The Yellowstone National Park exists in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, USA. It is the oldest national park in the world covers an area of 3,845 square miles (8,879 square kilo meters). It has so many interesting volcanic features including hot springs and geysers such as the renowned Old Faithful and Steamboat Geyser, etc.
Yellowstone Volcano is also one of the most famous places there. Moreover, it is also one of the super volcanoes around the world. Shocking fact is that Yellowstone Super Volcano is neither dormant nor dead but still alive!
What is super volcano?
Super volcano is the volcano which is much massively destructive more than any other volcanoes we experienced. When it erupts, it throws out the gigantic amount of ash expected at least 1,000 cubic kilometer. Eruption is happened when the magma or lava flow from the crust due to the enormous pressure accumulated under the Earth for so long.
Super volcano often forms the calderas from the collapse of the circular fault as a result from eruption.
History of the Events
I will present the latest on top.
- Lake Taupo, North Island, New Zealand, Oruanui eruption - 26,500 years ago ~ 1,170 cubic km
- Lake Toba, Sumatra, Indonesia - 75,000 years ago ~2,800 cubic km
- Whakamaru, North Island, New Zealand - Whakamaru Ignimbrite/Mount Curl Tephra ~254,000 years ago ~1,200 - 2,000 cubic km
- Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming, United States - 640,000 years ago ~1,000 cubic km
- and still have many more but i will not describe them.
The impact of the eruption of Super volcano is immense: the thousands of thousands of ash will cause so much misery to living beings and also to the whole environment. We cannot do any prevention for that environmental disaster but closely monitor to minimize the imminent agony. I hope that Ratana Mantra for Buddhists will be the best for our goodness.
Author: Libratun
Ref: wikipedia.org, armageddononline.tripod.com, flash-screen.com
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