Uh. They won't. When these kind of super-volcanic eruptions happen, animal life is destroyed on a mass scale. Human instrumentation and science is MUCH more reliable, these days, than what wild animals do.
@dragonseye00 No it's definitely a sign. The day before Katrina hit, I was picking up loose stuff around the yard and it struck me how quiet it was. I looked and looked but there wasn't a bird, a cricket, a frog, a worm, a lizard, a stray cat, not even an ant anywhere. I got on the ground and actually dug looking for any signs of life. It was like every creature (except humans) left/went into hiding.
Yep! When the animals are fleeing, the forest goes quiet or you just get that feeling… that’s the sign but it may be too late. We don’t burrow underground or fly naturally.
😂60 years? That’s like fraction of a femtosecond in earth’s timeline. Imminent here could be thousands of years if not millions. Don’t worry humans won’t exist by then.
@@dgdave2673 Agreed. It is just sensationalism to get views. Most people have no comprehension of time, basing it on our micro miniscule 80 to 100 years we are here. We are very vain,, thinking we are superior.
The main problem with the Yellowstone Volcano is the dramatic music and sound effects around the area leading to jumping narratives and experts back and forth, that's what's going to make it erupt again
Very good description of how Yellowstone feels! Especially when walking around the hot pots and when you see the steam rising from so many different places in a meadow. It’s very easy to see how it would be a meaningful religious place for the Natives of this land and of some giant power.
I worked out there for a very brief period of time and went swimming in what's called "the boiling river". It's where a hot spring dumps into the Gardner River and its incredible. There's holes that are just hot spring and it's like a natural hot tub and where it actually dumps in is a nice luke warm water.
Were people really using those hot springs to bathe in for 1,000's of years? Lol. Your average airhead dandy who shows up there every year probably believes it.
Indeed. Obviously made for an American audience. They make a headline, formulate a sentence from the headline and then dance around the same sentence for 45 minutes culminating in repeating the same sentence at the end just for luck...
Not everyone knows about yellow stone park. And as for the length, if you have never been, this is just a glimpse of a magical place that is almost impossible to appreciate without 45 minutes of film
@@stevewright201 they have to! Remember that in its original form this documentary will have an hour of commercials split every five minutes, so they have to remind the audience what the program is about...
I've been a mine Geologist for 34 years now and when I tell people that I am happy as a little clam working 2km+ underground with the rocks popping and cracking around me due to the pressure, they tell me that I'm crazy. Then I tell them about Volcanologists. 32:30 Now those Geos are CRAZY.
@@ophidicism lol "random youtube commenter"... i know its hard to imagine now, with so few brain cells. but some ppl actually love and study volcanoes and earth science for hobby. theres a huge community of them that know a great deal about this stuff, far more than the average joe who spends all day scrolling and trolling.
Just to be clear: the volcano does NOT erupt "about every 640,000 years". 1. That is based on only three data points and utterly ignores the previous Yellowstone eruptions back along the Snake River Plain. 2.The last eruption was NOT 640 ka. It was actually 70 ka when a rhyolitic lava flow of substantial size was produced. 3. The most substantial hazard in the park is actually hydrothermal explosions as occurred at Biscuit Basin in 2024. Those are vastly more likely to hurt or kill peope than any magmatic eruption. Unfortunately this documentary goes much too far into sensationalism. Just like the vast majority of Yellowstone volcano documentaries.
It could erupt tomorrow but be a mild eruption! People think just cos it’s a super volcano that it’s gonna have a mega eruption every time but that ain’t the case
@@phil20_20 only time they ain’t danger is if it’s extinct if u are living in a dormant volcano then there’s always chance it could blow any day so they Is obv danger 😂
Anyone with even the most rudimentary geological or volcanological knowledge would know that the Yellowstone volcano is nowhere near any sort of eruption, and likely won't be for thousands, if not tens of thousands of years.
I absolutely love the science behind volcanoes. I’ve visited and climbed Mt. Vesuvius and walked where Pompeii used to be. No matter which volcano happens to erupt, Campi Flegrei or Vesuvius, many will suffer and that’s just devastating.
I am asking my geology/physics professor Massage Client about what she thinks about how much of this is sensationalism and how much is science. I’ll get back to you. PS she’s also a volcanologist
The last eruption from Taupo was about 1,700 years ago, and that eruption was the biggest eruption on Earth over the past 5000 years. Taupo's previous super eruption was 25,000 years ago and that was the biggest eruption known to have happened on Earth within the last 70,000 years. So the last two biggest eruptions in Earths geological history within the past 70,000 years both were Taupo in New Zealand. Taupo is believed to be the super volcano most likely to have a super VEI-8+ eruption in the near future. That will have a catastrophic global effect on the whole planet.
It's not possible for the magma chamber to remain constant in size, plus the rate of filling up of the chamber would likely differ. How can we assume that the regular interval of eruption will be followed in future.
It's the slowest time bomb I've heard of. An eruption expected every 700,000 years and the last was 640,000 years ago. I am not going into my shelter today then.
You are aware that is an average? The 1st two were spaced around 800k years, plus minus a few thousands, another one: around 660k years, so if there is a trend of a growing frequency, then the eruption might be like 150k years delayed... Or not. Nobody knows for sure :)
Drilling 1000 5-20km deep wells for geothermal and escape of gases should cause delay in an eruption. The new plasma drilling technology might be the solution. Difficult to believe removing heat and dissolved gases wouldn't help. I would rather see the demise of Old Faithful than the demise of humanity and significant life on earth.
