for it accordingly. Life will go on for the world, but differently for sure. Who knows, it may happen in the next century where we are either much better prepared or have already destroyed ourselves. Stop replying just to argue. Either say something tangible or go troll on another comment thread.
TheJessica2525 7 months ago
What does being an American have anything to do with this scenario, besides obviously it would happen on OUR LAND. Please, save your obviously biased blithering comments for a more nationally motivated comment thread and not something dealing with something as real as a total bottleneck of the WORLDS population.
TheJessica2525 7 months ago 4
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@KarinthaK What does being an American have anything to do with this scenario, besides obviously it would happen on OUR LAND. Please, save your obviously biased blithering comments for a more nationally motivated comment thread and not something dealing with something as real as a total bottleneck of the WORLDS population.
TheJessica2525 7 months ago
I live in washington, am I safe?
Gaaraissomineforever 1 year ago
@Gaaraissomineforever No one would be safe. If you didn't die in the eruption, you would likely perish in the aftermath. No food, no electricity, no water. Fun, eh?
rcharding 1 year ago
AHHA i live in delaware i survive but this means no more lakers :(
bballshawn24wallace 1 year ago
New York dude i think i'm safe LOL
freakykid1002 1 year ago
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@freakykid1002 no, you will die from hunger and dehydration
brb941 1 year ago
there was a movie made a bout this and its past its erupting date its been 40.000 years longer than it should have erupted fuck we will be screwed if this goes off. lets hope that it doesnt
InTeRvEnTiOnxxKAOS 1 year ago
I'm in WAY north Pennsylvania.
I think I'll survive.
thylings 1 year ago
@thylings sorry to ruin it for you but since the jet stream is always flowing west to east pennsalvania will be affected alot
4brotherskids 1 year ago
@thylings If/When the Yellowstone Caldera explodes, everything east of the volcano will see extreme volcanic ash. Most of the USA will see heavy ashfall. In Pennsylvania, the ash cloud would hit 6-8 hours after the eruption. Yes, people there will survive, but, their existence would be short-lived. You have to remember that the heartland of the country would be gone. Buried under feet os ash.
Splinter48708 1 year ago
@thylings no, you will die. In fact, the whole world will die. The ash cloud will cover the earth.
brb941 1 year ago
sorry...i really just learned where it is. thanks ninjaturtle9795 4 pointing that out.i thought it was in colorado or something.
i live in arizona........is that far enough?????
ryukisawsome 1 year ago
@ryukisawsome Depends where at in Arizona and the prevailing winds that day. If the jet stream is protecting the state, that buys time, but, experts believe that most of the lower 48 would be affected. Basically, it would be the end of the USA as we know it. I shudder to consider a death toll here. It will be in the millions.
Splinter48708 1 year ago
@Splinter48708 Eventually, the ash cloud would make it all the way back around, so no one could escape its effects
RoxRock4ever 1 year ago
Yellowstone is in wyoming
NinjaTurtle9795 1 year ago
everyone is complaining about virginia and wyoming......
i live in arizona!!!!!!!!!
ryukisawsome 1 year ago
Aww shit, I live in Denver CO only about 563 Miles away from Yellowstone. SHIT.
TymesRhymes 1 year ago
:O if i live in virginia is that far enough ._.
Monster3234 1 year ago
@Monster3234 Yes it is i live in VA and To washington thats about Around 2000 miles
stir34 1 year ago
Aw shit, I live in Wyoming...
NinjaTurtle9795 1 year ago
@Hurrican3AJ1
correct but America+Canada would suffer the blunt of the ash cloud and other countries would have prepared by the time the ash cloud drifted over
whitesonic1 1 year ago
I'd rather have tornadoes and all the usual disasters we have, all around me, than to have this go off! At least one can recover eventually from those things. This, however, could take 6 or more years to recover from, and in the meantime we have famine, lack of clean water, ash collapsing everything, constant freezing winter conditions... I don't even like to think about how it would be.
tall32guy 1 year ago
Theres actually 4 supervolcanos in the US (including yellowstone) and they are all close to each other (California, Wyoming, New Mexico,& Colorado) and if one were to erupt im sure it would cause a chain reaction if you know what I mean.
