I was the Executive Producer on this movie with the BBC EP. I am very proud of this production, especially since we took a huge risk and left out all the usual Hollywood must haves: no damn pets in danger; no pain in the ass love story; no muscled up hero saving everyone at the last minute; and no kids who hate their squabbling parents. That's a wrap 🎬!!!
This is an excellent production, and based on the science of the time it was fairly accurate. We do know that with today's technology the numbers are a bit different but still a great docu-movie. I watch it all the time. Most folks that have had negative things to say about it are so narrow minded and oblivious to how real the threat of this sleeping dragon is. They don't understand its true power. They also don't understand that roughly every 700,000 years does not mean exactly 700,000 years. That's just a rudimentary calculation based on 3 eruptions in 2.1 million years. 21÷3=7 but that doesn't mean that it can't happen at 650,000 or 800,000. But with all the current increases of earthquake and volcanic activity taking place, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's probably not as far away as what they want us to believe. But thank you all for a wonderful movie.
All these years later it's still the best movie about a geological mega-hazard. Sadly we are still waiting for one half as good about a comet/asteroid impact.
They played this movie on the shuttle back to the Tetons from Yellowstone XD It’s a really good movie, still holds up! Crazy movie to watch right after leaving the place though XD
Well let’s face it, it’s as the characters argued earlier in the movie about. We know Yellowstone will erupt again, we just don’t know when. So as far off as this is for a future prediction movie, it doesn’t change the fact Yellowstone WILL erupt one day.
Just started binge watching various documovies I loved as a kid and had to search for this one. So glad it's here! This and Super Comet After the Impact have always been among my favorites.
This was my very first "Disaster Movie", I remember loving it so much that I watched it all the time. This was released in 2005, so I'm not surprised that the facts aren't as accurate anymore. I had a nice conversation with USGS and asked whether or not we're overdue for a VEI7 or 8 eruption. The answer I got was this: Not really. Volcanoes don't work like earthquakes, where stress accumulates steadily and then is released in faulting events (even though the occurrence of these events is somewhat random...still, the concept of a "recurrence interval" is more valid for earthquakes than for eruptions). Instead, volcanic eruptions are more like floods -- they take place when the conditions are right, and that doesn't so much depend on timing as other factors. There can be 500-year floods in consecutive years, even though it might average 500 years between such events, if weather patterns converge in a way that were to permit such conditions. Eruptions (big and small) happen when there is a supply of magma and sufficient pressure to drive that magma to the surface. So it's hard for any volcano to really be "overdue." All that said, on "average," VEI8 eruptions occur once per 50,000-100,000 years. The last two were 26,500 (Tapuo, New Zealand) and 74,000 (Toba, Indonesia) years ago. VEI7 eruptions occur, on "average," once per 500-1000 years. The last two of those were in 1815 (Tambora, Indonesia, which barely makes the cut) and 1257 (Rinjani, Indonesia, which was the largest eruption to have occurred during the Holocene epoch). We don't think we're overdue for any of these eruptions, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be watching out for future signs of such activity around the world. Yellowstone gets a lot of attention in this regard, but it is far more likely that strong eruptions will happen elsewhere in the world.
@Robert Lee I'm not actually sure since I contacted them on the USGS Volcanoes FB page (I sort of watch their page like a hawk because I'm a volcano nerd). I was just being general about everything because it was 1) for an essay for an English class, and 2) I was extremely curious. So yeah, I didn't name specific volcanoes for that reason.
