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  • seventy four thousand years ago

  • in indonesia

  • gigantic volcanic eruption

  • either

  • people asking the trial was a full-time international switches to the supreme

  • council of economic sense

  • attributable global panicked winter

  • and

  • the crater left behind by the some russian

  • was larger than the city of london

  • police was no ordinary eruption

  • it was a super corruption

  • at the time

  • the human race was in its infancy for just a few thousand people kya pine the

  • planet

  • but what is the next half of the russians occurred in the heart of the

  • country system to three hundred million people

  • if we see one of the issues that because the defense today particularly in

  • industrialized country for example and another civilian is good

  • then the effects would be devastating not only that computer for the the whole

  • family

  • this is a rupture

  • the consequences

  • could be catastrophic there is some isn't constantly completely devastated

  • the load effects is groups

  • and by consulting with leading geologist invoking allah just from research

  • institutes all around the world

  • this program costs the question

  • how unlikely isn't

  • the pianist in super bowl canaan

  • one arrest in our lifetime

  • forth with the warning signs p

  • when most people think about forty minutes

  • they think about ones like mount saint helens here

  • don t ninety

  • freeway conduct online forms for approval one hundred and twenty years

  • with the explosive power form of some of our methods

  • second

  • blasted a huge clouds of foam comic every twenty kilometers high into the

  • atmosphere

  • and obliterated the surrounding landscape

  • it was the most violent eruption in modern american history

  • maybe twenty five years later the there is still hasn't recovered

  • but this is nothing compared to the devastation that could be unleashed

  • by super corruption

  • asleep eruption is the world's biggest bag

  • it's a volcanic explosion big enough to do a loaf all of us

  • and with the restriction after fake everyone on the planet

  • pad

  • conference table

  • another characteristic that sits at the volcanoes apart

  • the same invisibility

  • normal volcanoes about classic handshake

  • and mount saint helens is an excellent example of that

  • super volcano is on the other hand of very flat buying structures that very

  • difficult to detect and we may not even know today

  • possible insist

  • after interrupted

  • when the underground chamber molten rock

  • collapses

  • leaving behind a creature in the granite

  • called account and

  • so fast of his countenance

  • pecan often

  • i'm delighted to find constraints

  • super bowl games have been found in internees year

  • but the world's most recent super eruption someplace dot in new zealand

  • and in south america

  • val even very engine company risk in britain

  • but like most superbowl cannons

  • their long extinct

  • one of the exceptions however

  • is the yellowstone super volcano

  • yellowstone

  • is america's most famous

  • unpopular national park

  • over three million visitors a traumatic every year

  • trip ma the biggest collection of hydrothermal features on the planet

  • a few people realize however

  • is that this spectacular display

  • is powered by a potentially deadly force

  • that lies just a few kilometers

  • beneath their feet

  • there is such a tremendous collection because this is

  • afterall sitting on top of

  • the large reservoir meghna

  • heats the rocks keeps the wires fuels the system

  • purchasing people going to yellowstone holidaying fixation with

  • the really surprised to know that they were walking a volcano which was close

  • to a hundred kilometers across

  • today pianist in super bowl came in

  • even in installments state

  • is an extremely hazardous and volatile environment

  • the huge reservoir of maxon beneath the ground

  • heats the overlying water

  • giving rise to the polling hot springs

  • cousins models

  • injured and killed

  • unsuspecting tourists

  • then of course as the ever-present threat of the future of all kind of

  • corruption

  • interruption the kabhi anything from a small flow of lava

  • to the biggest and most explosive eruption

  • off the mall

  • recent erupted fifty devastated

  • they were small eruptions maybe every twenty to thirty thousand years that we

  • have seen anything for seventy thousand that mike might tell you something was a

  • veggie

  • it's also said some of its gonna be another sleep eruption somewhere on the

  • planet

  • whether they'll be another one of yellowstone is still questionable

  • there's a reason which also will be

  • they would in fact of the cat throughout its history than august stopped

  • occurring just because we the people missing

  • because the world's last super eruption occurred over seventy thousand years ago