1. Yellowstone is in fact a mantle plume hotspot. It is not a stratovolcano. Called a shield volcano. The Shield is named because of the magma type that is hotter and has less silica so the rock ends up cooling over a larger and flatter surface. 2. The hotspot is currently underneath the Northwest portion of Wyoming making its way through the rocky mountain range where the Earth's crust is 40 miles thick. Unless the hotspot can exploit a fault somewhere in the Rocky Mountain range, more than likely it will not be able to effuse magma that far to the surface. 3. Over the last 2.5 million years, the hotspot has had major events occur on a roughly 700,000 year cycle. This in no way shape or form means that it will erupt. Again, it depends on the surface above the Hotspot. 4. Scans have been made of the Chamber of magma lying just beneath the surface underneath the hotspot. This chamber is as wide as the state of Montana and extends beyond the reach of the scans ability which drops off at about 500 miles of depth. 500 miles down is into the upper mantle where material is semi viscous and well over 500 to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. 5. If we do in fact witness a major event from the Yellowstone hotspot in our lifetimes everything east of the hotspot will be decimated. It would more than likely cloak the Earth in volcanic ash and worse yet sulfur dioxide refracting sunlight for up to 5 years. Photosynthesis would shut down and all plants would die. Within a couple of years the entire food chain would break down and there would probably be a 70% to 90% of "species" Global Extinction. But there is hope. The last time an Extinction of this magnitude occurred, fish, bivavles, crustaceans, reptiles, crocodilians, amphibians, some proto mammals, insects, birds, conifers, several gymnosperms, algae, and cyanobacteria survived. So we got that going for us.
@cdineaglecollapsecenter4672 Or at least we haven't found any evidence yet. That's the thing about science. It's theoretical. Consistently debated. Continually studied.
It would vaporize an amazing landscape, but would not trigger an eruption. Most energy from such explosions goes into the atmosphere. Strong earthquakes release energy directly into the rock and have as much yield as a moderate nuclear weapon. The 1959 M7.3 happened essentially right next to the Yellowstone magma chamber, and had no impact on that system. The magma chamber is mostly solid anyway.
How about if some Simon Bar Sinister-like nefario pipeline-fracked lanced an area like a deep, sinewing pimple, then sent one or 2 20 MT bombs deep enough before the magma compromises them, then they're detonated? Would that relieve some pressure, or irritate/aggravate the caldera/volcano? What if a ring of 10 bunker-buster-line 100MT/300MT Tsara Bombas hit some of the softer areas afterwards? Anyone notice the Sun Microsystems workstations? I thought those weren't manufactured past/post 2010. Are those rigs still chugging away, or is that archival footage? I thought that after Oracle bought Sun, Linux gradually absorbed the science apps and gen purp PC hardware took over or overtook the Sun stations I guess I should look them up.
There have been discussion from park rangers that discussed a "blow off" that releases pressure when it gets too high. The happened at the last eruption. The likelyhood of another eruption with this is staggeringly low.
I’m torn about this in all honesty. I really admire Iceland’s ability to harness their very active geothermal features to provide electricity and heat to its citizens. After visiting Iceland, one critique I have is that the plants with their necessary industrial features mar the natural beauty of the surroundings. For instance, the Svartsengi power plant can be seen from the Blue Lagoon resort. The Reykjanes power plant can be seen from the Gunnuhver Hot Springs. One thing that America does pretty well is our National Park System. Setting these wilderness areas aside for all to behold their mostly unaltered splendor is extremely important. But, then again, so isn’t finding more practical and cost-lowering ways to heat and power homes and businesses.
@@GooberFace32 The Blue lagoon was not there before the powerplant, it was a side effect of the powerplants operations. The difference is that Iceland is a very harsh place, not much nature there to begin with as it sits 1,400 miles further north than Yellowstone national park. There is also National parks on Iceland, three to be exact.
It's more likely to be an eruption like that 70,000 years ago (most recent eruption). It would be serious, but not world threatening. Plus, to get an accurate idea of mega, caldera forming eruptions, you must take the average from the eruptions along the entire hotspot track. When you do that, it averages about 1.6 million years between caldera-forming events. And volcanoes do not erupt on a schedule. The last 3 eruptions are a statistical fluke.
A Super Volcano, along with the everest size Asteroid on colision corse with earth and Nuclear war, or along with a Zombie Apocalipse, global warming And a super storm are the only natural catastrofes that worries me... Along with a clickbait thumbnail... Very very dangerous
Thank you for the high-quality documentaries! I appreciate all the maps and systematic explanations. I've just seen a documentary produced by someone else and was highly disappointed. Much more sensational, less effort to explain. So I'm watching this to "correct the taste in my mouth", as we say in Czech. You have spoiled me! 😂 Very intrigued by the explanation "Volcanic ash is glass."
I am actually interested in the role of the ground water in the explosiveness of the eruption. The magma may be significant but if it comes into contact with large quantities of water that rapidly expands wouldn't that be like throwing gasoline on the fire? Rapid chain reaction that is extremely violent leading to subterranean explosion that would trigger/allow more water to permeate and expand etc.
That was one of the concerns at Chernobyl and to a lesser degree Fukushima. The concerns were that if the "corium" would burn through the containment structures and burn down to the water tables and you would get a huge steam explosion mixed with radioactive particles.
@@MrTommyboy68 interesting! That would have indeed been unfortunate if that occurred. I hope that the US puts some money into creating detailed 3D models / simulations of this area. Seems like an existential issue which, although remote, should definitely be studied in detail :) Lets hope it stays dormant for several more 100s of thousands of years!
It came out 19 minutes ago and is 42 minutes long and you posted this 16 minutes ago. You could have watched 3 minutes at most so you have no idea if it’s good or not.