People are asking “is this real”. The volcano and extent of damage and effects are very real, while the methods of monitoring, technology and information on the magma chambers are not entirely accurate. The Yellowstone super volcano has two enormous magma chambers beneath the caldera, neither which are egg-shaped. After this film was produced, seismologists discovered the second chamber, making the volume of magma more than 5x what was previously predicted. We do now have fairly accurate models of the chambers and are able to map the pressure vents to the chambers. This caldera has erupted before in the past and it will inevitably erupt again provided Earth doesn’t go through extensive super cooling within its interior. When it erupts, anyone living within 200 miles miles of the caldera will perish instantly in either the pyroclastic flow or in the searing hot landslides, and flood zones surrounding it. Beyond that zone, anyone in mid to northwestern United States will be within the “raining hot ash zone” and will unfortunately perish unless they have a well-stocked, and well sealed off bunker which does not require air systems to have vents that lead to the exterior as the ash will choke the filter and all engines for generators, etc... Cooler raining ash will fall onto roughly 90% of the country, and will disable vehicles due to the choking of exhaust. further will depend on weather as much of the ash will be lifted into the atmosphere and will be carried over the oceans and across the globe, potentially blocking out the sun for anywhere from 2-10 years, dependent on many variables. Within just a month, effects will become apparent as plant life begins to wither and food quickly becomes scarce. Over the course of a year, the atmosphere will become exceptionally foggy, plant, animal and sea life will show clear signs of a global die off and due to the dwindling access to food and resources, a staggering number of humans could perish as well. Humanity has experienced severe population bottlenecks in the past but have gotten through it and will likely survive the volcanic winter; however, the genetic pool could undoubtedly suffer.
So... .movie is briliant in any way, but still senario presented is severe understatement - real effects on continental US alone would be far worse than even in movie "The Day After".
@JurassicHero 3 But what would those animals eat? Caribou are herbivores as are most fish in the oceans that polar bears eat. If the ash blankets out the sun for two years, as much as 10% of plant life dies, not to mention animals dying immediately. The longer that there's an ash blanket in the atmosphere, the more plant life we lose.
I have always enjoyed this documovie since it came out on the Discovery channel about 20 years ago. However, I have been looking for this on DVD and all I can find are DVD's that are BBC related and do not work on American DVD Players. Thank you sooooo much for sharing!!!!!
This movie is quite accurate as Yellowstone really is a Volcano. I drove by it a few weeks ago I took route 20 to West Yellowstone to 191 North up along the border of Idaho and Wyoming. So I was nowhere near the center of the park but I saw alot of dead pine trees along that route.
@@bluecollar58 No Pompeii was buried in ash; the shapes of people that resulted were created by pouring plaster into the body-shaped holes in the ash. Hercanulem (think I spelled that right) was destroyed by pyroclastic flow.
My mum was a geology teacher, and when I was growing up, she showed me this, and five-year old me thought it was both the coolest and most horrifying thing ever.
I recall many years ago telling a 30 year old about the consequences of Yellowstone exploding. She had never heard anything about it and afterwards had no sleep she said for a week.
This was always one of those guilty pleasure films for me. At the same time, it's a BBC docu-film blended with science fiction, which leaves a lot to be desired. What do you expect? Still, good vibes and throwbacks to my childhood in studying volcanoes for fun, and honestly, it's actually a satisfying watch to turn on in the background when I'm studying.
I'm a student on geology. I gotta say this is better than the likes of San Andreas or 2012. It may not have the same riveting plot and the graphics are a bit amateur, but I appreciate the realism so much more. Actually using real life legit scientific data that is actually true. I appreciate that more than a riveting film.
Thank you for this. I first rented this via Amazon [ah, happy days] and then bought it, watched it again, mislaid the disc so bought another one. Then found the first one. Now I've mislaid both, so very glad you posted it so I can watch again.
This is the only disaster movie I can appreciate, as it is at least somewhat scientifically accurate, unlike San Andreas and other Hollywood disaster films. And I'm saying this as a professional geologist which I am.
I find it stunning, that the science community says that we can't use the past 3 eruptions as a timeline, even though they clearly have one...and we are past that line...and the parks MAIN ATTRACTION is called "Old Faithful" but I digress........
With that ideology we should also preemptively give tickets biased on if you have had more then 1. I’d sure hope not cuz shit can change, accidents and random events happen
At the end of the movie when Yellowstone stopped eurupting people seemed to be happy that the euruption stopped but seemed to be oblivious to the 10 year ice age that would follow and the 1000 year global cooling period
Well, look at it this way; once it stopped erupting, then rescue, relief and recovery could start, no matter how long that takes. It’s like waiting for a severe hurricane to end; sure, there will still be massively flooded area, mass destruction, and all the horror that comes with that for a long time afterwards. But now that the hurricane has ended, you can actually _do_ something about it. And that alone brings great relief.
