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Have you ever thought of the end of the world? Or do you just care to much about yourself and other people. Since we are drawing near to all this legends and rumors that the end of the world is here like 2012 and Armageddon. People are smart enough to know that it cannot possibly happen, but can it? Not really 2012 when the Earth would collapse but from the skies above. Like the day we get hit by an asteroid or a nuclear war? I am going to follow you in the countdown to the seven sources that can destroy our world from the most unlikely, to the most immanent. And make it into the death planet that never was.5. Super Volcano
For a long time, we humans thought we were the ultimate civilization, but forget the robots and all the advanced technology. Think about the beginning. We exist on this planet entirely because of mother nature. Now if mother nature decides we have enough, well we are gone, for good this time. From all of the threats to humanity including man made or from space, this is the only one that comes from inside of the earth, where you will witness the most devastating explosion on earth that will completely wipe us out for good. There is no point in running away, just pray.
The city of Pompeii in Italy was a calm, peaceful place. The people there were happy, the crops were happy and they were thankful for their city. But in 79 AD that all ended. When Mount Vesuvius exploded with so much power and force it covered the City with up to 4-6 meters of ash. Now all the people, all 100% of them had died instantly from the scorching heat that was exposed from the volcano or died by suffocation by the poisonous ash that fell like snow, but that wasn't the end of the city. The amount of ash and smoke that came out of the Mount Vesuvius was so much that it actually blocked the sun for for a long period of time but not known how long. So Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii isn't just for show, it is reminding us that the earth is a violent place and that anything like this can happen again. This all warned us, that there is a threat on our planet that cannot be stopped, that something worse than Mount Pompeii is here, that a Supervolcano is about to be born. Another eruption that left people scared was Mount St. Helen's in 1980 which was probably America's worst volcano ever. It was awesome to see it explode and from a persons point of view, it was very, very big. The volcano killed about 60 people and destroyed at least a couple hundred thousand acres of forest life. Now imagine that in your head. Okay? Now imagine that explosion about 1000 times greater, that's a supervolcano.
Supervolcanoes were first introduced in the 20th century, but the term supervolcano isn't quite right, at least in scientific terms but supercladeras are. Supercalderas are really the great big canyon a supervolcano forms when it is about to erupt. The smallest caldera could be a couple of miles long in diameter. It all depends on the power of the volcano. When we first discovered Toba, a supervolcano located in Lake Toba, near Indonesia. It erupted with great power about 73,000 years ago, we learned what a supervolcano could do. With more further study, just like Pompeii, Toba made a clould of ash and debris that covered the sky and blocked the sun that made a volcanic ice age lasting about 6-10 years. This literally wiped out everything and it was said that the human population dropped by 90% because the winter killed all the plants and trees. Just imagine 6-10 years with winter only and no sun at all. That would be terrifying. So Toba, was the first supervolcano to ever erupt on our world and it holds the record for the biggest explosion/eruption on the face of the planet, 10,000 times more deadly and bigger as an atomic bomb. So what's next? Is Toba going to explode again you say? Well, the answer is no but I think you will find something a little more frightening.
Ahh, Yellowstone National Park. What a beautiful place, all the sites, animals and wildlife to see, but there is something I am sure everyone is familiar about. It's that huge magma pit in the middle of the Park, Yes, that rainbow-colored looking thingy. It's called the Yellowstone hotspot and that my friends is one out of a possible 40 supervolcanoes scientists say are scattered on this planet. Yes, I know, there is a supervolcano very close to home. Yellowstone Caldera is one of the actual supervolcanoes we can see, unlike most volcanoes, supervolcanoes are mostly underground and blend in with the canyons, valleys and ground. That may be, there might be a supervolcano in the grand canyon? Who knows? Anyway, Yellowstone has been there for a very, very long time and is one of the most famous tourist destinations in America. Yellowstone is a hotspot located in Salt Lake City, Utah and it is a very good example of the structure of a supervolcano. Yellowstone is about 2.1 million years old and was formed when the hot magma was crushed up to the top of the surface, It exploded about a million years ago but after that first explosion, a plate underneath called the North American plate, slipped in and held it there in place gradually moving each year about a couple of inches.
