What Happens If A Super Volcano Erupts? | The Yellowstone Super Volcano

In the United States, in the state of Wyoming is a national park called Yellowstone. Infamous for it's beautiful nature it's also home to one of the world's largest volcanoes. The Yellowstone volcano is a super volcano and if it decided to erupt, the results would be devastating. But just how devastating would they be?

Super volcanoes are real events. A million times more powerful than Hiroshima with just over 20 having been recorded in the history of the earth and over half of these happened in the USA. For the last 30 years scientists have been investigating where the next super volcano could erupt. With all this research, it has revealed that an active super volcano exists under Yellowstone National Park. If the Yellowstone Caldera erupted today, could we survive? How will impact USA?

[katrinamoriarty]

Documentaries like this just drives home the fact that humans are just one natural disaster away from extinction.

[tomwesterbergh]

I don't care if this documentary is old because I always like to learn new things and as long as it's educational I'm fine with it being old.

[derrickconnolly]

Im a lone wolf biker have been all my life. Never in a group or club. I do charity rides. But at 65 and retired i just love to ride. I been through Yellowstone twice. Such a mysterious place. You can almost feel the power beneath your feet. And yet a very breathtaking scenery. And i really have to give a huge thank you to all the staff that protect and serve your needs. A must see for all. I will return again some day.

[midwestmystic]

I live near it. Although, my boss will probably still call asking if I'm coming into work when it blows.

[jmw]

This was fascinating and terrifying. I had totally forgotten that I should be afraid of this. Thanks, I guess.

[kabluey_louie]

I've always loved these old History Channel mini docs

[travislemley]

I’ve learned way more on my own watching videos and doing research like this, than I ever did in school!!! That’s wild

[anitadakin]

The winter after Mt. StHelen's erupted about 75 miles away in Ellensburg, Washington it was considerably warmer. The Mount actually blew twice. In Kittitas County there was about 2 to 3 inches of ash everywhere.

[rickstein]

Around the 27:30 mark in this video, you see a plane on its tail. That plane was on the Cubi Point Airfield at the Subic Bay Naval Station, Republic of the Philippines. My Marines and I were a mile due south of this in a Quonset hut in the Upper MEF camp.We had evacuated 80k from Clark Airbase and Subic and set up a 10km exclusion zone around Mt. Pinatubo. This picture was taken as we were getting our asses handed to us by not only an eruption 10x the size of Mt. St Helen that was 25miles to our Northeast but we also got hit with a typhoon coming in from our southeast

7 weeks of 18 hr patrols, no clean drinking water or breathing protection later, we were finally relieved and floated back to Oki.

Make a documentary of that.

Doc, HMG platoon, 1/24

[formerfarmer]

I remember the effects of the Mt Penatubo eruption in 1991 that I observed in East Central Illinois. For the rest of the summer there was a grey halo around the sun. What I noticed happened one “sunny” day as I worked on my cultivator on my driveway. I had laid a wrench in the gravel as I worked. Normally when you tried to pick up the wrench lying in the sun with a bare hand it would be uncomfortably hot but when I picked it up it was barely warm.

[theresamorley]

This video feels so nostalgic and I wanna go back to being a kid home sick from school watching Discovery Channel

[scinanisern]

When ash spews from a volcano, it was once rock which has been baked at thousands of degrees. All water has been driven from the molecular nature of the rock, and like concrete, when it settles and gets wet it will once again reform the molecular structures of rock and solidify. In other words, the ash which coats the lungs turns to concrete. Painful is putting it mildly.

[MaxHeimst]

By the way, the supervolcanic eruption 74.000 years ago was not on the "Island of Toba", it happened on the island of Sumatra and what remains of it is Lake Toba.

[davidalanblake]

He's got the whole world in his hand!

[huha]

I remember that earthquake very well as it was when my Boy Scout group was camping at Hebgen Lake near ground zero. Myself and a friend decided at the last minute not to go on the outing. My friends were on the side of the lake where the water rose and invaded the campsite. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but had an interesting time there. Years later I was on a Uni trip to Quake Lake, to view differentt areas as to the destruction caused by the quake. Unbelievable! I grew up in Bozeman, not far from the Park. We have a saying about the volcano when it eventually blows, there goes the neighborhood.

[deemariedubois]

Every time the Buffalo was shown struggling helplessly to breathe it tore my heart out. That was a horrible way for that majestic creature to die.

[FateisDoc]

Im posting this 7/23/2024
Biscuit bason erupted for the first time ever. There was no seismic activity.

[WorthyMissJ]

The awesome amount of sheer destructive power that a small volcano has is humbling. The thought of one the size of Yellowstone erupting truly makes me feel panicky, tiny, and helpless on the planet.

[angelaself]

Last eruption was amazing. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Peace joy and happiness to you.🕊🥳😻

[Gubbins_McBumbersnoot]

I love how at 13:29, it shows Yellowstone erupting, and then a couple park rangers putting up a road closed sign. Like there would be a road left to drive down.