…or it is, and they’re not telling us simply because, crud, the only thing that you could do about it would be to move to another continent:
“Yellowstone is one of the biggest supervolcanos in the world,” [Ilya Bindeman, associate professor of geological sciences at the University of Oregon] says. “Sometimes it erupts quietly with lava flow, but once or twice every million years, it erupts very violently, forming large calderas,” which are very large craters measuring tens of kilometers in diameter.
If it happens again, and he says most scientists think that it will, he predicts such an eruption will obliterate the surroundings within a radius of hundreds of kilometers, and cover the rest of the United States and Canada with multiple inches of ash. This, effectively, would shut down agriculture and cause global climate cooling for as long as a decade, or more, he says. A volcanic event of such magnitude “hasn’t happened in modern civilization,” he says.
However, the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded scientist doesn’t think it’s going to happen anytime soon–at least not for another 1 million to 2 million years.
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