Slash1117 1 year ago
@Slash1117
all supervolcanos are cut off by a huge area of the earth's rock... unless the supervolcano is able to get close enough to connect to another supervolcano like Wyoming's supervolcano gets close enough to melt the rock between yellowstone and wyoming then it would chain react and probably become more powerfull then a hypercane
whitesonic1 1 year ago
from my conclusion if this would have happen right now , we would have to wear al least a double thick layer of clothing more like the suite from kill zone 2 if you have ever played it you know what i mean
cammander263 1 year ago
@cammander263
stay away from wearing to much clothing during an ash cloud because the weight of the clothes+the ash would weigh down your stamina and probably make you collapse. so its safer to wear very warm clothing but not to much
whitesonic1 1 year ago
Ka boom then every bodys fucked
chase8148 1 year ago 6
@jacen235 ironic isn't it
chase8148 1 year ago
were all the fucked D:
jaylang121 1 year ago
So the pacific coast might be protected from a lot of ash because of the mountains?
I hope so! I live in California.
I just hope it never erupts, so everyone will be safe.
RustyEraser 1 year ago
I live in california too but it will eventualy happen we just dont know when
jasonsteel1002 1 year ago
@RustyEraser Well I live only about 500 miles away from Yellowstone Park, in eastern Washington, and as far as I know there's no mountains in between me and it. LOL But the ash is going to be carried so high in the atmospher that it will fall on everyone, and even if it doesn't the ash cloud will still cause an indefinite winter and no food. So no matter where you live, mountains or not, we'll all be fucked. lol
tall32guy 1 year ago
@tall32guy D; Even China?
RustyEraser 1 year ago
@RustyEraser Umm yeahhhh even China. LOL!
tall32guy 1 year ago
@RustyEraser
not really... the ash cloud will go WAY past the mountains... its a good 50 miles in the atmosphere so unless a range of mount st. Everest's is in the way then California will be getting the ash cloud...
whitesonic1 1 year ago
Well, Colorado's doomed.
HomestarYoshi 1 year ago
@HomestarYoshi So are the tourists at Yellowstone.
Arathel1 1 year ago
@HomestarYoshi learn your geography. Wyoming is the one that has the volcano, Colorado is the southern square state
RoxRock4ever 1 year ago
@RoxRock4ever I know that much, I live in Colorado. I'm just making a passive joke.
HomestarYoshi 1 year ago
bottom line is no one knows for sure!
bob1966able 1 year ago
yellowstone isnt the only supervolcano in north america. long valley caldera, la garita, and bennett lake.
evilwatermelon 1 year ago
NO ONE really knows when it will erupt so don't count on science all the time.
chowder198 1 year ago
@chowder198
but listen to science... because Yellowstone is i think a good 20-30 years past its eruption date so you still want to be prepared
whitesonic1 1 year ago
It's not dormant
11tobiobito 1 year ago
i watched this in science we didnt get to the part that says that its very unlikely to happen
seanisawesomeomg 1 year ago
"Very Unlikely" is an absolutely true statement, but it must be tempered by this fact: We do NOT know when Yellowstone Caldera will erupt again. Let's assume it erupted exactly 640,000 years ago. Do you think those living 640,001 years ago knew the dangers they faced? Fortunately, we'll probably have ample warning, but I think we need to recognize the need to be vigilant. It's calm now--and hopefully will remain so for another 20,000 years, but still, nature doesn't care for "conditions"!
RunWalkRace 1 year ago
@RunWalkRace
exactly... lets just hope the guys at Yellowstone can do there "leaking' plan soon
whitesonic1 1 year ago
i just watched it 2day :3
richrox21 1 year ago
Perhaps you should check this out.
Yellowstone has had over 1200 earthquakes
in the past few days.
/watch?v=kB-YZHMzvY4
drevenkaine 2 years ago
its called swarms and they happen to be normal, in the 70's they had swarms with earthquakes ranging at 4.0 i believe
fullMetaLxMantis 1 year ago
this is why me and mother nature are trying to stop its eruption
but we are still trying to stop it
ask me about more
awsomeyoshi2 2 years ago
Hope the wind is blowing west to the pacific...
At least the Appalachian mountain would protect much of the East Coast.