This is my 4th time watching this movie. I love it. Movies are made to entertain and make money. You can't believe movies and only half believe documentaries. You have to google, wiki. Read, study, talk to people and then make up your own mind. Enjoy the movie
I like this movie. This is the 5th time I've watched it. For some reason I have to watch it every few months. It's crazy cause one day it will happen, Yellowstone will erupt. Will it be in our lifetime ? I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens. If it does erupt just hope it's not a V.E.I. 8 cause then the whole world is screwed.
Yes, of course it will go off at some point. But the probability of an eruption in our lifetime is microscopic. However it will happen in someone's lifetime, and it might just as well be in ours.
Yellowstone IRL is a duel chamber system 35,000-50,000 cubic km of melt And a lower chamber of 75,000-200,000 cubic km of melt And a variance cuz rock heats and cools But has a full capacity of roughly 250,000 cubic km But again No idea to tell how, where or when a vast quantity will want to escape
...fun...brings back memories of shooting this film many moons ago...came up on my feed today cuz I was following some deets about the Tonga eruption, which is a place I was fortunate enough to kayak also many moons ago... thanks for the upload Jazz 👍🙏
Gene Wiley many many many OMGharmonic tremors going on there. Most notably Norris, Maple. Good luck to you and yours. I worry that this may actually be "something". There is also a fissure that is opened in the creek bed in Palisades.
I remember when it first came our in 2005, watched it on the imax screen at the science museum. It was awesome, then found ir and rewatched it later with San andreas 2012 with the rock. Interesting tidbits in both.
uhm... i watched this here upload first like 6 years ago. Shure its a reupload, yet thats only normal, still the title is the same "Supervolcano". If google or rather microfail refuses to find this here then next time just write "Docudrama Supervolcano". should still work fine
Great docu-drama! I really enjoyed it. I think Michael Riley (the guy who plays Rick Lieberman) is a great actor and would like to see him in many more things. I didn’t realise until recently that he plays the cop after John Wayne Gacy in the film, “To catch a killer.” I remember thinking what a great actor he was in that. Thanks for uploading!
@@gary9432 "The new idea developed by geologists at Imperial and Bristol is that molten rock forms within largely crystalline hot rocks, spending most of its time in little pores within the rock rather than in large magma chambers. However, the rock melt is slowly squeezed out to form pools of melt, which can then erupt or form ephemeral magma chambers." You didn't even read the description of the paper you're linking, did you? It is interesting, though.
Yellowstone has 2 chambers, the one in the movie is the upper smaller chamber. And the lower connects to the heart of the world, Yellowstone is capable of ripping the world apart by opening the ring of Fire. Setting all volcanos off There wouldn’t be any pressure left underneath our feet and the world would cave in. Plus all the volcano damage/effects
Cuz most of these disasters could t happen But This movie wasent just biased on real life, it’s biased on incomplete data of the magma chamber. The chamber is bigger then the movie implies. . . . . Almost twice as big. And 2 of them. This could happen. And it could be worse 🤦♂️ Unlike most movies, where it couldn’t happen and if it did I couldn’t be as bad as the movie shows
Swarms and even a harmonic tremor wouldnt be the main issue We need to keep an eye on surface pressure, chambers pressures, and then depth of melt Yellowstone has the pressure to cause a super eruption now, but no means of releasing all that consistently There is to much earth, on top of the pressure to have anything happen But if the magma rises enough, or the surface melts or moves away to much The pressure would pop the bubble Harmonic tremor or not, where is it gonna escape? In the movie a pod of magma rose up and melted a lot of earth, and then a harmonic tremor could do its stuff Or like the one retarded caller "can we drill down and siphon the magma?" No That would cause a lack of surface pressure you twit XD And magma melts rock and dirt You wanna move the magma where? XD Or pump water in? Well, look up *Laze* its a hazy fog made when lava/magma contacts water and flash boils Yellowstones magma chamber (it it didnt pop from the water pressure) would release a Laze thick enough to coat the earth For a week Yay Hydrofluoric acid baths for a week if we are lucky, and not in America
My friend asked my if I knew about Yellowstone and I said yes, I’d been a few times since I live in America. She automatically freaked out and told me about a volcano under the park; I didn’t believe her, but she wants me to watch this to prove her point so that’s exactly what I’m doing now.
