The colossal consequences of supervolcanoes - Alex Gendler 

USA: haha he wants to compare volcanoes huh? Check out our extinction level catastrophe.

Greenland: AMETEURS

USA may win in that single catastrophe level, but if we're talking about size Indonesia has >3500 km2 Lake Toba Caldera, which had the largest known eruption on earth in at least the last million years. Also, Indonesia is a country with the most historically "active" volcanoes in the world, mostly located in the 3,000 km stretch of the Sunda Volcanic Arc, causing many fatalities and damages for the country.... eh actually that's not something to be proud of

@@Lut28 r/woosh

@@peterchung2262 you're not even a redditor, clown

Swaggersouls:am I a joke to you?

Name's Addison Anderson.

I felt like sleeping hearing his voice

To much cigarettes

ikr, is it wrong to have a crush on his voice? 😳

lokz

+Beth Dela Cruz lolz*

Anime Fan haha me too

Anime Fan ok let's just say that is gross

It's the Earth busting a nut.

Shawn Ravenfire

It seems beautiful if tou don't get to live there

Darkness had no need for aid from them. She was the universe. Yeah, have to agree.

Whereas Mary Shelley is said to have written Frankenstein in a similar volcanic winter.

This has a whole new meaning now

Im also from indonesia but i live in jarkata

Don't you mean Futurama?

Now that's what I call SICENCE!!!

Can't really cancel out a mass extinction event with another.

@@CallMeBeautifulRacoon Global warming isn't a mass extinction event. The only one driving that is more just cutting down trees, mass hunting - and the destruction of biomes. If it was just the accelerated global warming - jesus, most of the species around today went through the last hot period just fine; it may have been several 10s of thousands of years ago, but that is still nothing in evolutionary terms. In fact, it did get even hotter than it did now, with most of these now killed off species living through it. I don't want you to overcorrect, and blame other human caused issues just on our c02 issue. So in this case, one might, because one isn't a mass extinction event. That being said, no - it would hasten it. At first, it would be severe cold that lingers for a years, maybe even a little bit past a decade. But in the end, that was just more a massive dump of more greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, so when it returns to normal, it has even more heating...

@@adrianbundy3249 agreed.

oh wow \O_O/

JustABeaver7 Umm actually The Scream was inspired by 1883 Krakatoa eruption, not 1816 Tambora eruption. Still from Indonesia too tho

It was Turner's sunsets that Tambora inspired, as the volcanic ash caused vivid sunsets in the months after the explosion. As IzzyCrown says, The Scream was inspired by Krakatoa in 1883.

scottishastronomer Turner one was also by Krakatoa

HOW DID YOU KNOW I TALKED ABOUT THAT IN ART TODAY OMG

Indonesia is such a trouble for the world, i mean toba supervolcano, mount tambora and mount krakatoa lol

Yeah, we have some big ass natural atomic bomb and we don't proud of it lol

I know.

Fak i live there

that is really sad :(

genius is here!!!

Idk😏

The floor is lava

Cool girl!😏

You probably heard a lot of false info about Yellowstone... Most likely it's eruption would be smaller than tambora, it would be more like a boiling pot blowing it's lid-venting at the edges of the caldera, but not blowing all that land into the air. Most the land would settle back down and resume being a lid. A few big burps but then back to normal...unlike tambora blowing up the entire mountain then vented all it's magma. Yellowstone also has a huge magma chamber like plume volcanoes (hawaiin islands), while subduction volcanoes(Tambora, Krakatoa) are basically building their chambers out of the rock under pressure. Krakatoa and Tambora were from the same subduction zone.

@@cjp1599 glad to still be learning about this after all these years. Thanks my guy

2020!

Got here right from that volcano.

We have one in New Zealand called Lake Taupo, even thought it's still an active super volcano and was the biggest eruption in 70,00 years and covered an island 1000km away in 18cm of ash and 200 meters in the surrounding area

mt. Vesuvius is another sort-of supervolcano in the same area. There's nowhere to run.

here in the Philippines, we have lake taal... though in the middle of the lake, you could see its smaller and cuter version of itself, the taal volcano

well we could all agree that super volcanoes and calderas are defenitely scary

u dont need to be a fuckin nerd to know about yellowstone mate....

RealCraft YA! You get em Steve Irwin!

RealcraftIV don't be a poopiesnoot

I think that's funny

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Dovydas Levanavičius Australia would be dead too

@@user-zz8nt4tk4w "But they'll be dead soon..." (mumbles) "Fucken kangaroos..."

Singapore: eh, the surrounding countries will be our meat shield.