  • it's difficult to know what to expect from the next point

  • to

  • intriguing because archaeologists working in the town of all chipped in

  • nebraska

  • who first discovered evidence

  • just how devastating

  • super eruptions compete

  • a compost skeletons hundreds of prehistoric animals blueberries domestic

  • blanket

  • of folk and a catch

  • when scientists eventually trace the eruption that killed the animals

  • they had a shock

  • the volcano responsible

  • was at a place called bruno job ridge in hideout

  • an astonishing one thousand six hundred kilometers away from the fossil bird

  • in nebraska

  • the disturbing thing is

  • the power of the fueled the bruno job interruption

  • is now feeling the volcanic system

  • under yellowstone national park

  • meaning

  • many of the world for pain is in a treated ran the margins of the tectonic

  • plates which make up the v_ chip

  • out the kind of pace for the planet together stands it is a bit different

  • yell if any shipping above post-cold hot spot

  • and here you have

  • uh... hot mathilde bs mantle coming up with hitting the base of the s crust and

  • melting

  • hostels

  • is affixed point

  • deep within the earth's interior

  • over which the north american plagues

  • slowly move

  • it melts the overlying crossed

  • to create a huge chain of molten rock

  • on nightline

  • which eventually accumulates

  • to produce a super induction

  • po for millions of years

  • the super eruptions

  • have left a trail of couse there is only scratched

  • bruno job bridge

  • is wonderful

  • over two million years ago

  • hosp authorized beneath yellowstone

  • avenue cyclists who put their options

  • there

  • as the scientist in charge of the day on the stand for children since the trip

  • jekyll island stir expert in the box volcanic potential

  • pressed the valley we see this note clad range

  • gallen reached and he's a rockstar far older than the yellowstone volcano

  • what's up

  • when you get to the south end of the range

  • that's where the car they re begins for the two point one million year old

  • around

  • there's an enormous gap in the mountain range

  • where it crosses the caldera formed by the first super eruption

  • for years

  • scientists

  • couldn't work out line

  • it appears that what happened is that the range did exist during that time

  • and that it was essentially swallowed up in formation of the collabera two point

  • one million years ago

  • says that the mountain century disappear

  • interruption capable of swallowing eighteen kilometers stretch of mountains

  • is beyond anything we've ever witnessed before

  • since then

  • boasting to more super corruption is concerned

  • one point three million years ago

  • and six hundred and forty thousand together

  • disturbingly

  • these eruptions appears to be honest cycle

  • between six hundred to seven hundred thousand years

  • and the last one

  • was six hundred and forty

  • thousand years ago

  • good enough of the imminent

  • she very difficult to say for sure what's happening and nathalie volcanoes

  • canister

  • it could be that the mexican election

  • his another hundred passes from now

  • competing

  • infantrymen brewing a few other stuff

  • for with the warning signs the

  • skies of based solely on a stone stressed popular tourist attractions

  • let in the summer of two thousand and three springsteen's to happen here

  • ground temperatures salt to boiling point

  • several guys has started to rub more frequently and a new series of things

  • opened up

  • spewing out

  • scorching photonic gases

  • closure was put into place immediately over the uh... area that have been at

  • the new thermal feature that was

  • spewing now boiling temperature city tonight on to the trail so we viewed it

  • it was unsafe for visitors to be walking through the area

  • trees are starting to died the trail was looking very very different

  • because dean was actually convincing on the surface of the trail

  • the stranger fence also appear to have an effect on the local wildlife

  • and just about done

  • twelve little bit more than half my alert kilometer behind me

  • five

  • ison all within about forty five meter radius of each other that we're just

  • fallen over

  • they have right where they stand

  • and so it turned into a bit of a mystery

  • scientists descended on to the area to try to work out what was going on

  • we went there and started looking at the geology measured very very high levels

