Yellowstone supervolcano: the main threat to the US

in #usa8 years ago (edited)


Yellowstone - supervolcano in the United States. For several years, the world excite the news that he was going to wake up, disaster strikes, America will end, and the world plunged into a nuclear winter. While supervolcano wakes.

What awaits us?

This will be an explosion comparable to the explosion of atomic bombs in 1000. The ground part of the super collapse into a funnel with a diameter of about fifty kilometers. happen ecological disaster on Earth. For the US Yellowstone eruption would mean the end of existence. The saddest thing is that talking about such implications not only alarmist, but also specialists. Jacob Lёvenshtern of Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (USA) said that during all previous supervolcano eruption (there were three) out fell more than 1 thousand. Cubic kilometers of magma. This is enough to cover most of North America, a layer of ash up to 30 cm (in the midst of disaster). Lёvenshtern also noted that the temperature throughout the world will fall to 21 degrees, visibility for several years will be no more than half a meter. An era similar to a nuclear winter. Hurricane "Katrina" revealed that the US civil defense system is not ready for such large-scale disasters - and GO no country will not be able to prepare for them. Do not get tired to predict supervolcano eruption and Russian scientists. Head of the Department of Dynamic Geology, Geological Faculty of Moscow State University Nikolai Koronovskii in an interview with "News" told what will happen after the eruption, "western winds prevail, so everything goes to the east of the USA. Will cover them. Reduced solar radiation, so the temperature must fall. The well-known case of the eruption of Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait lowered by about 2 degrees temperature in 1873 in the equatorial part of a year and a half, until the ashes are not scattered. according to the data and evidence around the wine Putin "