Every day, the world scientific community is more and more concerned about the Yellowstone Supervolcano - last news 2018 is even more alarming than last year, and the latest ones give reason to think about a universal catastrophe - the volcano is about to wake up and begin an eruption. Pessimists prophesy that the population of the Earth after it will have water and provisions for 74 days (no more and no less), optimists consider global projects cooling the hazardous area with water. The colossal dimensions of the basin in which the Yellowstone supervolcano is located illuminate the latest news of 2018. The inability to count the number of daily tremors, dull and panicky forecasts are very frightening - this is today's information space surrounding a gigantic area.

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Yellowstone volcano - some facts

The colossal space on which the basin is located makes it possible to classify it as a supervolcano. It is located in the park of the same name, and today it occupies more than a third of it. The US state of Wyoming, which contains a unique natural complex, believes that the basin of the volcanic explosive mechanism is a huge segment, the area of ​​\u200b\u200bwhich is approximately 72X55 km. This is much larger than the area of ​​such megacities as Moscow and New York.

The number of tremors that the Yellowstone supervolcano produces is published by the latest news of 2018, disclosed by scientific research centers, but they simply cannot give the exact number of microshakes due to a malfunction in the equipment. The official data for September is 115 earthquakes, but the complexity of the calculations lies in the fact that they continue in swarms and are observed at different distances from the center of the volcano.

Yellowstone is not the only hotspot on the globe. Kilauea in Hawaii and Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland pose no less danger to the world's population if their activity reaches a critical point.

Dangerous points are the result of burning the planet's mantle earth's crust. According to scientific research, the last eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano was 639 thousand years ago, and it not only instantly lowered the temperature sea ​​water by 3 degrees, but also covered almost all of North America with volcanic ash.

Possible risks and possible dangers

April 2016 marked the North America a series of earthquakes felt throughout the territory. It was then that scientists started talking about the likely danger that volcanic activity could pose to humanity. Magma penetrating the burnt hole approaches the surface and accumulates under it in a huge reservoir.

The danger is compounded by the fact that heat fiery substance melts the walls of the reservoir, absorbs nearby rocks and becomes thicker from this. The higher the density of the magma, the more pressure it exerts on the caldera in which it accumulates.

The imminent inevitability of an explosion is also indicated by the behavior of animals that previously lived in nature reserve. There are often shots of bison running from the park. The Yellowstone supervolcano and the latest news about it in 2018, which thundered on the night of October 3-4, is an alarming subject of concern for the world scientific community. After all, it was on this night from the Old Faithful, himself famous geyser dangerous region, poured thick black smoke. This behavior of the volcano indicates signs of an imminent eruption, as a result of which millions of cubic meters of magma will escape to the surface of the Earth, and great amount heat. This could cause a global ecological catastrophe.

The Russian Academy of Sciences reported that so far there is no reason to even talk about the approximate date of the impending catastrophe, let alone name any exact numbers. According to American scientists, the eruption could lead to the death of at least 87 thousand people, which cannot but inspire concern.

Optimistic notes

American scientists tend to be somewhat optimistic. According to statistics, which they themselves declared not entirely accurate due to a malfunction in the equipment, at the end of September current year about 2475 earthquakes were recorded in the swarm. In 1985, a powerful swarm amounted to more than 3 thousand tremors, after which volcanic activity went into decline. According to some data, for example, according to the calculations of the station of the University of Utah, this October there is a relative decline in seismic activity in the region.

It is difficult to draw any conclusions, because the research stations are still collecting statistical data, and only in the near future intend to analyze them.

To prevent the coming catastrophe, the most incredible projects- from pumping out heat from the caldera of a volcano, to cooling it with water. Heat pumping as a technique is already being used in some countries, but the scale of work at Yellowstone requires further development.

The scale of the coming catastrophe - will the volcano explode?

Even if we are guided by the minimum degree of future risk, the eruption of a supervolcano threatens irreversible consequences. Wyoming, Montana and Idaho will be completely destroyed, the US Northwest is isolated, life support systems are damaged. If we take into account the maximum degree of risk, then the echo of the eruption will reach Europe.

The paranoid moods of global world politics have not bypassed even natural disasters. certain part The American public is sure that Russia has a tectonic weapon with which it provokes and extinguishes earthquakes, and the Yellowstone volcano is the fruit of the activity of the Russian Federation hostile to America.

NASA experts consider the caldera in Wyoming the most dangerous in the world ecosystem, and sound the alarm about the impending catastrophe, urging them to make the best possible efforts to prevent it. Status monitoring danger zone carries out all scientific world planets. Supervolcano Yellowstone is dangerous, stay tuned for the latest news in 2018.