  • of hydrogen sulfide and then when jake was that he really are

  • this summer in asia it's an extremely high concentration levels of carbon

  • dioxide

  • it's test results pointed to the price sometimes explosives

  • and items so far it's jumped up and down outside items gases sunday night

  • black escaped from the chamber andy making its way to the surface

  • there's another mobile field science mathematics rising kit prior to our

  • options we're looking for ground information movement that the ground

  • affords

  • it indicates that make mister price in

  • towards the surface and deforming rock as it goes

  • to keep track of improvement that the other students

  • scientists use g_p_s_ instruments

  • and a new highly advanced techniques cold inside

  • desires to sell a basic knowledge in

  • you're looking at the distance between the satellite and a point on the ground

  • you get one image and then you can compare it to another image taken it a

  • different time and by comparing those two images that you can see how much

  • each point in the ground has moved with respect to the satellite

  • when scientists analyzed the inside data further north spacesuit

  • they were surprised

  • one of the scientists here's a look at the gate and compared it with earlier

  • years nineteen ninety-six and saw that they have been sent up within the

  • northern part of the yellowstone collabera

  • centered around here not far from the north geyser basin and this was unusual

  • because it was a different area than the effort witnessed uplifting before

  • their data shows but over the last seven years ground-up numbers has been

  • steadily uplifting

  • should they be wiring

  • there at least two possibilities for why we might get tough with at norris

  • one possibility is that somewhere deep in the system ten to fifteen kilometers

  • there is a small injection of magma

  • that's pushing rock out of the way and causes a mud

  • another possibility is that gas build-up is causing some of the applicant asking

  • to be coming from the magma

  • or from the hydrothermal systems

  • did take the phenomena going

  • it could be there

  • mcnamee is moving

  • but it'll never reach the surface

  • this activity would die down that's a very common situation it could be that

  • michael will reach the

  • synthesis on stage in concert

  • a small eruption

  • politicos

  • expertise

  • possible that

  • if mcquay surface we could go into a much

  • bigger option

  • yeah

  • morris is not the only area if the park

  • that's been causing concern

  • in nineteen ninety nine

  • a team of scientists from the u_s_ to launch a consensus

  • began a detailed study

  • off the floor

  • yellowstone lake

  • hot

  • one striking new feature

  • in particular

  • caught our attention

  • it was a seven hundred meter long boldchat

  • which rose thirteen inches above the lake floors

  • stakeholder

  • inflated play

  • to get a better look at this new feature

  • they used to remove the operated camera

  • the images revealed

  • the sentiments resting on the top of the bulge

  • showed signs of disturbance

  • an indication

  • but it could be swelling

  • forcing the moment is the so-called inflated claims is a sort of update

  • invariant beneath yellowstone lake

  • now that may at some point in the future herald

  • hypothermic place

  • the sixteen different lofty cooling effect immediate area

  • forty-three

  • subside the religious studies it is it's really impossible to say what's gonna

  • happen

  • hydrothermal exclusions

  • can indicates that a volcano history

  • whitaker threw out a list of history

  • without stryker interruptions

  • the thing about yellowstone is it service desk all day on that

  • means it is always doing something so you have clearly have magma dot mary

  • seeking groundwater festivities at the hoffman politica

  • he's also inflating the ground surface which is going up and down over pizza

  • decades of centuries

  • this activity is not unusual the others

  • difficulty for scientists

  • is that many of the signs they rely on to protect eruptions other volcanoes

  • accompanied the time of youngstown

  • there's another warning sign our the scientists comes in

  • magma thank you for mv

  • tens of comfort beneath the surface if not the load to get from there to the

  • surface

  • make a powerful stuff in it does look like breaking rocks

  • that breaking the rock generates earthquakes that we can protect those

  • who we know the magnet on his way out

  • many earthquakes that yellowstone's very seismically active region there anywhere