Nice video! I thought the visuals for the magma chambers were really good. I appreciate the volcanologists working hard to understand and predict volcanoes, and just love the science. Volcanoes can impact the climate and a super-eruption can disrupt the climate severely. But we have no evidence of mass extinctions due to the Quaternary eruptions of the Yellowstone hot spot. Just to put this into perspective, right now humans are emitting a hundred times more greenhouse gases than all the volcanoes combined. We are in a mass extinction due to the multitudinous effects of human material streams. We are manufacturing a global climate catastrophe ourselves which will play out in the immediate human future and we collectively are not doing anything like what it would take to avert it. So while we are watching nature with awe, we need to be figuring out how to behave in such a way that our descendants will be in a position to do the same. Happy New Year!
You are the first one I saw who mentioned the "HOT SPOT." I learned from Nick Zentner, a Geology Professor at Central Washington University, that Yellowstone is over a "HOT SPOT," just like the one that created the Hawaiian Islands. The last time it BLEW UP was about 64,000 years ago, in Idaho. Because of PLATE TECTONICS,, it is now in Wyoming. 🐈⬛🐈⬛👵My cats Teo, Twotwo and me.
Why is it that on your channel it is not yet possible to hear the vocal translation in other languages (so not the uncomfortable subtitles that have been there for years) of what you say? 😐
I'm 1 minute in and have been lied to 4 times. Yellowstone has erupted hundreds of times in the location that hotspot currently sits on, and many thousands of times before that. The overwhelming majority of those eruptions are small, a bit like the eruption of La Palma, with the occasional bigger explosive eruption. Even the largest possible eruption that Yellowstone is capable of would not be an existential threat to humanity, we've survived many super eruptions already. It wouldn't be fun for a couple years but we'd be okay. Super eruptions also don't just happen, there are weeks to months to years to centuries of warning signs before the climactic stage so yes you can run from it. And no insinuation ever made should ever put anyone on the track to think that Yellowstone is anywhere near erupting, in fact quite the opposite. Yellowstone will likely never erupt as a supervolcano in its current location ever again, the eruptive magma chamber simply isn't getting any new magma, and what's there is only getting older and colder and 90%+ of the chamber is now frozen solid. In some 1-2 million years it might erupt again around 100 miles to the east of where it is simply because the continent shifted west over the hotspot.
Seeing as currently it's winter here Yogi and Booboo are sleeping. We do ask please don't try to feed them when they wake up. They are not trained or tamed. We also ask don't try to get an 8 second ride on a bison. They are not your standard Rodeo bull.
Sensationalism. All the dramatic background music and visuals tell you that. Scientists have said there are no signs of any changes to magma chambers or any different activity to point to Yellowstone moving closer to any eruption, let alone the once-every 700,000 year super-eruption.
@@Jeff-sl8xz The Earth always goes through warming and cooling cycles. They just wanna tell you different so they can tax you. Not saying we didn't speed things up however it was going to happen anyways as will another ice age.
The last comment was perhaps the most important "respect" Something that far too many of the world's population are lacking in so many areas. I think if we had reintroduced the meaning and understanding of what respect is, most of the world's problems would be solved.
It's fascinating to know that there are so many things that humans are not in control of. Today's population needs to be put in its place every now and then. By nature.
I’m confused. If the land that fell into the caldera is taking the magmas place, where did all the magma go? If you say it explode outwards, it would have had to blow the land outwards first, therefor, there would not have been any land to fall into the caldera, so where did all the magma go?
It's pretty much a stochastic system at depth, what is there to understand? Feed the data into AI and see what you get instead.. I guess we will need sensor operators and cable guys for that
I wish people understood just how absolutely unlikely yellowstone is to currently erupt. It doesnt have a high enough liquid content of its magma chamber, not nearly enough magmatic activity, and beyond that even if it did erupt, its erupted more than 3 times and most are minor eruptions. Yellowstone is just the latest in a series of hotspot related volcanic systems, and that hotspot could at any point stop feeding the yellowstone volcano and start forming a new volcanic complex. Or it could keep feeding yellowstone. But either way the time scale on which a VEI 8 eruption would occur is far from where we are now. Also there are much more concerning "super" volcanoes in the world to be worried about than yellowstone, ones barely or rarely studied. Its one of, if not the most studied volcanic complex in the world, we would know if something truely concerning was going on below the surface.
Worry not as long as the lid rumbles, it is when it goes silent you need to worry because then the continental plate has moved so far over the hotspot that there is a firm lid on it, the condition required for a pressure build up for an explosion. Is this concept too simple to understand even for a highly qualified channel lik yours DW?
From what I've seen the movement has put the cladera farther from the largest magma chamber so if it does erupt again it won't be as bad as feared and not necessarily a "super" eruption but who really knows. Either way it proably won't be a great day if it does go off.
Well, that's reassuring if true. Am already worried with our own volcano here in Italy that's quite active and quite large, Campi Flegrei. We have family that lives there.
In the lower mainland of BC Canada the eruption of Mt St Helen was profound, flattening old growth forests raining down ash for a long time in various parts of Canada. It was akin to a very large hydrogen bomb without the radiation. As I understand issues the west coast has been laying a large network of more modern kit and sensors along our coast giving us some notice before a portion of the continent is swallowed up
7 years a neighbour's family was on holiday in Yellowstone. They were abducted, tortured, and slain by a group of unprovoked geese. The video of this unfortunate horror has been deemed to violent for social media. The video depicts the geese were gestering the family for food/ bread, and when the adult female motioned with her hand for them to shew away, they attacked. The geese joined their wings together in pairs of 8 to 12 plus and flew away with everyone in their family. They're skeletol remains were found in Argentina nearly a year later. They're flesh had been plucked clean from the bone. Several of the murdering geese posed for the cameras the family had on their persons following their murders
Don’t give 2025 ideas DW
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2024 was just trailer my friend, get ready for 2025.