@@vexile12 not in mass. If you see hundreds of bears, wolves, deer, elk, birds, etc etc etc all fleeing at the same time In mass migrations Basically something is clearly happening that we can’t sense
One of the greatest natural disaster movies ever! ❤❤ Turns out Kenneth was right. Quite genius how they made this movie. They took a kind of documentary and combined it with a natural disaster movie. Made it very very real. Kudos!
@@bearmama8187 I grew up right next door to Yellowstone (west yellowstone) park in Montana. The only reason people are sounding alarm bells now is because all we do today is say the world is ending because of this and because of that and my favorite. Its "eminent"! All of them are pretty terrifying and could happen at any time indeed. That's true. What's going on there is pretty normal routine stuff and I'm in my fifties today. We have seen some serious activity back in the 80's and we just basically said if it goes it goes and then we'll pick up the pieces after. Today people are so fatalistically charged. If your looking for death your going to find it if you look hard enough. If the super volcano in Wyoming blows its top it isn't the end of the world. That just plain fear mongering nonsense and quite absurd. This specific caldera has been erupting and moving northeast wards for millions of year going off about every 100,000 years or so. You can follow its track just like the Hawaiian normal one too. When you look closely there hasn't been a entire emptying of the entire cavity ever. Not one time. Some big indeed but most pretty low key. There are 12 "active" super volcano's on earth and 8 dormant and countless extinct that could fire up unexpectedly too. The Yellowstone Volcano caldera is ranked 4th. Not one time has a super volcano completely emptied all at once in one spectacular blow out that ends all life. Not once. Its been recently found that the biggest super volcano that ever went off was on the island of Thera- Minoan eruption in the Aegean Sea. It was massive. It went off around 1600 BCE. The shock wave went around the world ten times. "Still" the population had time to evacuate it says in ancient historical documents. The ash cloud moderately blanketed the immediate lowest southern part of Asia around the med and the northern most of Africa. The eruption was so massive that the ash cloud ejection was thrown in to the thermosphere (nearly outer space) so it was such a long term slight peppering of ash that fell back to earth throughout time that it was barely notable. Most super volcano will do the same. The Island of Thera is still there too actually it just is more like an atoll now. Take a look. If you want to live you lifetime contemplating your doom your not living it today instead. Our life on this planet is a gift and very, very fragile. Finite. Volcanically we live on a microscopic sliver of crust flouting on a massive ocean of death made of magma. There is tons of ways to die on this planet globally. Unfortunately, most all of them are man made. So just relax.
@@bearmama8187 Because it is and "active" volcano, where some of the super volcanos are simmering others are pretty active "geo thermally" like yellowstone. Ebb and flow. Ebb and flow. Believe it or not we have a significantly great amount of cinder cone and lava dome that are constantly belching out gas, ash, magma and all other kinds of truly nasty stuff that will kill you deader then Lincoln. Whereas composite and shield not so much. We have a few even in Antarctica too. Alaska has the most concentrations of volcano's on the planet. Mostly along its long stretch of islands.
@@bearmama8187 It's fun indeed. It's an "active" volcano. Whereas the bulk of super volcanos simmer, yellowstone on the other hand is active geo thermally. There are a ton of them super and no so much. Mud volcano's are interesting and sulfur as well. Sulfur volcano flows are deep florescent blue at night. Spectacular really. But ya, yellowstone grumbles constantly. I always thought is was extremely fool hardy to place a national park on top of the 4th biggest super volcano on earth but that's humans for ya. There are a grand amount of volcanos that are highly active. Cinder cone and lava dome remain active constantly and are the most common but by contrast composite and shield volcano's are pretty quiet until they blow their top and grab everybody's attention. Fun factoid- even Antarctica has a few active volcano's. Alaska actually has the greatest concentrations of volcanos on the planet peppered along its island chain off the Bering Sea. Most are dormant but surprisingly enough some have been waking up lately. Indonesia is a absolutely terrifying place to live. It has earth quakes that boggle the mind and volcanos that threaten the population constantly yet they go with the flow. I would never live there. Yikes! There is a volcano in Iceland has been going off like gang busters. California is poised to have an earth of biblical end times proportions lately. Even the population knows something is coming down the pipe in California because it is so quiet lately and that's making them nervous. They are leaving in masse. I am god fearing as well ma'am and I don't think, I know times up. Its on. It could literally happen at any time on earth and we just don't have mych tine left fir the non faithful. It's gonna be riugh and not a lot of people