Yellowstone national park when is it going to blow

The National Park Service staffers, however, has been monitoring the Yellowstone volcanic activity very closely for the last 30 years. Their prediction? Get inspired with tips about where to go and what to see on your national park vacation, delivered right to your inbox. Unsubscribe anytime by clicking the link at the bottom of your email. Get Our Newsletter Get inspired with tips about where to go and what to see on your national park vacation, delivered right to your inbox.

There are around 20 known supervolcanoes on Earth, with major eruptions occurring on average once every , years. One of the greatest threats an eruption may pose is thought to be starvation, with a prolonged volcanic winter potentially prohibiting civilisation from having enough food for the current population.

In , the United Nations estimated that food reserves worldwide would last 74 days. When Nasa scientists came to consider the problem, they found that the most logical solution could simply be to cool a supervolcano down.

A volcano the size of Yellowstone is essentially a gigantic heat generator, equivalent to six industrial power plants. The remainder builds up inside the magma, enabling it to dissolve more and more volatile gases and surrounding rocks. Once this heat reaches a certain threshold, then an explosive eruption is inevitable. But if more of the heat could be extracted, then the supervolcano would never erupt. The only question is how?

One possibility is to simply increase the amount of water in the supervolcano. But from a practical perspective, it would likely be impossible to convince politicians to sanction such an initiative. If a supervolcano erupts, it will be many, many times more powerful than this Indonesian volcano Credit: Getty Images. Instead Nasa have conceived a very different plan.

I hate that damn volcano. The woman who was severely burned earlier this month at Yellowstone National Park is beginning to. Park officials say this was the busiest September on record, and the first time ever that.

A young woman who was severely burned last week in a Yellowstone National Park thermal area. Share This Facebook Twitter Email. Tags: volcano Yellowstone National Park. You might be interested in. Show comments.