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It’s judgement day for how we have treated our mother!!
If all the animals suddenly leave one day then that itself is a good sign something is coming.
Uh. They won't. When these kind of super-volcanic eruptions happen, animal life is destroyed on a mass scale. Human instrumentation and science is MUCH more reliable, these days, than what wild animals do.
Not so much a good sign but I know it's just a figure of speech
@dragonseye00 No it's definitely a sign. The day before Katrina hit, I was picking up loose stuff around the yard and it struck me how quiet it was.
I looked and looked but there wasn't a bird, a cricket, a frog, a worm, a lizard, a stray cat, not even an ant anywhere. I got on the ground and actually dug looking for any signs of life. It was like every creature (except humans) left/went into hiding.
Yep! When the animals are fleeing, the forest goes quiet or you just get that feeling… that’s the sign but it may be too late. We don’t burrow underground or fly naturally.
That didn’t happen when Mt St Helens blew.
I really don't like the dramatization style documentary. The facts alone are interesting enough.
Agreed. I could do without the silly music.
Agree with both of you. This is a departure from the more sober DW style.
Especially the high frequency pheeping in the background musac... it hurts my ears.
The world doesn’t revolve around you. They need to make things dramatic to draw in people who normally wouldn’t watch science programs.
that's a tall order . Nothing like a nasal robot voice to tell you the doomsday projections .
I've been hearing about the "imminent" eruption in Yellowstone for at least the past 60 years. AND the "big one" in California.
Eventually it will be right.
Geologically just a moment
😂60 years? That’s like fraction of a femtosecond in earth’s timeline. Imminent here could be thousands of years if not millions. Don’t worry humans won’t exist by then.
@@dgdave2673 Agreed. It is just sensationalism to get views. Most people have no comprehension of time, basing it on our micro miniscule 80 to 100 years we are here. We are very vain,, thinking we are superior.
@@ericsonhazeltine5064 Not in my lifetime.
Yellowstone is NOT in the middle of the U.S.!
of course not, but it sounds cooler.
Agreed. But it's potentially so massive that complaining it isn't to the Volcano complaints/DEI department probably isn't going to matter much.
I was gonna say the same thing.. like do they think it's in Nebraska or something lol
The main problem with the Yellowstone Volcano is the dramatic music and sound effects around the area leading to jumping narratives and experts back and forth, that's what's going to make it erupt again
When you are there, its hard not to imagine that happening. The earth feels angry there. Despite the beautiful nature and wildlife around you.
Very good description of how Yellowstone feels! Especially when walking around the hot pots and when you see the steam rising from so many different places in a meadow. It’s very easy to see how it would be a meaningful religious place for the Natives of this land and of some giant power.
I worked out there for a very brief period of time and went swimming in what's called "the boiling river". It's where a hot spring dumps into the Gardner River and its incredible. There's holes that are just hot spring and it's like a natural hot tub and where it actually dumps in is a nice luke warm water.
Were people really using those hot springs to bathe in for 1,000's of years? Lol. Your average airhead dandy who shows up there every year probably believes it.
As a mt st helens survivor, when the animals begin to leave, you leave too.
Maybe you were there on that day of the month for Gaia.
We destroy ourselves much sooner
What if suddenly everything turns into a Garden of Eden again, instead?
Packed 5 minutes of info into 45 min. 😂
Action packed! Just imagine if it was in Real Time. 😜
Indeed. Obviously made for an American audience. They make a headline, formulate a sentence from the headline and then dance around the same sentence for 45 minutes culminating in repeating the same sentence at the end just for luck...
Yes they are just repeating themselves over and over
Not everyone knows about yellow stone park. And as for the length, if you have never been, this is just a glimpse of a magical place that is almost impossible to appreciate without 45 minutes of film
@@stevewright201 they have to! Remember that in its original form this documentary will have an hour of commercials split every five minutes, so they have to remind the audience what the program is about...
I've been a mine Geologist for 34 years now and when I tell people that I am happy as a little clam working 2km+ underground with the rocks popping and cracking around me due to the pressure, they tell me that I'm crazy. Then I tell them about Volcanologists. 32:30 Now those Geos are CRAZY.
Happen to agree with you. Seems sketchy being around raging molten rock.
I thought America's ticking time bomb would be the economy 😬
30 trillion ticking bomb
this is just natural disasters. 🤣🤣
Compared to what Yellowstone will do to the entire WORLD, the economy is nothing
It is.
@@dcallan812 Trump isn't a disaster waiting to happen?
Interesting but the near constant dramatic music isn't necessary :)
What a novel idea: fear-mongering to attract attention. No one's ever done that before.
DW are master fear smiths.
Ok! But it is fine to fear the eruption of a super volcano.
No, it is not on the verge of any kind of eruption other than hydrothermal, which it had one large one last year.
Totally agree. In September '24, they shared surveys that showed the lava dome moving under a very deep segment of crust.
Hope you are right people 😮😮😮😮
Haha. Thanks, random RUclips commenter. I feel better already.
Is correct. This video is clickbait misinformation. A cheap scheme to get views by fear mongering.
@@ophidicism lol "random youtube commenter"... i know its hard to imagine now, with so few brain cells. but some ppl actually love and study volcanoes and earth science for hobby. theres a huge community of them that know a great deal about this stuff, far more than the average joe who spends all day scrolling and trolling.
I love your documentaries. This is a good one to kickstart the year 😊
Thanks a lot for watching and for your positive feedback.
