Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruption Predicted

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Yellowstone supervolcano

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What Earth would look like if Yellowstone's supervolcano erupted

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Yellowstone has the potential to unleash a category eight eruption over 100 times more powerful than Krakatoa .

It is thought that, were Yellowstone to erupt, the initial blast would release the energy of 875,000 megatons of TNT - more than 100 times the power of every nuclear bomb ever dropped.

While the blast would kill thousands and send rivers of molten lava pouring up to 40 miles ( 64km ) from the eruption site, this would only be the start of the devastation.

Experts predict that every town in a 50-mile ( 80km ) radius would be all but annihilated by the same pyroclastic flows that created the petrified figures of Pompeii .

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Ash could travel up to 932 miles ( 1,500 km ) upwind, reaching as far as Miami and LA .

Cities within 311 miles ( 500km ) of the eruption could be covered with more than a metre ( 3ft ) of ash.

Even cities as far from the eruption as Chicago , Seattle , and San Francisco could be coated with up to 3cm of ash. If the eruption happened when the conditions were perfect, London might even see some light ashfall.

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