are goung to nake it. "Many will be called, few will be chosen". The narrow path as it is stated. It clearly says that God chose the specific human we didn't chose him. That really gives me pause when the bible says that. Jesus absolutely detests luke warm neither hot nor cold today fake Christian. He says they are going to get it the worst because nobody including the son of the creator likes a phoney bologny person. Especially the proclaimed god fearing. I have a few theories how it will all go down yet I personally think we are (the faithful) not on earth as we know it any longer. Something very curious happened to around 2014 and it was so striking that I thought it was the rapture. Many religious or not had felt it. Some are calling it the "knowing" and the "turning". I even put it on the calendar because it was so incredible but mysteriously it vanished- the calendar that is. I think we left, stepped outside of normal reality, dimensionally, heavenly pathways of sorts or something along those and we are somewhere awaiting fir the second coming to occur actually. We just don't know it. It never once says in scripture that we will be aware of the rapture beyond conjecture by US in fact but it never specifically says it we will. It only says what will happen to us. It just says we will rise and have to wait around until we come back with Christ fir the final conflict. Why would we know anyways huh?. What point would be in that. I think we are viewing the world from a perspective as if we are within the bs and participating but in reality we are actually not. Then all of the sudden we will become aware then its time. That makes more sense to me. If we knew it wouldn't be constructive and even after the rapture Christ would still be having a look at us while we wait unbeknownst just to make sure we are on the same page with him. I could get into it but that's just a theory of mine after the last around seven years. Something extremely supernatural happened to me back in 2011 to that was a stagging ground fir something amazing and it changed everything for me at least. One way or another sister in Christ it's going to be something else and you know what really cool mama bear. We will met on the other side. So see you there and walk with him in all things. Amen. 🕊😇👍
@@bearmama8187 Sorry about the spelling and typos. My cats were all over me. They wanted to be fed. Hope I still made sense. Anyways ya. Its pretty crazy out there. I don't even watch the news any longer. Haven't sense about a year ago. Just one pod cast a day and call it good. Its just so unhealthy, toxic really. Another thing. As a career military man, Christ and his heavenly hosts coming back on horse back, in armor, swords, bows and shields is utterly absurd. Give me a break. 🙄 Seriously people? Most Christians today have zero common sense. How on earth is Christ going to lay waste to the entire earths military's in a blink of an eye with that? That's just silly and what even sillier is that most Christians today totally believe that. Ugh! 🤔 Unbelievable.......... Its going to be superior technologies, supernatural powers and spiritual grace that will be beyond human comprehension if it goes down like that. It will "literally" appear like an alien invasion type deal. However, personally I don't think it will be any of that until maybe later after all is said and done. It will be a cascading amount of terrifying multiple waves of natural "Act of God" disasters. One after the other or simultaneously biblical natural disasters. Just like Moses in Egypt. Kinda hard to fight a cluster of tornados, ten hurricanes in a role, earth quakes that are beyond measure, super volcanos, clouds of locusts that blot out the sun to night, floods, comet wormwood, tsunami, etc. Even our us military can't fight any of that. How are you going to nuke a hurricane the size of the eastern seaboard. You can't. Destroy entire area's without a clue by non believers that it's actually God- Christ and his angels doing it. Its brilliant actually. Now "THAT" is the brilliance of a God. After all he created the earth naturally why wouldn't he destroy parts of it the same way huh?! That makes more sense to me. That's why they call these things acts of God because you can't fight it. You just have to hunker down and hope you live through it. Completely "natural disaster"- Christ coming back invasion type deal. Sits from orbit presumably possibly orchestrating the entire event/s. All the while we wouldn't even know that any of it was a superior intelligently designed incursion from on high. Staggering creativity of how to do it with perfection. Natural act of God mega disasters more then in all of human history. That's a God like operation if you ask me ma'am. Anything else the planet will band together and fight tooth and nail and if we lose (which we would) we would blow ourselves up to a nuclear lifeless dirt ball. Natural is the only way to go. If I was Christ that's how I would do it. Ok, got to start my day. It was great chatting with you this morning mama bear. See you on the other side. Blessings. 👌🕊😉
I got stuck in chair. not scary but tense and full of reality!, you never know it does mean how important is to have a bag with some emergency kits with can food and water ready for the run, any emergency, anywhere..!!! great movie!! you never know when reality can strike !!!!!!