India: We have cute Volcano Islands that are inhabitable. Fortunately they are inactive and harmless (yet).

@@user-zz8nt4tk4w At least there'll be no more emus.

comprehensive Anthony

Same goes for me.

The same goes for me.

are you a scienctest?

Ummm Tambora is a super volcano...1816 just wasn't a super eruption..it has exploded more then just the one time...He didn't call it a super eruption only that Tambora is a super volcano.

guidoheuts dude its a super volcano but the eruption it self wasnt

Every supervolcano is a caldera....tamboura is not a caldera and not a supervolcano!!!!!!!

He meant super volcano and not super eruption. Their still a difference.

Are you sure of that? I never knew that before and after your comment, I went to Google it and found some different answer.

Yellowstone Caldera, which is overdue: I AM HUNDREDS OF GLOBES AHEAD OF YOU ALL

@@jocelynndotson7273 wrong. Toba was much larger than Yellowstone

They are already a threat. They always been a threat. We know so little about them that is scary.

I agree. They are most definitely a threat. I propose a preemptive strike. We must defend freedom and the human way of life.

Jon Snow you know nothing jon snurrrr

Rhytmicfoil I used to live in Seattle moved out in 1994. I had a friend a geologist who told me about Mt Rainier and he moved his entire family to Florida. He told me that Hurricanes are not surprises but Mt Rainier will be a big one. It can happen tomorrow or 20 years from now, nobody knows. But is not hundreds or thousands of years away. In 1993 was a small almost unnoticeable earthquake in Seattle that was supposed to be a turning point. Knowing nothing is good for a movie but in real life you better know at least a little...lol

Jon Snow Mt. Rainier isn't a supervolcano. It's a regular volcano. Knowing *at least* that much is probably a good thing when you try to make a claim that supervolcanoes are a threat.

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Jen Ward though it would be fun to live stream yellow stone while it explodes...

@@oddpotato4038 I would totally do that. I mean it's not like you can do much to survive and super eruption. You can survive the original event but you can't run from the famine that follows. I'll be on front row seating and stream the explosion on Facebook. Lol

same here dude

WhenPigsFly HA nice joke.

supervolcanoes are like normal volcanoes

Landon Ford no not at all

Build a wall to keep the ash away

Hire trump

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Your Dogs Montly Salary or just go underground with ALOT of food water occupations and pick axes for expanding your underground house

Successful Failure i well im on the other side of the world from yellowstone that might kill american for good

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Means?

I mean,fertile lands. But still scary.

it's not a supervolcano its a stratovolcano

Giane Valerio Taal is not a Stratovolcano. It’s a caldera. Mayon is the Stratovolcano one.

No It is the yellowstone Taal is a stratovolcano It is not violent as the yellowstone

Giane Valerio lol! This isn’t about the violence of the volcano. It’s about their type. What’s your legit source for saying so?

THERE IS A VEI!! INDEX NOT THE SIZE!

I hope you are okay

Cuz it was smaller than Tambora

Cimon nalbantidis it was a 6 volcano,a supervolcano has to be 8 or more

If Yellowstone goes off, it will be far worse for you, my friend. Here in the Western U.S., we will probably die in a virtual flash, without even knowing what happened. You will succumb slowly in the following days, knowing that the rest of the world will have to secure their own resources and no discernable help will come. Starvation and exposure, without a power grid as ten to twenty feet of ash buries the Eastern seaboard, Mexico and Canada.

Lucky, I wish I lived there 😢

Yes we can. But there's pros and cons of doing so. Geothermal energy is very powerful. The problem lies with magma water interaction. Water making contact with magma expands over 1,500 times it's original volume. Using a lot of it could potentially destabilize a volcano. Theoretically if we can extract the energy from Yellowstone we can power the whole world 3 times over. But if we fail and somehow trigger a supervolcanic eruption then we may have well screwed the whole world 3 times over.

None ~ like large asteroid/cometary collisions and Nuclear War, such events are civilization ending, the scope of human response is dwarfed behind the magnitude of the disaster ... but unlike the two aforementioned for which humans can intervene, there is virtually nothing that can be done to prevent a supervolcano from erupting.

None, that's why we must build colonies elsewhere in the solar system.

Not having all our eggs in one basket, so to speak ... once we humans complete the process of space colonization within our own solar system, very few potential interplanetary affecting disasters will be sufficiently massive to destroy our civilization ... a passing rogue planet, star or black hole destabilizing planetary orbits, a nearby supernova or hypernova / gamma ray burst, or the death of the sun in 5 billion years, being prime examples ...

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