  • between about one thousand three thousand earthquakes here in any given

  • year

  • most of the earthquakes is so small

  • but they can only be detected by seismologist

  • but they can be exceptions

  • fairy directly penitentiary doctor outdoor play

  • united american and fifteen million dollars american rock

  • pollinate alcohol problem

  • thundered across the park campground in one of the media landline

  • helicopters restaurant three hundred camera and what happened i mean the

  • mechanics fine

  • leading beyond all major most vacationers when alexander penelope

  • rendered north survivors continues throughout the

  • an evacuation of all a

  • here tremble

  • and a lot of american labor making land

  • later

  • although the collective group was devastated

  • it could have been so much worse

  • because the earthquakes of magnitude seven and higher

  • have the power to trigger election

  • and other markets around the world people have found a correlation between

  • large earthquakes standoff anger at least

  • that may happen in the past in yellowstone and distant past and it

  • potentially could happen in future

  • larger earthquakes pose a risk because they can fracture of the heart of the

  • volcano

  • the magnitude of

  • and allow its contents to skate

  • understanding what's going on inside the matching

  • is the only reliable way

  • to predict behavior folding

  • magnitude is really dimension

  • it's pots of

  • the process of leading up still interruption

  • mass was scientists we need to understand

  • what's going on hectic below the volcano

  • a

  • to build up an image of the magma chamber

  • professor bob smith

  • is harnessing the many earthquakes that take place afghanistan

  • using a network of sites moments was positions

  • all around the park

  • this photograph provided the data

  • waves passing through the roof

  • seismologist user data

  • as a window that is we're looking down into the earth to get a

  • three-dimensional m

  • earthquakes generates and waves constructing sewer through the heart

  • into inside the magnitude of

  • but they do through the cold surrounded by law

  • by measuring the different times taken for ways to reach the seismographs papas

  • revealed the size of the magma chamber

  • i'd

  • provided the also magnetic system

  • is about twenty to twenty-five thousand cubic kilometers

  • it's about fifty films as long

  • forty kilometers wide

  • and h kilometers d

  • in other words

  • the magma chamber is over three times the size

  • of new york city

  • coat size alone doesn't it takes the possibility

  • of a supermarket

  • many people might think that killer stand with the underlying vashi

  • defoliant molson rock

  • hope that's not really

  • quite the case because seismic studies completely understand show than in

  • actual fact the liquid look is distributed between solid

  • and maybe

  • thirty percent of cool

  • what you need for a suitable and corruption is for that liquid

  • will two separate informed and launching their of book almost purely quit

  • that led to the top of the change

  • and that's when you can get seafood conditions reciprocal and corruption

  • to qualify as a super corruption

  • one thousand cubic kilometers of macbeth needs to be erupted

  • yellowstone's mike mentioned uh...

  • contains around five times that amount

  • is the molten rock at the top of the chamber

  • frustratingly

  • this is one question scientists' current currently owns

  • trying to find out exactly what candle is on the ground

  • the images we get to the magma chamber or

  • very inexact so we can really known details of how this motion walkers

  • distributed to me concerts to the course of the moment the wrongs

  • uh... some pockets of purely emotional could which could erupt

  • although there's more than enough rocked a few minutes and corruption

  • statistically it's much more likely to commit starting this morning

  • almost a crowd

  • have

  • but didn't think that the science of scientists demand

  • canadians

  • far more likely that if there is an election it will be lost

  • instead price comparison

  • to mount saint helens

  • the yellowstone sciences don't believe the even smaller fraction is growing

  • the kinds of things that we see

  • have been going on ever since people have been coming to the park and

  • geologic evidence seems to indicate that they've been going on for at least the

  • last ten thousand lives

  • so at this point in time we don't really see indications from ground operation

  • from earthquakes or from cast that there's any sort of really unusual

  • activity going on at yellowstone it with the precursor to a of all can corruption

  • is there a chance

  • interruption could happen in our lifetime

  • i could say no

  • but i wont

  • because

  • this is a rock and assistant i don't know

  • but i'm very interested in finding out

  • we could have an eruption extn

  • but we could have to wait many thousands of years to come

  • though i wouldn't be surprised if there was another eruption in my lifetime but