Thanks for uploading this. I have the DVD - in fact I bought it twice because I couldn't find the first one - of course, as soon as the second one arrived I found the first one! I now can't find either of them, so glad to be able to see it here. For the first few times watching, i didn't know it was a two-parter; when the credits came up i clicked the Menu button; it was only when i clicked "next chapter" to also take me back to the menu that I found that there was a part two. durr. They could have put both parts on the damn menu. ps the bonus documentaries on the DVD are also very much worth watching; they break down the disaster step by step and consult with FEMA on what could be done. pps. Notice that this wasn't made by an American broadcaster? Good old BBC/ Wonder what an American-made version would have looked like.
Animal Loverjulian the ash, the pyroclastic surge, the massive climate change. So many things can just screw up everything. That’s why volcanoes are so devastating. They affect everything and everyone when they erupt with enough force.
@@animalloverjulian8243 because it’ll basically plunge us into another ice age. If you survive the explosion, you’ll eventually die from either the elements or starvation.
Best case It erupts for a week. Pushing the state of Washington in magma to the surface, enough carbon dioxide to power the worlds power grid for a month. And cover half of America in ash almost a foot deep
Worse case super eruption It goes for a year. No joke 1 whole year of a constant eruption, the world would be coated in a foot of ash and thicker in America. The sun would be blocked out in a week and all life would end inside 6months without underground farms
The best place to be Would be on top of it XD Hotaru would have to wait to be fucked XD The camper is already dead, see pitty the living said the lord XD
I've known about this movie for 10 years because my science teacher showed all of us this back in 2007, two years after it came out in select countries (2005).
This movie shows several noteworthy ideas at once: The Schrodinger nature of the future: you cannot know until you see it. The nature of knowledge: There is always a lot more that you need to know, than you already do know. The truth is not always informative; It depends on understanding enough to use the truth beneficially. The wisdom of crowds is unreliable: Beans in a jar, & trustworthy elections, vs lynch mobs, rioters, arbitrage traders, & pedestrian crowds on an unstable bridge. What I would have done: Considering that we live somewhere with respect to the source of the non-preventable event, and what, if anything, I can do to cope with the various severities possible; Plan for each, including the one in which there is nothing I can do to survive. Put as much effort as appropriate, into mitigating the consequence of those various severities: 1 Prepare to help those more affected. 2 Prepare to protect/avoid as much as practical, against the probable intermediate severities. 3 Live mindfully that tomorrow has never been certain, but death is. 4 The only thing that matters, is every moment you live, and every moment you remember.
I remember seeing this on TV when it first aired on Discovery Channel. IMO this is one of the better done disaster movies. I've even studied some geology and this one the science fits better then most earthquake and volcano movies.
It was first aired on BBC 2005 but once they realized the impilcations of it, they wanted to get ir out on a global viewing platform thus discovery picked it up. This must have been made right after or during the news reported on the uplift at the lake below the geyser basin back in 2004, started in 1997 but whole area did this ground uplifted after 1980s. 2010 March was when the real show began, ah remember seeing it as everyone else was concentrating on thw st Patrick's day parade. Good thing I did research and report on that uplift in 2004, otherwise my Grandma and mom wouldnt have known to wake me up for that event or know what was really going on. Yellowstone showed its lid, the lake's north side ballooned and all the water was sloching over the south side. Fault cracks were opening all around yellowstone and the ground rose a few feet up. It looked like a ground water tension bubble since the ground was saturated big time but the rock looked like a plate on top of a dirt bubble. It all occurred in a few hour time frame, it started either around 12pm-1pm but I'm leaning to 1 pm, ended by 4 pm. Ah the news caster afterward, since all were probably watching the parade and as they winded down, the scramble to cover up everything as a fracking occurrence as it all deflated, ah. Found out later on Mary G's channel, that a rift formed from it and was doing seafloor spreading there. That was what happened to kept it from erupting but it was a fine line. Man NASA was so freaked out, wantinf to drain the lake due to hydrothermal explosion scare. Probably why their keeping and eye on the gyeser basin, which also inflated and deflated then but is back on the uptick and was said by an article or two to be the area to watch since the rift cut off that route for the magma to escape. But they did their homework for it.
