The Yellowstone eruption simulation shows how the world could REALLY end a few days after the blast | Science | New

The Yellowstone Wyoming supervolcano has long been feared by humans because an eruption could devastate the planet. And a video proves that we have every right to fear the huge caldera because destruction would begin instantly. Anything within a 50-mile radius of the eruption zone would instantly be destroyed by the pyroclastic flow – a very hot gas stream – meaning that the neighboring towns of Heltonville and Nashville, both located in the city, are located in the area. Indiana would no longer be so.

The narrator of the Naked Science video said, "Less than an hour after an eruption in Yellowstone, pyroclastic flows could cross the countryside.

"Within 60 miles, 90% of the remaining people would be killed. Some could be shattered during the initial explosion, most would suffocate under the heat of the pyroclastic flows. "

However, this would only be the beginning of the devastation, according to the video.

A huge cloud of ash could cover the United States within three days and planes would fall from the sky.

The video continues: "The United States would be the mother of all the clouds of ashes. An aerial mountain of deadly particles and debris

"A super eruption in Yellowstone could throw 15 km of ash into the atmosphere, the fallout could affect half of the United States.

"Three days after the eruption, the sky could be dark and deadly.

"Six times heavier than wet snow, ashes would cause many roofs to collapse, fouling the filters of boats and planes on the ground. Any plane in flight could crash.

The massive eruption could be 6,000 times more powerful than Mount St Helens in Washington in 1980, which killed 57 people and left ashes in 11 different states and five Canadian provinces.

If the volcano explodes, a climate change will ensue because it will reject massive amounts of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere, which can form a sulfur aerosol that reflects and absorbs sunlight.

However, the experts insisted that there was a very small chance of an imminent eruption.

According to the USGS, the odds of such an event are 0.00014 percent, which is lower than the chances that an asteroid destroying civilization strikes.