We see that Yellowstone, like all the other supervolcanoes, have erupted many times before. Yellowstone has erupted at least a dozen times in the last 2 million years. At least a couple of them were actually recorded as supereruptions which are the biggest eruptions the world has seen, since then there wasn't that much eruptions at all, which leads to the point....Is it going to erupt again? The cycle of eruptions of Yellowstone happens every say 50,000 years and we aren't that close to it but who knows if it erupts in a 100 years or so. Scientists honestly don't know when or where a supervolcano is going to erupt. That is the question every person on the world wants to know. When and where? The question can only be answered by our greatest scientist but we might never know when the time will come. And if it does come, I will give you a brief explanation of what it will look like.
It will all happen in a matter of seconds, let's take Yellowstone, it will start boiling up and scientist will soon see the temperature of the hotspot go up increasingly. The ground below it will start to take furiously and there would be some minor side affects like earthquakes. Then, it will all happen. The whole Park will start bursting with lava from beneath the earth, not only from the Yellowstone hotspot, but also everywhere else around the park. The lava starts combining together to make this huge pool of lava at least couple of miles long, then all of a sudden, the ash begins to start falling. The eruption can last a couple of minutes to a couple of hours depending on how much magma was pressurized before coming to the surface. The ash will surely suffocate everyone outside at the time, and the temperature of the earth would gradually get hotter and hotter as the supervolcano progresses on. All living things in contact with the ash or temperature would die from suffocation or be burned up. The ash would pile so thick that it would be at least 10 feet piled up like a bad snow day. There is no point in hiding in your houses because the weight of the ash on the roofs will collapse the buildings, then comes food support. The ash will reach all the freshwater lakes and mix in becoming a toxic chemical mix. So there goes the water, the only thing that could save you is probably the packaged food. Anyway, anyone inside there house would be forced inside until all the ash stops falling, that could take days or weeks. The worst part about the volcano would be the human causalities, there would be much suffering in the world and many people will go missing and dead. The governments of every nation would fall and the world would try and work together if they choose to help the people of the world, to save as many lives as possible before the last human on the earth dies, and that is the end of the human civilization forever....
Now we have witnessed the power of a supervolcano first hand. The power, the sites, the outcomes come with incredible power but do we really know the secret of the supervolcano. Like I said before, there are at least 40 of them scattered around the world and if one goes of, we are all toast, literally toast, burnt in fact. Anyway, you think something we can't see, and don't know when will come will be the most deadliest threat in the world but you are wrong, there are 4 more threats to mankind and they are going to be scarier than ever.
Up next on the Countdown, we go back in outer space where a force so powerful can smash into the earth pieces. A threat so powerful that even the top scientists don't know what to do and how to stop it, if it can be stopped. If it does come, it will cause the most catastophic destruction the world will see to date, supervolcano? No, it is much, much worse....
Supervolcanoes were first introduced in the 20th century, but the term supervolcano isn't quite right, at least in scientific terms but supercladeras are. Supercalderas are really the great big canyon a supervolcano forms when it is about to erupt. The smallest caldera could be a couple of miles long in diameter. It all depends on the power of the volcano. When we first discovered Toba, a supervolcano located in Lake Toba, near Indonesia. It erupted with great power about 73,000 years ago, we learned what a supervolcano could do. With more further study, just like Pompeii, Toba made a clould of ash and debris that covered the sky and blocked the sun that made a volcanic ice age lasting about 6-10 years. This literally wiped out everything and it was said that the human population dropped by 90% because the winter killed all the plants and trees. Just imagine 6-10 years with winter only and no sun at all. That would be terrifying. So Toba, was the first supervolcano to ever erupt on our world and it holds the record for the biggest explosion/eruption on the face of the planet, 10,000 times more deadly and bigger as an atomic bomb. So what's next? Is Toba going to explode again you say? Well, the answer is no but I think you will find something a little more frightening.