@@razorransom1795 I think the hardest thing for people to wrap their minds around with a thing like Yellowstone is the time scale of it. Most people are used to thinking in terms of minutes, hours, days, years. Maybe decades or centuries if you're talking about human history. When you get into Geology, you're going into a while other time scale where millennia are the small time scale and most things are measured in millions of years some even into the billions. Yellowstone's been erupting on average every 700,000 or so years for the last couple of million years or so. So if it's winding itself up for an eruption, that could easily be a process of centuries or even millennia. We could see it winding up for an eruption and just think it's "normal" because that's all we've ever seen of it. Or this activity could just be it's normal behavior and no sign at all of an eruption on it's way. Even if it is the warning signs of an upcoming eruption, when is it coming? Days? Weeks? Years? Centuries? Longer? we just don't know enough about the scale of a volcano like Yellowstone to know for sure.
@@razorransom1795 One thing is certain though, the year Yellowstone finally does blow up for real, that year will make 2020 look like rainbows and puppies for those who'll need to survive the aftermath. and there's several other volcanoes of similar scale as well, some of which have more powerful eruptions then Yellowstone in their volcanic history.
@@Seriously_Unserious true but they do whine up a bit, pending where the weak spot for magma and gases release occurs and the state of the caldera from speed of eruption if it implodes or not is the main issue. Although it was close in March 2010 which aftermath was that lake rift spreading result. Next time keep an eye out on the geyeser basin. But from my research and experience with Marian visions and prophecies, I'm not expecting it to go full big one till 30 to 40 years after campi fregerii does it's eruption. Small to medium with tons of gases being released is what I expect from it this go around with the faults.
@@Seriously_Unserious yeah the ones in indonesia like toba and Tambora as well as the equavelent in Anartica Marie byrd basin. But in thinking there is more to the Yellowstone feeder plume and chambers than what specialists are saying. It may extend past sname plain river into north California a bit, so the California part may erupt with the faults sucking the land under from a similar event that occured to the Himalayas in 2015/16, thus releasing pressure and calming it down until the main event later on. You know I think many civilizations think some major geo natural disasters are impossible for their area till it occurs. I'm thinking the alatnians had that view and so did Sodom and Gomorrah (note fire bombs raining down could be from a super volcano as well and it was on top of one).
My older brother & I many years back were talking about the inconveniences of a Yellowstone eruption and I quoted this movies line on the odds of "a plane crashing in your backyard". He remarked that years before I was born, he had a dream of a Boeing 707 crash landing in the field across from our farm!
This film reminds me of the pandemic going on. The government officials are more concerned about tax revenues than human life. Greedy lying politicians who only care about their on special interest.
Bob Tinfoil implies we are conspiracy theorist, but we all know the governments of the world lie to us and steal from us behind the guise of “for the better of people or society”
Yeah! the way I see it, lightning don't strike the same place twice. You can only use and abuse the people for so long until they start declaring in unicense "NO MORE CRAP!!!!!!!!"
@@bobthebomb1596 I don't think there are parallels between this and Covid 19. The caldera is real. It's factual. Whether it blows or not is the question. Maybe think for yourself instead of labeling others.
the scary thing about this is, though Yellowstone is the most famous, America is actually home to at least 3 supervolcanoes...and all of them are dormant/semi-active...
@@patricklenigan4309 thats nothing... you got one somewhere between australia and thailand ''dont recall the nation name'' that puts yellowstone to shame...and is 'breathing' just like yellowstone is.. most continents have several ones on them ,I guess its simply the fact if thers not fault line ...sometimes the pressure built so much it 'carved' a extra hole and made another super vulcano ..sort of makes you pause a moment about how much thermal and pressure energy thats interacting under the surface considering how many of them thats breathing ..or worse , the ones in italy/mediteranian have not just been breathing but outright rumbling or i nthe land ones case...looking like there might be a risk of so much pressure building its starting to 'drag' the ocean floor up onto land ^^ gota love natural disaster movies...so often then reduce how severe a real 'world killer' disaster would be.
