Doomsday VI: Mega Eruption

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Everyone is familiar with the famous Hot Springs and Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. When Old Faithful spews; the 200 degree water travels 100 feet into the air. An amazing site. Imagine if you will pressure building 100 miles below sending tons of rock into the sky like a missile traveling 35,000 feet into the air. Planes traveling overhead would be disintegrated and there would be a seismic shock wave on a scale of 11. Within 10 seconds after the blast, the shock wave would travel 250 miles away in under 1 minute at 18,000 mph. 25,000 people would be dead instantly. Within 6 minutes, there would be a mushroom cloud 60 miles high and a tsunami would be created in the lake. A deafening sound of 150 decibels would rupture ear drums. A crater several miles wide would be created sending 37 billion tons flying 200 miles up and would be more powerful than a nuclear bomb killing 35,000. Within 30 minutes after the eruption, power would be out and the US and Canada would be hit with flying debris causing fires. Within 2 hours after the mega eruption, sound waves traveling at 767 mph would be heard around the world. After 1 month, sulfuric dioxide gas would cause acid rain turning into a winter situation that would cause the canals of Venice to be frozen over and blizzards would kill 99% of all plant life and 6 billion would die from lack of food. One year after the explosion, all food would be gone, all animals would be dead and there would be less than 1 billion people left on the planet. You never know what Mother Earth has in store. Sources: Ben McGee: Planetary Geologist; Jason Morgan: Geodynamacist; Steven Ross: Physicist; Greg Laughlin: Astrophysicist.