  • i will also would be surprised if it wasn't

  • all right

  • the spectacular features of yellowstone national

  • for millions of people

  • every year

  • a

  • what few of them realize is that they inside the crater of the world's largest

  • volcano

  • decision runs it contributed to his head to a disaster

  • in human history

  • this is a russian happen

  • the consequences

  • could be catastrophic

  • size of the continent would be completely devastated

  • new beetle open effects four years old twins

  • based on specially commissioned research

  • for scientific organizations around the world

  • this program but it's the sequence of events that would follow a super

  • ruptured yellowstone week if not impossible for a future separately get a

  • fair

  • kill more people the profit from it

  • than all previous volcanic eruptions put together

  • and reveals the consequences for america

  • and the rest of the world

  • we don't trained prepare for exercise anything near discuss at this event

  • need to do some large-scale multi-state multi region exercises for terrorism

  • biological nuclear kinds of events nothing comes close to the scaling the

  • magnitude of the city

  • and i hope i never see him out

  • simple canceled one of the latest rarest

  • most deadly phenomenon

  • massive eruption is the world's biggest bag

  • visible panic explosion

  • big enough to draw all others

  • and with the reach great enough to affect everyone on the planet

  • there are about forty simple hands around the world

  • extinct

  • one of the exceptions however

  • this weekend instead signify canada

  • three times in the financial stocks

  • which is about to for the force beyond anything mankind has ever witnessed

  • two point one million years ago

  • one point three million years ago

  • and six hundred and forty thousand years ago

  • these cycles suggests tomato soup corruption

  • maybe proving

  • trashy very difficult to say for sure what's happening and he says volcanoes

  • canister

  • it could be that the mexican elections another hundred thousand years from now

  • bold

  • the key to predicting the behavior of the super volcano lies beneath the

  • ground

  • in the american agenda

  • which is filled with molten rock or montana

  • exp three kilometers long

  • forty kilometers wide

  • and trying to come on tuesday

  • that's almost the size

  • of yellowstone park excel

  • and there's more than enough magnet on that

  • to fuel another supernatant

  • someone could set it off

  • relieving corruption fiscal and could probably take place by

  • numeric not coming in from much greater depths of the earth coming into the

  • night but chamber increasing the pressure that pressures enough to make

  • the rocks failed and i think it's the surface to dropped cats professor

  • steve's crowds

  • is studying ways to stimulate is processed

  • c_n_n_'s against this is only the in this instant weekend is taking good for

  • the forests

  • and so was there and if you're staying with disintegrates speaking to a

  • tremendous insights into health nature behaves but by reproducing in the lab

  • conditions on the ground it's possible to see what happens when vast quantities

  • of gas trapped inside the magna under pressure what happens at the beginning

  • of the

  • security sufficiently something like this

  • some in the roof of the magnitude of crafts

  • police bubbles in the justice system

  • spontaneously disintegrate

  • that's really why begets dramatically violent explosive eruptions

  • sick of all kinds

  • i'd dimension of explosive eruptions damage they inflicted poorly understood

  • dental wandering in nineteen eighty

  • mount saint helens was the biggest explosive eruptions america as a witness

  • they provided scientists with valuable things

  • the transfer

  • can be applied was super option

  • suitable coming from russian

  • starts

  • the first thing that would happen would be clouds of folk any cash that rises in

  • the atmosphere of alike in mount saint helens only the activity would be much

  • more intense and much more energetic so the cloud would probably go to forty or

  • fifty kilometers of his surface welcome about twenty is immense independents

  • scientists have calculated that the force of the mount saint helens around

  • june

  • was equivalent to one of two blocks from a bomb

  • exploding every second

  • asleep at the russian however would be the equivalent of over one thousand

  • corruption of arms

  • this force with the power eruption column of cast into action

  • high into the sky

  • by the first to be affected would be aircraft

  • on the evening of the twenty fourth of june nineteen eighty two

  • captain recommending

  • going to be a fun time

  • on route from kuala lumpur

  • across the indian ocean

  • for some trouble

  • attacking the display of an electrical phenomena

  • called centered on the spot

  • usually calls by and large thunderstorm

  • i was not the only on the radar to see where

  • perhaps this heavy thunder clap laws

  • that i could see nothing

  • soda discussing that when the five engineer who sits in the middle between

  • us

  • last fall the whole evening by the same number four engines failed

  • attorneys for the third by saying

  • number two is gone

  • number three strong

  • identified in the big screen tv said we've lost a lot but still four engines

  • and that just doesn't happen

  • london for the crew

  • the volcano in java interrupted and the plane's flight departs eleven straight

  • through the eruption com which if treated not justin thomas five total

  • engine failure

  • volcanic ash noncommercial aircraft just don't mix the reason for that is that

  • the ash

  • gets into the aircraft engines when the participant of their international

  • rather trying climate bothered

  • that means at our own heats up the engines emails u_s_ intervention by

  • mates minutes on said

  • displays a gentler we have a small problem all four inches filed

  • with a stupid

  • i trust reluctant to much distress

  • auditing terrified attendance

  • after from forming for twelve noon vitamins confinement

  • just from the crash we come down to around about it

  • twelve and a half hours because they said it has been

  • a number four engine the first whether the fire

  • started

  • donated a million and a half

  • before

  • number three staff

  • so we're beginning to think this light in the end of the tunnel

  • and then about twenty seconds after that one and two started up together

  • azeri guided the plane down for an emergency landing

  • he discovered yet another problem

  • it wasn't until

  • we've actually got down towards

  • i realized that

  • the windscreen

  • goal okay

  • because volcanic ash particles that shocked and pretty soon effectively

  • stand blasted the cockpit window

  • the only did we could

  • as seattle with to ensure bag inside of my uh... extreme nationalist revised its