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Rumors are circulating on the web about imminent eruption located on the territory of the United States of the famous giant volcano Yellowstone. According to media reports, an earthquake of magnitude 4.8 on the Richter scale has already been recorded in the region, and animals from the reserve located in the Yellowstone Caldera are leaving their usual habitats. A supervolcano could destroy America anytime - in 100 years or as early as next week...

Americans are alarmed by the fact that bison are fleeing from Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, where the crater of a giant volcano measuring 55 by 72 km is located. Animals are the first to feel danger and leave the territory, which is fraught with danger to life.

The territory of Yellowstone Park, famous for its thermal geysers, is characterized by increased volcanic and seismic activity. What is this time bomb in the US Northwest? A supervolcano is not a cone-shaped formation with a vent, like ordinary volcanoes. In appearance, this is a lowland, called by volcanologists a caldera, which resembles a huge depression.

This unremarkable hollow is a giant volcano with an eruption area of ​​several thousand square kilometers. By the way, due to its gigantic size, scientists at first did not even recognize the caldera in the US Yellowstone Park. Satellite photos showed that the entire park is 3825 square kilometers and is a caldera measuring about 55 km by 72 km.

Outside, the Yellowstone Preserve is covered with a picturesque landscape, and inside this huge valley is filled with red-hot magma. For millennia, magma filled huge underground reservoirs, melting rock, becoming so dense that volcanic gases, which cause eruption in ordinary volcanoes, cannot pass through it. Therefore, a huge amount of molten magma presses from below on the surface of the Earth. This continues for hundreds of thousands of years until the abscess bursts and a terrible explosion occurs.

On the eve of the volcanic eruption on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, herds of elephants came out to the villages, who behaved very friendly and just stood aside. However, they are absolutely not aggressive towards people. Wild boars behaved similarly in the Philippines, which ran past the surrounding villages away from the site of the upcoming volcanic eruption.

Even amphibians (frogs) and reptiles (snakes) demonstrate a similar reaction to future earthquakes. Science cannot yet determine exactly what changes in the earth's crust affect animals, forcing them to leave the places of earthquakes and eruptions, but the fact of such behavior has been scientifically confirmed.

The last time the Yellowstone volcano erupted was about 640,000 years ago. If an explosion occurs, then, according to the vision of scientists, the picture will be worse than the description of the Apocalypse. Everything will begin with a sharp rise and overheating of the earth in Yellowstone Park. And when huge pressure breaks through the caldera, thousands of cubic kilometers of lava will pour out of the resulting vent, which will resemble a huge pillar of fire. The explosion will be accompanied powerful earthquake and lava flows, developing speeds of several hundred kilometers per hour.

The eruption will continue for several days, but people and animals will mostly die not from ash or lava, but due to suffocation and hydrogen sulfide poisoning. During this time, the air in the entire western United States will be poisoned so that a person can hold out for no more than 5-7 minutes. A thick layer of ash will cover almost the entire territory of the United States - from Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, which will be wiped off the face of the Earth, to Iowa and the Gulf of Mexico.

The ozone hole over the mainland will grow to such a size that the level of radiation will approach Chernobyl. All of North America will turn into scorched earth. seriously hurt and southern part Canada. Scientists do not deny that the Yellowstone giant will provoke the eruption of several hundred ordinary volcanoes around the world. At the same time, oceanic volcanic eruptions will generate many tsunamis that will flood the coasts and all island states. The long-term consequences will be no less terrible than the eruption itself. And if the main blow is taken by the States, then the whole world will feel the effect.

Thousands of cubic kilometers of ash thrown into the atmosphere will close sunlight The world will plunge into darkness. This will cause a sharp drop in temperature, for example, in Canada and Norway in a couple of days the thermometer will drop by 15-20oC. If the temperature drops by 21 degrees, as during last eruption supervolcano Toba, all territories up to the 50th parallel - Norway, Finland or Sweden - will turn into Antarctica.

will come" nuclear winter”, which will last for about four years. The incessant acid rain destroy all crops and crops, kill livestock, dooming the surviving people to starvation. The "billionaire" countries - India and China - will suffer the most from hunger. Here, up to 1.5 billion people will die from starvation in the coming months after the explosion. In total, every third inhabitant of the Earth will die in the first months of the cataclysm.

The only region that can survive is central part Eurasia. Most people, according to scientists, will survive in Siberia and the Eastern European part of Russia, located on earthquake-resistant platforms, remote from the epicenter of the explosion and protected from the tsunami.

EXPERT OPINION

Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Leading Researcher at IGEM RAS Anatoly KHRENOV:

- Any volcano is unpredictable, and not a single scientist and not a single seismograph can accurately predict when to expect an eruption and what strength. So the consequences of the explosion can be many times greater than the expected effect. The Yellowstone Giant will make trouble.