@@DWDocumentary I think it was sarcasm 😅
@@davidpocsi1733I don’t think it was…
Great. It's not just war and inflation we have to worry about. Now, even volcanic eruptions. But great documentary as always DW! Thanks.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
Mother Nature Fiery is much worse than Mans.
Well, you already had the volcanic eruption to worry about - it’s been there a while, apparently!
Not caused by us and nothing you can do to stop it... so why worry?
War, inflation/starvation, disease and increased seismic activity - the "four horsemen" of the end times.
Come to JESUS today.
Just to be clear: the volcano does NOT erupt "about every 640,000 years".
1. That is based on only three data points and utterly ignores the previous Yellowstone eruptions back along the Snake River Plain.
2.The last eruption was NOT 640 ka. It was actually 70 ka when a rhyolitic lava flow of substantial size was produced.
3. The most substantial hazard in the park is actually hydrothermal explosions as occurred at Biscuit Basin in 2024. Those are vastly more likely to hurt or kill peope than any magmatic eruption.
Unfortunately this documentary goes much too far into sensationalism. Just like the vast majority of Yellowstone volcano documentaries.
It could erupt tomorrow but be a mild eruption! People think just cos it’s a super volcano that it’s gonna have a mega eruption every time but that ain’t the case
And you know this how? Lol...by the way ain't isn't a word.
@@WaningGibbous Neither is "Lol," but we do not judge here.
@WaningGibbous speaking on behalf of the American South, we can tell who ain't from around here. 😂
I've lived inside volcanoes myself. There is no danger.
@@phil20_20 only time they ain’t danger is if it’s extinct if u are living in a dormant volcano then there’s always chance it could blow any day so they Is obv danger 😂
Anyone with even the most rudimentary geological or volcanological knowledge would know that the Yellowstone volcano is nowhere near any sort of eruption, and likely won't be for thousands, if not tens of thousands of years.
it's all fear mongering. two days ago they said the one off the coast of Oregon is going to erupt in 2025.
I’m pretty sure even if it erupted it’ll just be a lava flow
@@redeem5858 That would depend on the chemical composition of the lava.
I have no geological knowledge so I am happy to read your comment. I wanted to listen to a relaxing nature video to put me to sleep. This wasn't it
@@magpie1744 I tried to suggest some sleepytime vide0 categories but my comment was auto-removed almost instantly.
So this is how the earth recovers the rise in temperature, a couple of years of volcanic winter and back to normal.
careful now, with solid evidence and years of proof with that, you will ruin their climate fearing agenda bwahhaah
Very interesting..I experienced the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo so I have an idea of this topic..thank you DW for this documentary and Happy New Year!.🎉
Campi Flegrei super volcano is side to side compared to Yellowstone. Maybe scarier than Yellowstone...
Much much scarier in terms of eruption probability. Yellowstone isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
NM has a super volcano nobody ever talks about. Valles Caldera
I've always wondered if either one erupted would it cause the other to erupt.
It is. Geological surveys show Yellowstone isnt building the pressure they expected and predicted.
@@pamlove421No it wouldn't as there would be a massive pressure release.
I absolutely love the science behind volcanoes. I’ve visited and climbed Mt. Vesuvius and walked where Pompeii used to be. No matter which volcano happens to erupt, Campi Flegrei or Vesuvius, many will suffer and that’s just devastating.
The way the world is right now, I don’t think that the Vulcan will kill us, we are doing that all by ourselves.
New year.
New documentary.
Nice explanation, Stunning picture and picturization.
A very Happy New Year, 2025 to DW documentary team.
Thank you for your comment!
Happy new year 🎊 Everyone 2025
Don't forget to smile!
Gaia watching humanity try and destroy the biosphere.... "hold my beer".
Lol
This is how Gaia does her work. Extinction drives evolution and therefore life.
No need for dramatization-the facts speak for themselves.
You can just read a book if you just want facts. Some of us do love a good presentation.
I am asking my geology/physics professor Massage Client about what she thinks about how much of this is sensationalism and how much is science. I’ll get back to you. PS she’s also a volcanologist
Didn’t know that was an occupation, but it seems quite important tbh haha
Please do ! This sounds very far fetched
@@jennychurchill2716 A volcano erupting - very farfetched.
These are facts. I watched a documentary 20 years ago produced by PBS. All facts are presented here.
Short answer. There is a risk, but it is very, very small, at least in our lifetime. On a geological scale, it seems to be due.
I have more concerns about the Phlegraean Fields, and I live in Idaho.
Hmmm??? Never heard of this, it sounds a little familiar, but idk... I'll look it up 👍
@@firstnamelastname6216 Campi Flegrei in Italy. Next to Mount Vesuvius. Next to Pompeii.
Certainly puts the budget deficit in perspective, doesn't it.
There is a super volcano in the middle of North island of New Zealand
Living 3hrs from Taupo I would prefer for it not to go boom yet.
You have a far greater danger than that in little NZ.......... Parliament......... meaning all of those who inhabit the place.
The last eruption from Taupo was about 1,700 years ago, and that eruption was the biggest eruption on Earth over the past 5000 years.
Taupo's previous super eruption was 25,000 years ago and that was the biggest eruption known to have happened on Earth within the last 70,000 years.
So the last two biggest eruptions in Earths geological history within the past 70,000 years both were Taupo in New Zealand.
Taupo is believed to be the super volcano most likely to have a super VEI-8+ eruption in the near future. That will have a catastrophic global effect on the whole planet.
@10_rds_Fire_For_Effect exactly not everything has to happen in America
I would love to visit Yellowstone. Or some remote forest in North America, the beauty of that region is astounding
It's not possible for the magma chamber to remain constant in size, plus the rate of filling up of the chamber would likely differ. How can we assume that the regular interval of eruption will be followed in future.