  • offices with them

  • and i think they have a standing up

  • we talk about a hundred feet again the runway by south african restaurant stuff

  • incivility menachem diana the airplane almost and of itself

  • justice yahoo was wonderful

  • thousands of planes fly to american espace everyday

  • begins students interruption but not just jeopardize the safety

  • hit the ground all flights for months

  • because of the xio phone

  • you before coming to agree

  • that would be a ruptured

  • first yet if it refreshes

  • injected a bit two-and-a-half thousand cubic kilometers that they treat m_s_

  • analysis with want to keep it on to say with dealing with something

  • two-and-a-half thousand conficker it's it's almost unimaginable all

  • demonstration calls financing terms

  • couple marianne

  • approximately six hundred square kilometers

  • out experts predict principal option at least in what effect nearly

  • three-quarters fantasticks

  • find out how america would deal with the disaster such colossal scale

  • we consulted with the organization who would be responsible for trying to

  • control the disaster

  • the federal emergency management agency

  • mission is too

  • lead america in preparing for responding to my country from disasters

  • to date

  • the biggest emergency phenotypes coordinate

  • was the rescue operation following the nine eleven attacks

  • from new york city in two thousand won't

  • nine eleven or twelve zero zero three two and

  • covered up roughly sixteen acres and listen attentively corner

  • uh... with one point eight billion tons of debris

  • and as i understand the impacts the yellowstone russian

  • well we're talking about a million times the size of ground zero and certainly

  • would be by far bigger than anything we've ever responded to

  • it's just beyond anything comprehensible

  • to help them find and compare to the impact of impending disaster

  • feelings of powerful computer model

  • dana's houses

  • has this is a predictive modeling cool

  • what it does is give us an uh...

  • prediction of the overall impacts a disaster may have on

  • critical infrastructure

  • hospitals

  • morals

  • you can handle it brings visions in focus of our resources energy components

  • that specific

  • based on data gathered from previous yellowstone soup in the russians

  • we provided female with a math depicting the project inform and from interruption

  • one assumes going on

  • the programs this information

  • into houses to calculate the best human life within a series of zones

  • across the united states

  • someone

  • just a part of plastic soon

  • pirate ashtec's searches of the most deadly product of an explosive eruptions

  • depression propelling the election column high into the m

  • did suggest a second

  • causing part of the column to spill from the start of the volcano

  • interfacing the name

  • avalanche

  • perfect place

  • the form to explosive eruptions and they consist of

  • very high temperature mixtures of scorching volcanic gases

  • and very hard cash vision plus across state the surface of the earth of the

  • hostages tennessee exceed the speed of sound

  • so these are truly devastating phenomena

  • podcasting searches from them and sometimes about destroyed everything

  • within about twenty feet kilometer radius of the volcano

  • researchers from the super production at yellowstone

  • could stand up to one hundred kilometers from the volcano

  • annihilating an area of ten thousand square kilometers imposing devastating

  • threat everyone who lives there

  • doctor peter tax status familiar with the appalling injuries that can be

  • sustained by victims of particles extensions

  • these very large protested says the devotion survive

  • where people have been course in the intense heat

  • appointed recently

  • body

  • starts to cook very quickly

  • some extra bentsen's in nineteen twenty three percent

  • closest connection organized

  • incident cases reporting was destroyed in the heat

  • based upon the information

  • provided by fina

  • dr baxter and a team of other expense

  • but able to calculate the potential death toll

  • within the power of passed its own

  • in the world scenario people because of a

  • harvested from the forces of bridge

  • and people caught outside for example of a very good chance

  • all for the consumer experience

  • approximately eighty seven thousand people could be killed artistic flows

  • but some alternative h ninety percent

  • devastating there these figures are

  • they pale into insignificance twenty yellowstone's espoused begins to spread

  • teltanter i might occur

  • don't

  • it

  • kismat was caught under the ash cloud from the mount saint helens about you

  • tonight

  • dance all also

  • the supplies tells the tale

  • for cutting taxes at the rolling innocuous looking substance is known as

  • spectacular has a good part of uh... loafers

  • but it's extremely damaging aniket cause or solve the problems

  • in an exclusive piece of research commissioned by the bbc

  • the u_k_ mets office run a model simulating the actual amount from a

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  • faces anyone called within a thousand kilometers of the volcano