BroyhillVideo 2 years ago
Doubtful considering there are hardly any mountains in the Appalachians.
ecuador108 1 year ago
ive been reading this book since elementary school and ive learded how to protect urself from it. I lost the book tho :( it was probably the coolest book ive ever read, heres the name "most dangerous things in the worlds"
MsToontowngirl 2 years ago
Toba was about 75,000 years ago. And helped trigger an iceage that was already in the works.
kinda of reminds me of now, we are coming into another mini ice age at least, or a full on ice age maybe, not for a while. But if yellowstone or another large volcanic eruption happens, it could help speed up any ice age looming
bottle2lip 2 years ago
omg for some reason i just want to witness this and im not even into science just learned about this stuff today in highschool, i know i wouldent survive but to see that thing blow would be sick.
jcKillerSrMil 2 years ago
and dont forget the huge uranium reserves that the super volcano sit atop. that saying in addition to the eruption devastation, the wind would vastly spread the toxic chemical very far. stduies say that thyroid cancer would be the first to strike
IBWcollision 2 years ago
Hmm... How to prepare? 1. Stock about 3 years of canned food because that's how log they said the growing season would be knocked out (although I'd pack 2 extra years just in case.) 2. Get plenty of face masks (I already have plenty of those for a possible swine flew outbreak) 3. Buy 2 story ladder and shovels to make sure the roof doesn't collapse from the weight of ash buildup. 4. Buy gun. (lets be realistic folks, I hate guns, but given the situation it's probably a wise choice to have one.)
hop208 2 years ago 2
Considering how we humans will do anything to survive, number 3 is a wise decision. Who knows how life will be in the aftermath of the Yellowstone eruption.
truthclaw5 2 years ago
3 or 4? I doubt people will be after my shovels lol! They'd probably be after my food stock though.
hop208 2 years ago
I wonder how bad the ash clouds would effect the North Eastern part of the US. Mainly Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Baltimore, and Washington D.C.? I know that temps would plummet, but how much ash would we be buried in?
hop208 2 years ago
lol at the "see you later USA" comments. It's worse for the world for it to blow up on the US than some islands far off in the Pacific. Hate it or not it's not possible to remove the dependency other nations have on how well the US economy is doing. I figure people don't know what they have to depend on until they totally lose it.
ccricers 2 years ago
will california survive? mexico?
creps408 2 years ago
north america would be gone, then the rest of the world
d23 2 years ago
when will it erupt?
creps408 2 years ago
If the cloud diagram shown here is accurate then California wouldn't be covered in ash, but you'd feel the effect on the climate. It would get significantly cooler to the point of having sub freezing temps in places like LA and San Diego. Not to mention that California would have to deal with hundreds of thousands of survivors who would be refugees in your state,assuming your from California. So you would be burned alive, but you would have to deal with the food shortages and chaos that ensued.
hop208 2 years ago
"so you would be burned alive" - I meant wouldn't
hop208 2 years ago
and thats why britain wins.
Vampyro201 2 years ago
This man made explosions 0:51 to 0:59
are so popular they are used in so many movies.
And it is so obvious, that it is not at all an eruption.
schattensand 2 years ago
Duh stupid ass, this is an example of what can happen, not the real shit
DreamMare1 2 years ago
You are a princox
schattensand 2 years ago
Thank you, you piece of shit, if this shit was real, you would be dead right now.
DreamMare1 2 years ago
Go! - Be quiet, or - More light, more light, for shame! - I'll make you quiet.
schattensand 2 years ago
Pyroclastic flows are like land waves, instead that they are much more slower and by will stop much more earlier then a tidal wave...ALSO YELLOWSTONE IS ALSO OVERDUE.
In 1815 Mt. Tambora erupted w/ a rating of seven on the Volcanic Explosivity Index...out of 8. In 1816 in the north hemisphere was known as the year w/out a Summer That means it only ejects about 100 km. A regular explosion of a supervolcano is normally 10 times more powerful then that
Jediman2000 2 years ago
Actually, the US government has in place a emergency plan in which should a super eruption in Yellow Stone occur, all survivors are to converge on Rhode Island and eat the population.
krelnarb 2 years ago 20
@krelnarb ha ha ha!
RoxRock4ever 1 year ago
well, at least rhode island is safe from that disaster
sublyme9 2 years ago
Well either way, if a super volcano goes off in the US that pretty much just took out most of the farm land. It would also cause an economic collapse and probably turn North America into a third world nation. Now as far as ending civilization and our genus, we will survive. Human kind and it's ancestors already survived a few of these. =)
Yurikan 2 years ago
holy fuck
lungworms 2 years ago
Bad news; there are TWO supervolcanoes in the USA alone, Yellowstone Caldera in Wyoming and Long Valley Caldera in California. And at Long Valley, it's actually overdue.
IPVentertainment 2 years ago