“SUPERVOLCANO” WARNING-SCIENTISTS WARN THAT THE WORLD ISN’T READY FOR YELLOWSTONE ERUPTION, MILLIONS WOULD DIE
A YELLOWSTONE volcano eruption could kill scores of people, rock economies, disrupt air travel and even threaten peace as the world is unprepared for the next major volcanic blast, scientists have warned.
A team of volcanologists said the next major eruption could very well happen in our lifetimes, and urged governments to start making emergency plans.
In a paper published in Geosphere, authors wrote: “A VEI-7 eruption could destabilise financial centres, air travel, national economies and even peace between nations.”
A city could be decimated if a VEI-7 hit, as hot gases, lava and ash can travel 60 miles from the volcano, researchers said.
The study said: “Any town or city in the path would be destroyed, and death tolls could reach millions unless mass evacuations had been made.”
Death tolls could reach millions unless mass evacuations had been made.
Researchers wrote: “Given the incredibly complex logistics of food, water, health care and other supplies in an urban area, imagine the logistical nightmare if transport within any large city were stopped even for a week or two.
“Millions of hungry people do not stay quiet for long. National leadership may be challenged and replaced.”
The most recent major eruption was in 1980 when Mount St Helen in Washington state blew killing hundreds of people and even causing global cooling.
The last eruption registering 7 or higher on the Volcanic Explosively Index (VEI) happened in Indonesia in 1815.
Chris Newhall, volcanologist and lead author of the paper, told Nature: “The next VEI-7 eruption could occur within our lifetimes, or it could be hundreds of years down the road.”
Writing in Geosphere, the experts said massive 7 eruptions occur on average twice every 1,000 years.
The last eruption registering 7 or higher on the Volcanic Explosively Index (VEI) happened in Indonesia in 1815.
Chris Newhall, volcanologist and lead author of the paper, told Nature: “The next VEI-7 eruption could occur within our lifetimes, or it could be hundreds of years down the road.”
Seismologists from UNAVCO, a nonprofit university-governed consortium, said the site was “under strain”.
They said “the strain signal is larger than would be expected if the crust under Yellowstone were completely solid”.
However these findings are “no cause for alarm”, they said, and reflect the expected measurements of a volcano which has been building up for close to a million years.
A YELLOWSTONE volcano eruption could kill scores of people, rock economies, disrupt air travel and even threaten peace as the world is unprepared for the next major volcanic blast, scientists have warned.https://www.newsprepper.com/supervolcano-warning-scientists-warn-that-the-world-isnt-ready-for-yellowstone-eruption-millions-would-die/
Posted by NewsPrepper on Thursday, May 11, 2017
By CHLOE KERR
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