@@patricklenigan4309 that sounds familiar ye I guess I am thinking on that one. And indeed..frightening and awe inspiring The amount of energy surging under the crust we walk on are indeed something that in the wake of the industrial age not been given the proper respect it desserves , have you read about the mideteranian super vulcanos ? mighty restless ones those aswell apparently.
Man, I had this pirated on VHS as a kid, recorded from TV. I've probably watched it a couple dozen times then. I used to love it so much. Hell, I still do. The nostalgia is real.
I remember watching it on my school in centralia high school plant science 2 years ago and I am glad to be able to get to see the all movie show in the video!!!!!💛
i don't think many people think about this, but during an emergency everyone is leaving the city, not going in, so that means in a life or death situation, you can drive on the wrong side of the road to bypass the complete standstills on the highways.
Really like this movie! Some of the science is off but the main points are pretty accurate. A supervalcano would effect the entire worlds weather for years afterwards. Great place to visit though.☺
Yellowstone is the super-volcano that gets most of the attention but there are two more in North America alone - Long Valley especially is very active with geothermal and degassing in the form of carbon dioxide coming out of the ground - and others around the world with the one causing the most concern because of its ongoing seismic crisis and uplift being Campe Flagrei in Europe.
😂😂😂🤦♂️ Least of your worries Seriously. Food and air would be your main concern in America And the global economy would dive harder then a missile from low earth orbit. Cuz America is the worlds bitch
This would make Mount Saint Helens look like a fire cracker. I’ve been to Mount Saint Helens and it’s pretty unbelievable that she blew off 1200 feet! It’s an amazing place to visit. Unfortunately, I have not been able to go to Yellowstone. I would love to visit that.
I've been to Yellowstone... It's surreal..... The degassing... The hot springs, boiling mud pots, the geysers.....exposed obsidian along cliffs.... Just breathtaking and stunning
A super option would make Mount Saint Helens look comparatively small, but, a super eruption isn’t going to happen. Remember, this movie is just that… A movie. They do interweave some actual useful science into the flight, but this isn’t reality.
@@SunflowerSocialist oh it will happen...just not tomorrow but.... Eventually. . We just don't know when. Look up geologist Nick Zerinski. He talks about the supervolcano history of the Pacific North West.
@@RedisFun2 it could, but it’s unlikely. There is evidence to suggest the caldera system is shutting down, and given only about 5-15% of the rhyolite magma chamber is even molten (the remainder is solid, but very very hot) it’s unlikely that there even would be enough magma to feed an eruption. And the most recent eruption was a lava flow 70,000 years ago, so if it were to erupt again that is a far more probably scenario than a super eruption.
Am I the only one who watched this for entertainment? (I mean like purposly watching it to learn something) I was also just casually going through Netflix the other day to find this is in my recommended
Emma Coxhill I'm here because it's a movie I watched many years ago and found fascinating. But this is the first time I've seen it since then. To buy it on Amazon was like $50
Because it's closer to a documentary in style it has a realism you don't find in Holywood disaster movies. I know the odds of this actually happening are slim, but heaven help us all if it does.
It will happen someday, only time will tell if it happens anytime soon, but as bad as this looks, this isn’t the most devastating kind of volcanic eruption, that honor goes to flood basalts
Don't worry, it won't happen. Unlikely incredibly nonetheless the geysers were formed in such a way, quite a lot of magma in the chamber is now solidified and even more liquid lava is being cooled because of the conditions for the heat and gas escaping. The hotspot will produce eruptions in future, but not in the current Yellowstone caldera.
Such a greatly produced movie for Discovery. I know this film/doc is outdated on info about Yellowstone, but damn its scary that this could end our run here on Earth. I'd love to see a modern day one with newer information such as the discovery of the magma chamber being bigger than previously thought.
I always heard that there'll be a chain of disasters 1. Killer asteroid 2. Huge 13.5 earthquake 3. Yellowstone. and long valley 4. Hypercane. 5. New Ice Age. 6. Monster floods Result Earth practically resets it's self
thx for uploaqding this was watching this at school yesterday and wanted to see the rest of it as school (australian *act* school holidays) ended today thx free hugs*hugs* xD
