The Apocalyptic Timebomb Under Yellowstone: Experts Warn of Potential Supervolcano Eruption ‘Nuclear Winter, Killing Thousands’

A supervolcano in the heart of America’s northwest has the potential to blanket the US in a ‘nuclear winter’.

If it were to erupt, the Yellowstone supervolcano would be one thousand times as powerful as the 1980 Mount St. Helen’s eruption, experts claim.

While it has lain dormant for more than 70,000 years, scientists say that we can’t rule out the possibility eruption this may some day take place – although they say the chances are extremely slim.

The Grand Prismatic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park is among the park’s many hydrothermal features created by the Yellowstone supervolcano. Experts say there is a one in 700,000 annual chance of a volcanic eruption at the site.

The volcano at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and Montana sits atop a huge reserve of molten rock and last erupted 640,000 years ago.

It is one of the largest active continental silicic volcanic fields in the world. Silicic is used to describe magma or igneous rock rich in silica.

Experts say there is a one in 700,000 annual chance of a volcanic eruption at the site.

This USGS graphic shows how a ‘super eruption’ of the molten lava under Yellowstone National Park would spread ash across the United States.

An in-depth report by HowStuffWorks has revealed the process that would take place if the volcano were to blow.

It says that a mixture of magma, rocks, vapour, carbon dioxide and other gases would eventually push out from the ground, creating a dome shape with cracks.

The dissolved gases would them explode, releasing the magma across the park.

The eruption, the say, could kill as many as 90,000 people almost instantly and release a 10 ft (3-meter) layer of molten ash 1,000 miles (1,609km) from the park.

‘The ash would block off all points of entry from the ground, and the spread of ash and gases into the atmosphere would stop most air travel, just as it did when a much smaller volcano erupted in Iceland in 2010,’ the magazine writes.

‘Sulphuric gases released from the volcano would spring into the atmosphere and mix with the planet’s water vapour.

‘The haze of gas that could drape the country wouldn’t just dim the sunlight — it also would cool temperatures.’

Experts say there is a one in 700,000 annual chance of a volcanic eruption at the site. Pictured is an artist’s impression.

The eruption, the say, could kill as many as 90,000 people almost instantly and release a 10 ft (3-meter) layer of molten ash 1,000 miles (1,609km) from the park.

‘The ash would block off all points of entry from the ground, and the spread of ash and gases into the atmosphere would stop most air travel, just as it did when a much smaller volcano erupted in Iceland in 2010,’ the magazine writes.

‘Sulphuric gases released from the volcano would spring into the atmosphere and mix with the planet’s water vapour.

‘The haze of gas that could drape the country wouldn’t just dim the sunlight — it also would cool temperatures.’

It adds that falling temperatures would damage our food supply, destroying crops and causing a worldwide food shortage.

But not every believes a Yellowstone eruption would be as catastrophic as this.

Last year, a study by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) concluded that a volcanic eruption at Yellowstone would cover cities across the country with ash and shut down air travel and communications.

But it added that it would not herald the end of the United States as we know it, as the latest report has claimed.

The scientists used the program called Ash 3D to model the effects of a Yellowstone ‘super eruption’ and found that cities up to 300 miles from the park would be covered by up to three feet of ash.

Cities further afield in the Midwest would be covered by a few inches and coastal cities such as New York and California would get only a fraction of an inch.

Yellowstone National Park spans the midwestern US states of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana (pictured).

An eruption at Yellowstone would create an ‘umbrella cloud’ of ash which would expand evenly in all directions driven by the force of the seismic event.

‘In essence, the eruption makes its own winds that can overcome the prevailing westerlies, which normally dominate weather patterns in the US,’ said Larry Mastin, the lead author of the new paper.

Even these smaller levels of ash would be a disaster for the US.

The USGS study says that electronic communication and air travel throughout the country would be shut down by an eruption.

A huge cloud of ash thousands of miles across would also likely cause a year-long winter, say the study authors.

The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Pacific produced an ash cloud tens of miles across caused ‘a year without a summer’ across the globe with snowfall in the North Eastern United States in June.

Areas covered in feet of ash would see buildings at risk of collapse and sewer and water lines blocked, and winds would form large dunes of ash that would cover roads and buildings.

Farming in the Midwest would be devastated by the cloud of ash, and highways across the country would become slippery and treacherous.

If it were to erupt, the Yellowstone supervolcano would be one thousand times as powerful as the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption, experts claim. The volcano at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming and Montana sits atop a huge reserve of molten rock and last erupted 640,000 years ago.

The Yellowstone volcano has had three super eruptions – which produce more than 240 cubic miles of ash’ in the past.

One was 2.1 million years ago, another 1.3 million years ago and a third 640,000 years ago.

The earth is not millions of years old! This tells us as Bible believers, that these eruptions happened way before the timetables the scientists here are quoting. 

NOTE:  Young Earth: As you add up all of the dates, and accepting that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to Earth almost 2,000 years ago, we come to the conclusion that the creation of the Earth and animals (including the dinosaurs) occurred only thousands of years ago (perhaps only 6000!), not millions of years. Thus, if the Bible is right (and it is!), dinosaurs must have lived within the past thousands of years.

”..keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so-called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith…”-1 Timothy 6:20-21 (KJV).

Ash from these eruptions has been found across the US on the east and west coasts.

The last volcanic activity at Yellowstone was 70,000 years ago which produced a lava flow in the south of the park.

In April, scientists at the University of Utah discovered an enormous secondary chamber deeper beneath Yellowstone National Park that’s so large it is partly molten rock could fill the Grand Canyon 11 times over. See Below for more information.

Source:Daily Mail

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PROPHECY:

We are definitely told in prophecy that the earth will burn and melt away, and we also know that it will be done by the spoken WORD OF GOD…it would not be far-fetched that GOD will in fact use the eruption of all volcanoes to create this cataclysmic end to earth.  As we have seen in previous eruptions, one eruption of any volcano has the potential to blanket the area with billowing clouds, changing the appearance of the sky to darkness, and the sun not to shine, and the moon to appear blood-red.

 

And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke – Acts 2:19 (KJV).

And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven- Luke 21:11 (KJV).

And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place. – Micah 1:4 (KJV).  

Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil – Isaiah 64:1-2 (KJV). 

NOTE:  Young Earth: As you add up all of the dates, and accepting that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to Earth almost 2,000 years ago, we come to the conclusion that the creation of the Earth and animals (including the dinosaurs) occurred only thousands of years ago (perhaps only 6000!), not millions of years. Thus, if the Bible is right (and it is!), dinosaurs must have lived within the past thousands of years.

”..keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith…”-1 Timothy 6:20-21 (KJV).