Yellowstone Caldera

Uh-huh. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! goes the geyser of the Yellowstone Park as it shoots up again.Have you ever been to Yellowstone Park well you should they have amazing features in this wonderful park. They have wonderful creatures and amazing things to see when you go on the trail or a hike. You would enjoy Yellowstone Park but maybe there are some things you might not like about the park. Have you ever wonder what happens under the ground at the Yellowstone park well, I have a secret to tell you. There is a super volcano under ground at Yellowstone park this volcano we recently discovered. Hank Hesler park geologist say” Public reaction has been very positive because people want to learn more.” I agree with scientist that when it erupts that it…

avoid or divert. All we would be able to do is brace ourselves and hope for the best. What if one day we woke up and had to prepare for a volcanic eruption? Not just an eruption, but a super volcanic eruption. There is a super volcano here in the U.S. and is alive and well that lies beneath Yellowstone National Park. This super volcano has the capacity of sending our nation back to the stone age and there is not much we can do about it, except hope and pray that we never experience the aftermath…

Yellowstone Supervolcano: Case Study WHAT IS IT? The term “supervolcano” stands for an eruption of magnitude 8 on the Volcano Explosivity Index, indicating an eruption of more than 1,000 cubic kilometres (250 cubic miles) of magma. Yellowstone has had at least three past eruptions: The three being, 2.1 million years ago, 1.2 million years ago and 640,000 years ago, were about 2,500 times larger than the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington State. WHERE IS IT? The supervolcano…

people have heard of Yellowstone National Park but not everyone knows how strange yet spectacular the caldera actually is. Yellowstone is a supervolcano and the park sits on top of a massive crater called a caldera. According to a NOVA documentary, the caldera is large enough to hold the city of LA and the magma chamber encompasses half of the park above it and extends almost 5 miles deep (Adah, 2016). This makes Yellowstone’s magma chamber the largest known on Earth. Since Yellowstone is a…

A single eruption at Yellowstone National Park could kill as many as 90,000 people. Though many people think it will not erupt, there is a supervolcano underneath yellowstone. Yellowstone is the first national park that is home to a super volcano. There is lots of wildlife like grizzly bears, wolves, elk, and herds of bison. These make Yellowstone a popular tourist attraction. If this supervolcano erupts it could destroy the wildlife and have a giant impact on the united states. Scientist more…

Located on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, Mount Tambora is in the province of West Nusa Tenggara. The eruption of Mount Tambora on April 10, 1815 marked the most powerful eruption of a volcano in the past 500 years thats has struck Indonesia. The creation and eruption of Mount Tambora can be contributed to the interaction between the Indo-Australian and Eurasian plate. The plate with higher density subducts under the plate with lower density. As the plate goes under, it melts and forms a…

Hawaii has recorder statistics on the Kilauea volcano and has been recorder the number of eruption. It was recorded that “fifty-seven eruptions and intrusions occurred at Kilauea between 1960 and 1983, after which the volcano has been in a state of virtually continuous eruption (Bell, Kilburn, 2012).” These earthquakes were mostly predicted by earthquakes, but this is not necessary the main reason for an eruption. When these eruptions occurred most of the magma was transported through rift…

The explosion caused an earthquake and tsunami because of the pyroclastic flows and collapse of the caldera. These other devastations caused flooding and disaster on several of the other Indonesian islands. The death toll was sky high and as well as the largest death count recorded by a volcano, the ash filled the skies and killed all the vegetation and eatable crops resulting in more death by disease and starvation. The death toll reached at least 71000; 11000- 12000 were killed directly by the…

Krakatoa 1) The eruption of Krakatoa happened in August 27, 1883 and was located in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra, Indonesia. The different time that Krakatoa erupted were at 5:30 am, 6:42 am, 8:20 am and 10:02 am local time. The island that it was located on was much bigger but the eruption destroyed most of the island itself. The first image bellow shows how much of the island was destroyed and how much is now left. 2) Krakatoa was formed when the Krakatau edifice around 416…

On August 26, 1883, a catastrophic natural disaster happened that affected the lives of people near and far. The volcano, Krakatoa, erupted leaving a great deal of devastation in its wake. Krakatoa is a volcanic island located in the Sunda Strait along the Indonesian Island Arc. The island along with two others were remains of an earlier eruption from two hundred years before. Krakatoa Island had three large hill-like or mountain shaped volcanic cones named Rakata, Danan, and Perboewatan. Before…