First of all, the volcanic eruption will cover the States on whose territory Yellowstone Park is located - Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. Power plants and other life support systems may fail - the US northwest will be isolated due to a failure in transport communication. And it's in best case. At its worst, the scale of the disaster is even hard to imagine...

A super eruption in Yellowstone will affect almost the entire territory of the United States. The first zone adjacent to the volcano will suffer from pyroclastic flows. This avalanche, consisting of hot gas and ash, propagating at the speed of sound, will destroy all life within a radius of 100 km. 10 thousand sq. km will turn into scorched earth. No one will survive in the pyroclastic zone.

The next zone is the entire United States, whose territory will be covered with ash. People won't be able to breathe. With a layer of ash of 15 cm, the load on the roofs will be so strong that the buildings will begin to fold like houses of cards. Hundreds of thousands of people will die either from suffocation or when buildings collapse. In a few days, the ash will spread throughout the United States and even take over Europe.

Published on 06.10.17 12:18

Yellowstone, the latest news for today: in the event of a volcanic eruption, scientists warn of a universal catastrophe.

Yellowstone volcano, latest news 2017: record underground points scare scientists

According to experts, in the territory of the national park there was record number earthquakes that cannot be recognized. For example, last September, 115 earthquakes were recorded in Yellowstone, and 78 of them were part of an ongoing swarm 10 kilometers north of the western part of the park.

"Since the beginning of the swarm on June 12, one earthquake has been recorded with a magnitude of 4.4, 12 in the magnitude 3 range and 185 in the magnitude 2 range," the service said in a statement.

Mike Poland, lead scientist at the Yellowstone Volcanic Observatory at the USGS, said: seismic activity near the geyser in the park is on the decline, but in general the tremors do not stop. The scientist stated that exact number earthquakes are difficult to determine, since tremors either appear in large numbers, or have too low a magnitude, due to which the instruments cannot recognize them.

“This is the work that we will do in the coming months, when we collect all the available data and begin to analyze them. At the end of September, stations at the University of Utah recorded 2475 earthquakes in the swarm. In terms of activity, the current swarm is close to the swarm of 1985, in which during Three months there were more than 3,000 localized seismic events," Poland said.

As he wrote, the Yellowstone volcano belongs to supervolcanoes. It is located in the US state of Wyoming. The dimensions of its basin are 55 by 72 kilometers, which is equal to about a third of the entire territory of the park and almost twice the area of ​​New York and Moscow.

In the event of a supervolcano eruption, magma, approaching the surface, accumulates in a huge underground reservoir. It melts nearby rocks and becomes even thicker, while the pressure continues to increase at this time.

The Yellowstone supervolcano is located above hot spot where the molten rock is closest to the surface. This giant has been worrying scientists for a long time, and they started talking about its danger back in April 2016, when a series of earthquakes swept across America, and on the night of October 3-4, 2017, black smoke poured from the most famous geyser of the volcano - the Old Faithful.

Animals in Yellowstone also behave strangely: frames of bison escaping from the park appear on the Web every now and then.

However, experts assure that this is due only to seasonal migration.

"The Yellowstone volcano in the USA is considered a hot spot on the Earth, like Hawaii with its Kilauea or Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland. Of course, they are very dangerous when they erupt, both because of their size and because of their power, since they will throw out millions of cubic meters of magma, yes and there will be a lot of ash. But we still do not have sufficient data to talk about the exact or at least approximate date of its eruption," Vasily Lavrushin, an employee of the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, shared his opinion.

Volcano Yellowstone 2017 VIDEO

Scientists estimate that the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano will lead to the death of at least 87,000 people.

What is he american supervolcano? Our mini-report with photos, videos and all appearances-passwords.

yellowstone national park, attracting tourists with its magical beauty, is increasingly mentioning the latest news on channels around the world. On camera, he fascinates and creates the illusion of unreality, but in life he causes a lot of controversy in scientific environment regarding the likelihood of a volcanic eruption.

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Where is Yellowstone Volcano located?

The reserve occupies vast territories exceeding 860,000 hectares in the states of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. On the map, Yellowstone (the translation of the name from English sounds like “yellow stone”) can be found next to the Rocky Mountains.

About 640 thousand years ago, a gigantic caldera formed in what is now the United States as a result of the eruption of the Yellowstone volcano. Gradually, a plateau appeared at this place, shrouded in steam, where geysers, hot springs and mud fountains beat out of the ground.

Among the North American Indians, legends about the “land of smoke and water” have long circulated, and in the second half of the 19th century, people began to go to this mysterious land. scientific expeditions. The result of the research was the founding of the first US national park in 1872. In the late seventies, it was included in the UNESCO heritage list.