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  • rounds of yellowstone

  • with the national institute says the two sentences

  • was projections just hundreds of thousands of people stars

  • either from rooftops all through suffocation from inhaling find actions

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  • it can affect transport can bring down followings fiction contaminated water

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  • financial crime into mark fuhrman's

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  • in nineteen eighty-five columbia lars killed at the twenty three thousand

  • people

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  • according to hazards

  • the total death toll due to ash related courses with the approximately half a

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  • eruptions of the past twelve thousand years

  • doctor john grafton has been researching the effects of the lock eruption

  • he's leaving the historical record

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  • those people who did not have enough anderson's supplies francesca for these

  • kinds of questions

  • suffocate pain

  • the bodies became bloated

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  • to find out how they died

  • archaeologists have recently begun excavating the lockheed victims

  • once the storms were removed from the graves

  • they were sent to the u_k_

  • for detailed analysis

  • by doctor peter baxter

  • when we took today's from the grave

  • for the first thing we could see it for some emotion based at times

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  • the analysis suggests

  • the bellagio russian released vast quantities of flooding

  • highly toxic cast

  • his calls a condition called flourishes

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  • killing the victims

  • or crippling them for life

  • cashflow from a super corruption of yellowstone release extremely high

  • levels of flirting casts into the atmosphere

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  • the stratosphere is the atmosphere about the highest files that you can see

  • what happens is when i watch that myself uric acid gets into the stratosphere

  • dogs clouds a water that rush to bring it out the problem is but you can stay

  • there for years and years

  • and so strange that they don't

  • defects sunlight away from the

  • causing temperatures dropped

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  • this model shows the aerosols generated by regular sized structure

  • hard to find out how much ourselves to be released by super corruptions

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  • high schools to play the ones to infinity reference festival recluse

  • what's happened in the climate of the last unintended house in years

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  • and one of these high schools

  • scientists discover the self a signal bigger than anything they'd ever seen

  • before

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  • thousand years ago

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  • to have occurred on the planet

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  • simulating the global effects the super ruptured

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  • after just three weeks

  • the aerosols reformers sulfurous cloak around the world

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  • scale never witnessed before

  • a new stimulation from the left office

  • shows how dramatic these climate changes would be

  • after the other since you grew up simply walked into the planet

  • in the higher latitudes over you open it u_s_a_ attention to a point twelve

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  • absolute chaos

  • even more shocking however

  • is what happens in the tropics

  • but temperatures would drop by up to fifteen degrees

  • distinction consequences

  • almost since the southeast asia would fail

  • these life giving names which are essential for feeding

  • two-fifths of the world's population would frail meaning that's they would be

  • mass starvation in southeast asia

  • while yellowstone's geothermal history suggests that there will be another

  • super corruption at some stage in the future

  • scientists agree

  • the chances of that happening in our lifetime

  • are extremely remote

  • if it were to happen however

  • devastation

  • booking essential

  • of cataclysmic

  • so how working on it a surprise

  • when the last three project at a table sit the four thousand years ago

  • there weren't many humans on the planet

  • they may well have been affected that's quite dramatically in terms of their

  • numbers being reduced

  • for pocket in otherwise we wouldn't be here today

  • now we're dealing with a planets have political prisoner six-and-a-half

  • billion people deficit-reduction happen tomorrow

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  • and

  • ironically if this election happened in the dark ages

  • is and this is an affectionate is no like spontaneous by have great faith in

  • humanity

  • i think if something like this did occur

  • the nations of the planet would pull together because resource is www is so

  • limited but they would have to be shared supplied would see this as a opportunity

  • for humanity sheriff self-interest realized

seventy four thousand years ago

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