The one in italy is far closer to eruption Campi Flegrei
Interesting information, but Yellowstone erupting is far from imminent. There are tons of much more pressing concerns
Thank you for all your knowledge it's a cool version.
It's the slowest time bomb I've heard of. An eruption expected every 700,000 years and the last was 640,000 years ago. I am not going into my shelter today then.
You got about 60,000 to get there.
You are aware that is an average? The 1st two were spaced around 800k years, plus minus a few thousands, another one: around 660k years, so if there is a trend of a growing frequency, then the eruption might be like 150k years delayed... Or not. Nobody knows for sure :)
Great production value and very informative. I love a good doc
This sort of explosion has zero comparison to a nuclear catastrophic radiation fallout..
Yup the fallout would be worse with a super eruption than a nuclear explosion.
If the water table in Yellowstone keeps dropping that will eventually cause an eruption
That is very, very debatable to say the least.
A dropping water table in Yellowstone would not directly cause an eruption. Eruptions are driven by magma beneath the surface, not groundwater levels.
Drilling 1000 5-20km deep wells for geothermal and escape of gases should cause delay in an eruption. The new plasma drilling technology might be the solution. Difficult to believe removing heat and dissolved gases wouldn't help. I would rather see the demise of Old Faithful than the demise of humanity and significant life on earth.
1. Yellowstone is in fact a mantle plume hotspot.
It is not a stratovolcano. Called a shield volcano.
The Shield is named because of the magma type that is hotter and has less silica so the rock ends up cooling over a larger and flatter surface.
2. The hotspot is currently underneath the Northwest portion of Wyoming making its way through the rocky mountain range where the Earth's crust is 40 miles thick.
Unless the hotspot can exploit a fault somewhere in the Rocky Mountain range, more than likely it will not be able to effuse magma that far to the surface.
3. Over the last 2.5 million years, the hotspot has had major events occur on a roughly 700,000 year cycle.
This in no way shape or form means that it will erupt.
Again, it depends on the surface above the Hotspot.
4. Scans have been made of the Chamber of magma lying just beneath the surface underneath the hotspot.
This chamber is as wide as the state of Montana and extends beyond the reach of the scans ability which drops off at about 500 miles of depth.
500 miles down is into the upper mantle where material is semi viscous and well over 500 to 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
5. If we do in fact witness a major event from the Yellowstone hotspot in our lifetimes everything east of the hotspot will be decimated.
It would more than likely cloak the Earth in volcanic ash and worse yet sulfur dioxide refracting sunlight for up to 5 years.
Photosynthesis would shut down and all plants would die.
Within a couple of years the entire food chain would break down and there would probably be a 70% to 90% of "species" Global Extinction.
But there is hope. The last time an Extinction of this magnitude occurred, fish, bivavles, crustaceans, reptiles, crocodilians, amphibians, some proto mammals, insects, birds, conifers, several gymnosperms, algae, and cyanobacteria survived.
So we got that going for us.
Yellowstone has had 3 super eruptions in the Quaternary and there were no associated mass extinctions.
@cdineaglecollapsecenter4672
Or at least we haven't found any evidence yet.
That's the thing about science. It's theoretical.
Consistently debated. Continually studied.
41:35 All we humans can ever hope to do is run like hell ! I'm sure as hell not gonna stand and watch as DW is suggesting. 😂😂
DW, many listeners have hearing impairment. We can't watch this documentary because of the background music.
I'm one
The scariest part is this last comment: we can only "stand and watch".
I'm not saying it's aliens… but it's aliens.
They checked the possibility of taking Earth as their own, they said nah nevermind, those people there are crazy
😂😂😂😂
This isn't the History Channel! 🤣😂🙄
You obviously saw the documentary, "Pacific Rim."
For volcanologists out there, what effect would dropping a nuclear bomb at yellowstone have?
It would vaporize an amazing landscape, but would not trigger an eruption. Most energy from such explosions goes into the atmosphere. Strong earthquakes release energy directly into the rock and have as much yield as a moderate nuclear weapon. The 1959 M7.3 happened essentially right next to the Yellowstone magma chamber, and had no impact on that system. The magma chamber is mostly solid anyway.
How about if some Simon Bar Sinister-like nefario pipeline-fracked lanced an area like a deep, sinewing pimple, then sent one or 2 20 MT bombs deep enough before the magma compromises them, then they're detonated?
Would that relieve some pressure, or irritate/aggravate the caldera/volcano?
What if a ring of 10 bunker-buster-line 100MT/300MT Tsara Bombas hit some of the softer areas afterwards?
Anyone notice the Sun Microsystems workstations? I thought those weren't manufactured past/post 2010. Are those rigs still chugging away, or is that archival footage?
I thought that after Oracle bought Sun, Linux gradually absorbed the science apps and gen purp PC hardware took over or overtook the Sun stations
I guess I should look them up.
There have been discussion from park rangers that discussed a "blow off" that releases pressure when it gets too high. The happened at the last eruption. The likelyhood of another eruption with this is staggeringly low.
This documentary should be remade without the "Hurry up!" music
i love DW documentary
How come Iceland can work Geothermal Power in the Blue Lagoon but the USA can not?
it is a national park.....
I’m torn about this in all honesty. I really admire Iceland’s ability to harness their very active geothermal features to provide electricity and heat to its citizens. After visiting Iceland, one critique I have is that the plants with their necessary industrial features mar the natural beauty of the surroundings. For instance, the Svartsengi power plant can be seen from the Blue Lagoon resort. The Reykjanes power plant can be seen from the Gunnuhver Hot Springs. One thing that America does pretty well is our National Park System. Setting these wilderness areas aside for all to behold their mostly unaltered splendor is extremely important. But, then again, so isn’t finding more practical and cost-lowering ways to heat and power homes and businesses.