Yellowstone Caldera. Possible eruption of the Yellowstone volcano

Recent earthquakes provoked a situation in which the supervolcano began to wake up, and today all the news is full of information about the threat global catastrophe. There is something to worry about, because the scale of it is really amazing.

The Yellowstone Caldera is 55 km wide and 72 km long. If a eruption will occur, scientists predict the onset of a "volcanic winter", the disappearance of part of North America in the ocean abyss and devastating tsunami that will cover Europe and Japan. "Passion" is also warmed up through TV screens. In 2009, directed by Roland Emmerich, the disaster film "2012" was shot, where, according to the plot, the end of the world, predicted by the Mayan tribe, came as a result of the eruption of the Yellowstone volcano.

Of course, the last - and maybe the first - word is always with scientists. However, a few years ago they argued that the explosion could occur no earlier than in 20,000 years, and now they are reconsidering their opinion.

In the light recent events there are often hypotheses about the likelihood of a catastrophe in the coming years. The assumptions are based on objective reasons:

• water temperature increased by 20 degrees,
• after a 100-year "hibernation" some geysers reminded of themselves,
• earthquakes in the caldera,
• animals began to leave the reserve,
• online webcams regularly capture black steam.

The American National Park is interesting for its flora and fauna. 1870 species of plants grow on its territory, 1700 of which you will not see anywhere else. 80% of forests are coniferous trees, and from hardwoods you can see aspen, birch and willow.

The reserve is home to about 60 species of mammals, including bison, black-tailed deer and wapiti, elk, bighorn goats, pronghorns, grizzly and baribal bears, Mackenzian wolves, coyotes, wolverines, lynxes and cougars. The population of Yellowstone bison is about 4,000 animals, and wild cats can be counted in units.

More than 300 species of birds nest in the park, including: American crane, pelican, bald eagle.

The fee for visiting Yellowstone is fixed - for one car and all passengers, a ticket for 7 days will cost $ 50 per car, it is valid for a year. As we understand, this amount also includes access to the territory of another park located 16 km from the volcano - Grand Teton.

Places in hotels from May to the end of September should be booked in advance (because this is the time of the tourist season).

Which hotels to stay?

From our experience, the most preferred hotels in Yellowstone – with the best value for money – are:

What you need to know before visiting the national park?

For the convenience of tourists, guidebooks are issued at the entrance to the territory, without which to navigate vast space just impossible. A 150 km asphalt bypass road has been laid around the park, marked trails and bike paths have been laid throughout the reserve.

Travel Tips:

• Yellowstone is very large, and it is worth giving it 2-3 full days;
• The official high season is May-September. Unofficially, in September the weather is already getting worse (we drove into the park on a cloudy autumn day, and 24 hours later we drove out in a blizzard);
• At the end of summer and autumn there is a possibility forest fires(but that won't stop the snow from falling). In December and January, access to some areas may be limited, some roads are blocked and allowed only with chains;
• A strict ban on hunting and mountaineering, fishing is possible with a license;
• Pets can only be walked on a leash at campsites, next to information centers and on roadsides;
• While in the park, grizzly bears are quite difficult to meet. We personally saw deer, elk and buffalo.

What to see in Yellowstone Park?

We painted our route under the video, and, in principle, it was not original: geysers → Grand Prismatic Spring → Old Faithful → Yellowstone Volcanic Lake → Upper and Lower Falls.

Top attractions in Yellowstone national park- geysers.

• The steamboat (Steamboat Geyser) is the largest and most unpredictable: at a time it can throw out up to 5,000 tons of boiling water with a frequency of four days to half a century.
• Excelsior, located in the center of a mountain lake: the fountain breaks out with a crash for 90 meters, shaking the ground.
• The Old Faithful geyser (Old Faithful) is the most “tourist” one; to take a photo against its background, it is enough to linger for a maximum of a couple of hours, and sometimes even 30 minutes is enough.

But geysers are far from all that can be seen in the park.

• In the center of the reserve is the mysterious Yellowstone Lake with black volcanic sand: ebb and flow here occur simultaneously, and the coastline changes every time, often resembling zigzags.
• There are 290 waterfalls throughout the territory. The Lower Falls are impressive, the height of which reaches 95 meters.
• "Martian" and extremely picturesque Grand Prismatic Spring with a bright orange border. The water in the spring changes shades from yellow to sky blue. Rainbow overflows differ in different time year: in summer they are orange-red, and in the cold season they are blue-green. This place impressed us the most, but, alas, all the beauty can only be seen from above. At the level human eyes- this is just a smoking something, and from a height - a miracle of the planet Earth.

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