Yellowstone Super Volcano - If it happens to erupt... It's been nice knowing all of you.

Many people know there is a super volcano under Yellowstone national park. This is why there are many hot springs, geysers, etc. Fewer people may be aware how bad that could be if what is known as a super eruption occurs.

There are quite a few articles and journalists talking about this (if you can sneak past the swarms of the normal non-stop propaganda war). I happen to live in a northern suburb of Denver. So if a super eruption does ever occur, it has been nice knowing all of you. My family and I along with anyone within 600 miles of Yellowstone will be pretty much gone. The rest of the United States will be in very dire straits as well, and no one will be really worried about Climate Change any longer. In fact, the world will likely be experiencing what is known as Nuclear Winter.

So why is there so much discussion about this right now?

Well that could be because there have been more than 800 earthquakes recorded at the Yellowstone Caldera over the past two weeks. The U.S. Geological Survey still places the risk level in the "green" according to Newsweek.

I probably don't live close enough to pull a Pompeii like action and get myself flash petrified. It'd be an unpleasant day, maybe more if I am unlucky and then there would be silence.

Now if this does happen, odds are most people won't be too much talking on steemit. I imagine just how much of the infrastructure this would devastate. Not to mention there would not be much in the way of flying around in airplanes.

The largest earthquake so far was a magnitude of 4.4 and occurred on June 16th, which was three days after the rumblings started. That is the biggest since March 14th, 2014 when there was a 4.8 that hit near Norris Geyser Basin.

The celebrity theoretical physicist Michio Kaku has been speaking up about this as he believes there is a 10% chance that a super eruption could occur this century. The last one occurred 640,000 years ago. This supposedly makes it overdue.

Now for me living where I live this is about the only truly non-man made catastrophic event that might impact me. Tornadoes are not really a problem, certainly not hurricanes, floods, etc.

There are reports that this earthquake swarm has slowed down, so perhaps we'll go on to live another day.

I mentioned as a joke the other day that they should legalize fracking of the region. Yet that would likely be fatal to anyone that happened to be doing the fracking. I was simply thinking of the idea of releasing pressure. I know this is not likely very realistic so it was more dark humor in the face of what some day will be doom. Hopefully long in the future.

Michael Snyder of The American Dream blog wrote a good article that covers some information on this and how devastating it would be if it occurs.

This section of that particular blog drives the point home.

If you don't know much about super volcanoes I thought it might be worth sharing a few documentaries on the topic.

Naked Science - Super Volcanoes

SUPERVOLCANO! 7 Supervolcanoes That Threaten The Future of Humanity (Incl. World’s BIGGEST volcano!)

Mega Volcano - Documentary on The Deadliest Super Volcanoes in the World

A Supervolcano Waking Up In The USA

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