@@GooberFace32 But the Blue Lagoon is the result o the power plant, otherwise it wouldn't have any water in it.
@@GooberFace32 The Blue lagoon was not there before the powerplant, it was a side effect of the powerplants operations.
The difference is that Iceland is a very harsh place, not much nature there to begin with as it sits 1,400 miles further north than Yellowstone national park. There is also National parks on Iceland, three to be exact.
Yellowstone has had 3 major eruptions in the past 2(ish) million years... not "Earth's history".. Sorry, please continue. This is good stuff :)
Geez DW. Stop sensationalism if there aren’t any scientists sounding the alarm! You’re better than this
Excellent Documentary !!
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
We had ash fallout from Mount St Helen's 1980 eruption landing in our town, and we live on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
It landed in the UK too!
"Holy 'cano Batman"
"Precisely Robin"
It's more likely to be an eruption like that 70,000 years ago (most recent eruption). It would be serious, but not world threatening. Plus, to get an accurate idea of mega, caldera forming eruptions, you must take the average from the eruptions along the entire hotspot track. When you do that, it averages about 1.6 million years between caldera-forming events. And volcanoes do not erupt on a schedule. The last 3 eruptions are a statistical fluke.
St Helen sits next to the West Coast Fault Line.😮
The Cascade volcanoes are a direct result of the subduction.
A Super Volcano, along with the everest size Asteroid on colision corse with earth and Nuclear war, or along with a Zombie Apocalipse, global warming And a super storm are the only natural catastrofes that worries me... Along with a clickbait thumbnail... Very very dangerous
DW should make a documentary on the zombie apocalypse!
My understanding is that as the crust moves over the hot spot it brings in new material and each explosion reduces stress.
Sorry DW, I've already seen enough 'what ifs' documentaries about Yellowstone 😂
but still, SUPER interesting. 👍
Thank you for the high-quality documentaries! I appreciate all the maps and systematic explanations. I've just seen a documentary produced by someone else and was highly disappointed. Much more sensational, less effort to explain. So I'm watching this to "correct the taste in my mouth", as we say in Czech. You have spoiled me! 😂
Very intrigued by the explanation "Volcanic ash is glass."
There's one in the Arctic ocean too. It's bigger.
There are many of them. Italy has one which is much closer to eruption than Yellowstone.
@quand_meme not like Yellowstone at all. It's a dwarf compared to Yellowstone or the one in the Arctic.
This has a feel of early pbs documentaries, minus a summary every 15min to remind people what they are watching after the tv ad break
This place looks like my wife's car engine only after 4 months ownership
I am actually interested in the role of the ground water in the explosiveness of the eruption. The magma may be significant but if it comes into contact with large quantities of water that rapidly expands wouldn't that be like throwing gasoline on the fire? Rapid chain reaction that is extremely violent leading to subterranean explosion that would trigger/allow more water to permeate and expand etc.
That was one of the concerns at Chernobyl and to a lesser degree Fukushima. The concerns were that if the "corium" would burn through the containment structures and burn down to the water tables and you would get a huge steam explosion mixed with radioactive particles.
@@MrTommyboy68 interesting! That would have indeed been unfortunate if that occurred. I hope that the US puts some money into creating detailed 3D models / simulations of this area. Seems like an existential issue which, although remote, should definitely be studied in detail :) Lets hope it stays dormant for several more 100s of thousands of years!
Bring it! Let's go
Surprised bouguer anomaly (gravity) wasn't mentioned combined with velocity mapping of the subsurface to see the chamber properties.
Great documentary, from Brazil.
It came out 19 minutes ago and is 42 minutes long and you posted this 16 minutes ago. You could have watched 3 minutes at most so you have no idea if it’s good or not.
Thanks for watching!
bueno bueno!
Interesting documentary. 💯👏
Do time bombs always tick? What if it's a digital time bomb? If Yellowstone erupts I'm gonna get a bottle of whiskey and toast the end of the world 🌎
Insightful. Thank you
Nice video! I thought the visuals for the magma chambers were really good. I appreciate the volcanologists working hard to understand and predict volcanoes, and just love the science.
Volcanoes can impact the climate and a super-eruption can disrupt the climate severely. But we have no evidence of mass extinctions due to the Quaternary eruptions of the Yellowstone hot spot.
Just to put this into perspective, right now humans are emitting a hundred times more greenhouse gases than all the volcanoes combined. We are in a mass extinction due to the multitudinous effects of human material streams. We are manufacturing a global climate catastrophe ourselves which will play out in the immediate human future and we collectively are not doing anything like what it would take to avert it. So while we are watching nature with awe, we need to be figuring out how to behave in such a way that our descendants will be in a position to do the same. Happy New Year!
You are the first one I saw who mentioned the "HOT SPOT." I learned from Nick Zentner, a Geology Professor at Central Washington University, that Yellowstone is over a "HOT SPOT," just like the one that created the Hawaiian Islands. The last time it BLEW UP was about 64,000 years ago, in Idaho. Because of PLATE TECTONICS,, it is now in Wyoming. 🐈⬛🐈⬛👵My cats Teo, Twotwo and me.