Ahh, Yellowstone National Park. What a beautiful place, all the sites, animals and wildlife to see, but there is something I am sure everyone is familiar about. It's that huge magma pit in the middle of the Park, Yes, that rainbow-colored looking thingy. It's called the Yellowstone hotspot and that my friends is one out of a possible 40 supervolcanoes scientists say are scattered on this planet. Yes, I know, there is a supervolcano very close to home. Yellowstone Caldera is one of the actual supervolcanoes we can see, unlike most volcanoes, supervolcanoes are mostly underground and blend in with the canyons, valleys and ground. That may be, there might be a supervolcano in the grand canyon? Who knows? Anyway, Yellowstone has been there for a very, very long time and is one of the most famous tourist destinations in America. Yellowstone is a hotspot located in Salt Lake City, Utah and it is a very good example of the structure of a supervolcano. Yellowstone is about 2.1 million years old and was formed when the hot magma was crushed up to the top of the surface, It exploded about a million years ago but after that first explosion, a plate underneath called the North American plate, slipped in and held it there in place gradually moving each year about a couple of inches.
We see that Yellowstone, like all the other supervolcanoes, have erupted many times before. Yellowstone has erupted at least a dozen times in the last 2 million years. At least a couple of them were actually recorded as supereruptions which are the biggest eruptions the world has seen, since then there wasn't that much eruptions at all, which leads to the point....Is it going to erupt again? The cycle of eruptions of Yellowstone happens every say 50,000 years and we aren't that close to it but who knows if it erupts in a 100 years or so. Scientists honestly don't know when or where a supervolcano is going to erupt. That is the question every person on the world wants to know. When and where? The question can only be answered by our greatest scientist but we might never know when the time will come. And if it does come, I will give you a brief explanation of what it will look like.
It will all happen in a matter of seconds, let's take Yellowstone, it will start boiling up and scientist will soon see the temperature of the hotspot go up increasingly. The ground below it will start to take furiously and there would be some minor side affects like earthquakes. Then, it will all happen. The whole Park will start bursting with lava from beneath the earth, not only from the Yellowstone hotspot, but also everywhere else around the park. The lava starts combining together to make this huge pool of lava at least couple of miles long, then all of a sudden, the ash begins to start falling. The eruption can last a couple of minutes to a couple of hours depending on how much magma was pressurized before coming to the surface. The ash will surely suffocate everyone outside at the time, and the temperature of the earth would gradually get hotter and hotter as the supervolcano progresses on. All living things in contact with the ash or temperature would die from suffocation or be burned up. The ash would pile so thick that it would be at least 10 feet piled up like a bad snow day. There is no point in hiding in your houses because the weight of the ash on the roofs will collapse the buildings, then comes food support. The ash will reach all the freshwater lakes and mix in becoming a toxic chemical mix. So there goes the water, the only thing that could save you is probably the packaged food. Anyway, anyone inside there house would be forced inside until all the ash stops falling, that could take days or weeks. The worst part about the volcano would be the human causalities, there would be much suffering in the world and many people will go missing and dead. The governments of every nation would fall and the world would try and work together if they choose to help the people of the world, to save as many lives as possible before the last human on the earth dies, and that is the end of the human civilization forever....
Now we have witnessed the power of a supervolcano first hand. The power, the sites, the outcomes come with incredible power but do we really know the secret of the supervolcano. Like I said before, there are at least 40 of them scattered around the world and if one goes of, we are all toast, literally toast, burnt in fact. Anyway, you think something we can't see, and don't know when will come will be the most deadliest threat in the world but you are wrong, there are 4 more threats to mankind and they are going to be scarier than ever.
Up next on the Countdown, we go back in outer space where a force so powerful can smash into the earth pieces. A threat so powerful that even the top scientists don't know what to do and how to stop it, if it can be stopped. If it does come, it will cause the most catastophic destruction the world will see to date, supervolcano? No, it is much, much worse....
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