{"id":316669,"date":"2017-07-10T17:11:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/if-the-yellowstone-supervolcano-explodes\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T17:11:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:11:46","slug":"if-the-yellowstone-supervolcano-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/if-the-yellowstone-supervolcano-explodes\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Yellowstone Supervolcano Explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Amid a growing\u00a0<strong>\u2018swarm\u2019 of over earthquakes (now over 1000)<\/strong>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-07-06\/supervolcano-concerns-rise-after-montana-hit-strongest-earthquake-20-years\">Montana\u2019s largest quake ever<\/a>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-06-28\/scientists-fear-supervolcano-eruption-swarm-earthquakes-near-yellowstone-soars-800\">scientists are growing increasingly concerned<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that the so-called \u2018super-volcano\u2019 at the heart of Yellowstone National Park could be building towards a Category 7 eruption.<strong><em>\u00a0So what is a \u2018super-volcano\u2019 and what does its explosion mean for life on earth? NatGeo explains\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3c2UxRF9qyw\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/magazine\/2016\/05\/yellowstone-national-parks-supervolcano-animation\/\">As National Geographic details\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Think of Yellowstone as a gigantic pressure cooker, fueled by a massive supervolcano.<\/strong>\u00a0Water from rain and snowmelt, much of it centuries-old, percolates through cracks in the Earth\u2019s crust until heated by molten rock reservoirs deep below. The water then filters upward, eventually finding release in the thousands of geysers, hot springs, and other hydrothermal wonders.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/gold-silver-daily-spot-prices\/?utm_source=LRC&amp;utm_medium=textad&amp;utm_campaign=spotprices\">Instant Access to Current Spot Prices &amp; Interactive Charts<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/05\/20170708_NatGeo_0.jpg\" width=\"564\" height=\"288\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Eruptions of this supervolcano expel so much material that the crust caves in,\u00a0<strong>creating a craterlike depression called a caldera.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yellowstone is known as a supervolcano because of the violence and size of its explosions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/05\/20170708_NatGeo1_0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"558\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The plume of hot rock has been calculated at more than 600 miles deep.<\/strong>\u00a0But scientists suspect it actually descends as far as 1,800 miles, all the way to what\u2019s known as the Earth\u2019s outer core-mantle boundary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/05\/20170708_NatGeo2_0.jpg\" width=\"601\" height=\"221\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The reservoirs and plume are superheated, spongelike rock holding pockets of molten material called magma.<\/strong>\u00a0The reservoirs\u2019 heat, which originates in the plume, is what keeps the area\u2019s geysers boiling.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/05\/20170708_NatGeo3_0.jpg\" width=\"599\" height=\"213\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ancient rain and snowmelt seep down to just above the volcano\u2019s magma reservoirs, until they are superheated and rise again through the fractures.<\/strong>\u00a0Volcanic heat and gases help propel steam and water toward the surface, where they escape through hot springs or geysers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/05\/20170708_NatGeo4_0.jpg\" width=\"601\" height=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hot water rises from a deep&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/07\/tyler-durden\/yellowstone-supervolcano-explodes\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a growing\u00a0\u2018swarm\u2019 of over earthquakes (now over 1000), and\u00a0Montana\u2019s largest quake ever,\u00a0scientists are growing increasingly concerned\u00a0that the so-called \u2018super-volcano\u2019 at the heart of Yellowstone National Park could be building towards a Category 7 eruption.\u00a0So what is a \u2018super-volcano\u2019 and what does its explosion mean for life on earth? 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