Why is it that on your channel it is not yet possible to hear the vocal translation in other languages (so not the uncomfortable subtitles that have been there for years) of what you say? 😐
I'm 1 minute in and have been lied to 4 times. Yellowstone has erupted hundreds of times in the location that hotspot currently sits on, and many thousands of times before that. The overwhelming majority of those eruptions are small, a bit like the eruption of La Palma, with the occasional bigger explosive eruption. Even the largest possible eruption that Yellowstone is capable of would not be an existential threat to humanity, we've survived many super eruptions already. It wouldn't be fun for a couple years but we'd be okay. Super eruptions also don't just happen, there are weeks to months to years to centuries of warning signs before the climactic stage so yes you can run from it. And no insinuation ever made should ever put anyone on the track to think that Yellowstone is anywhere near erupting, in fact quite the opposite. Yellowstone will likely never erupt as a supervolcano in its current location ever again, the eruptive magma chamber simply isn't getting any new magma, and what's there is only getting older and colder and 90%+ of the chamber is now frozen solid. In some 1-2 million years it might erupt again around 100 miles to the east of where it is simply because the continent shifted west over the hotspot.
You beat me to it.
that was really interesting, thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Does Yogi know about this?
Yogi and Booboo built a flying machine out of some picnic tables, they are ready to go
Seeing as currently it's winter here Yogi and Booboo are sleeping. We do ask please don't try to feed them when they wake up. They are not trained or tamed. We also ask don't try to get an 8 second ride on a bison. They are not your standard Rodeo bull.
Sensationalism. All the dramatic background music and visuals tell you that. Scientists have said there are no signs of any changes to magma chambers or any different activity to point to Yellowstone moving closer to any eruption, let alone the once-every 700,000 year super-eruption.
here we are, paying our taxes and living in fear
Born to late to explore the world. Born to early for the super volcano.
1 to 3 years of darkness and cold, a Mini ice age. I don't see the issue.
Just another day in the park!
Wait a mini ice age? What happened to the Democrats and all of their crying about global warming? A ice age is not global warming
@@Jeff-sl8xz The Earth always goes through warming and cooling cycles. They just wanna tell you different so they can tax you. Not saying we didn't speed things up however it was going to happen anyways as will another ice age.
The last comment was perhaps the most important "respect" Something that far too many of the world's population are lacking in so many areas. I think if we had reintroduced the meaning and understanding of what respect is, most of the world's problems would be solved.
It's fascinating to know that there are so many things that humans are not in control of. Today's population needs to be put in its place every now and then. By nature.
Click bait with lots of misinformation.
I’m confused. If the land that fell into the caldera is taking the magmas place, where did all the magma go?
If you say it explode outwards, it would have had to blow the land outwards first, therefor, there would not have been any land to fall into the caldera, so where did all the magma go?
"On the verge of eruption" is nothing but clickbait thumbnails. You should be ashamed of yourself!
It's pretty much a stochastic system at depth, what is there to understand?
Feed the data into AI and see what you get instead.. I guess we will need sensor operators and cable guys for that
So if humanity doesn't wipe itself out before this happens, seems like Mother Nature will do the job.
Drop the music next time. We don't need it.
I wish people understood just how absolutely unlikely yellowstone is to currently erupt. It doesnt have a high enough liquid content of its magma chamber, not nearly enough magmatic activity, and beyond that even if it did erupt, its erupted more than 3 times and most are minor eruptions. Yellowstone is just the latest in a series of hotspot related volcanic systems, and that hotspot could at any point stop feeding the yellowstone volcano and start forming a new volcanic complex. Or it could keep feeding yellowstone. But either way the time scale on which a VEI 8 eruption would occur is far from where we are now.
Also there are much more concerning "super" volcanoes in the world to be worried about than yellowstone, ones barely or rarely studied. Its one of, if not the most studied volcanic complex in the world, we would know if something truely concerning was going on below the surface.
Worry not as long as the lid rumbles, it is when it goes silent you need to worry because then the continental plate has moved so far over the hotspot that there is a firm lid on it, the condition required for a pressure build up for an explosion. Is this concept too simple to understand even for a highly qualified channel lik yours DW?
From what I've seen the movement has put the cladera farther from the largest magma chamber so if it does erupt again it won't be as bad as feared and not necessarily a "super" eruption but who really knows. Either way it proably won't be a great day if it does go off.
Yellowstone won’t pop in our life time
Why
Based on what evidence
@@MrLoobu it isnt capable of a significant eruption since most of the material in its magma chamber is currently in a solid state
@@mattekumba That's a theory, what evidence.
Well, that's reassuring if true. Am already worried with our own volcano here in Italy that's quite active and quite large, Campi Flegrei. We have family that lives there.
In the lower mainland of BC Canada the eruption of Mt St Helen was profound, flattening old growth forests raining down ash for a long time in various parts of Canada. It was akin to a very large hydrogen bomb without the radiation.
As I understand issues the west coast has been laying a large network of more modern kit and sensors along our coast giving us some notice before a portion of the continent is swallowed up
FEAR MONGERING / Entertainment. That's all. Works good for clicks, though.
people have been saying this is on the verge for as long as ive been alive , clicky click bait
It's fine guys, really. We have Pierce Brosnan and Tommy Lee Jones. We're good.
I absolutely hate speculation, conjecture and hyperbole.
7 years a neighbour's family was on holiday in Yellowstone. They were abducted, tortured, and slain by a group of unprovoked geese. The video of this unfortunate horror has been deemed to violent for social media. The video depicts the geese were gestering the family for food/ bread, and when the adult female motioned with her hand for them to shew away, they attacked. The geese joined their wings together in pairs of 8 to 12 plus and flew away with everyone in their family. They're skeletol remains were found in Argentina nearly a year later. They're flesh had been plucked clean from the bone. Several of the murdering geese posed for the cameras the family had on their persons following their murders
How is it on the verge???
Watch the movie The Road (2009) and you'll see what the consequences would be.
The aliens would prevent this from happening 😂
The alien will be The Combine
This sounds like a robot made it.
German accent is sometimes strong