Blogpost 6: The Eruption that will End it All

Men have always been terrified of volcano eruptions. From the very first recorded volcano eruption that desecrated a city, up to the latest activities these volcanoes emit, people have been afraid to what catastrophe these volcanoes bring about. One of the biggest recorded eruptions was caused by Mount St. Helens in 1980 in which its eruption was equivalent to 1,600 times the atomic bomb that was dropped in Hiroshima. 

I remember I was alarmed and concerned for my relatives when I heard a news that the Taal Volcano warning level was raised. I heard in the news that it had the potential to erupt and that people were being evacuated in the said area. But I have learned that there is this eruption that could wipe out all humanity as we know it. Even if we some up all the past recorded events that these volcanoes all over the world have done, it wouldn't compare to what a super volcano can do.

According to an article that I have read in dailygalaxy.com about "Super Volcanic Eruptions with the Potential to End Civilizations - Disturbing New Discovery" The Yellowstone National Park is one of the well featured tourist spots in America. However, this natural wonder has a terrifying past. It was said that it formed 640,000 years ago by a so-called super eruption. It was a product of a major eruption which was a thousand times more powerful than the Mount St. Helens explosion. In this article it was also stated that:

"Some 600,000 years ago there was a colossal cauldron of magma, a supervolcano, that exploded with such violence that it left an ash layer almost ten feet deep a thousand miles away in eastern Nebraska killing all plant life and covering almost all of the United States west of the Mississippi. Modern geological surveys have shown that this supervolcano erupts catastrophically every 600,000 years, and the land that supervolcano is trapped in was called by Blackfoot Indians 'the land of evil spirits' -what we call today, Yellowstone National Park."

Being able to know this I didn't expect it was ever possible that an eruption from a super volcano can affect such a really large area that an explosion almost amounts to 1,600,000 atomic bombs. And that from the article that the Yellowstone erupts every 600,000 years and the last eruption was over 640,000 years ago which means that it is already 40,000 years overdue. Furthermore scientist revealed that the ground underneath Yellowstone National Park is rising at a record rate of 3 inches per year. 

From another article in infowars.com entitled "Yellowstone Supervolcano Alert: The Most Dangerous Volcano In America Is Roaring To Life" I have learned that what is going on at the Yellowstone is so important that everyone should know about it because a full-scale eruption of Yellowstone would cover virtually the entire midwest United States with volcanic ash.  Food production in America and half of the world would be almost totally wiped out. And the most alarming part that I have read in this article is that: 

"There will be a  “volcanic winter” that would happen after a massive Yellowstone eruption that would cause radically cool the whole planet.  Some scientists believe that global temperatures would decline by up to 20 degrees." 

And it was even believed that the so-called "volcanic winter" can cover the whole planet and wouldn't let any light from the sun enter the earth for up to 300 years. And that America and the whole world would never be the same again after a massive Yellowstone eruption.  Some scientists even believed that a full eruption by Yellowstone would render two-thirds of the United States completely uninhabitable.

The eruption of super volcano will bring about another ice age that will end the world's entire civilization. And no life would exist for another hundreds or maybe even thousands of years. Now should be the time that we prepare for the worse.