"... enough to fill 4 million olympic-size swimming pools." It's just not a science fact if you don't translate it into swimming pools or football fields.
@@Dispariabooks I saw this documentary about tsernobyl way back when.. they used bananas as the measurement for radiation still present there in different areas. Turns out The high potassium content of bananas makes them really glow ^^ Bananas could be the "Sievert" of science.
@@snowballcarrots I live in Wyoming. And when it happens nobody knows how much and far how long. Sorry no person can predict nature! It's been tried many times. Doesn't work that way. I will be one of the first to go with it but I'm not worried because there's nothing a human can do about it. The media can try to cover the facts but in the end mother nature always wins!
This is actually a huge fear of mine. I have fears, and I have phobias. But a supervalcano is literally my biggest fear... Ever since I first heard about it in high school, I’d been having sleepless nights and panic attacks whenever this subject was brought up. This video really really really helped... Thank you so much for putting me at ease after years of losing sleep....
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Don't worry about super-volcanoes, if one of them errupt you'll probably die, then you'll stop having to worry about it. It's a problem that solves itself.
actually, isn't most of the damage of a supervolcano from the ash clouds that blot out the sun for decades, leading to a volcanic winter of sorts. IIRC there was a 4 year ice age in the middle ages, i wanna say around 1500 that devastated europe from a volcanic eruption in near the inca's.
Or to put it differently: don't worry about something you can't forecast, stop, change, delay, weaken, redirect, escape, survive and prepare for in any adequate way.
Well so people don't know enything about Yellowstone or they lie and can't tell us enything because they can't even tell us if it would go off tomorrow or even three hours from now.
Volcano in Indonesia : I sleep Modern volcanologists : Hey guys he's sleeping ! Look ! No earthsakes, ground deformations and gaz leaks ! Perfectly safe ! Same volcano 5 days later : *lmao got you*
@@newjokeaccount We;; YelllowStone Is 10,000 Years Overdue. And Is Still Active But is not getting lava out in smaller eruptions so its gonna go boom. But its mostlikely going to be 5 Times Smaller Than La Garita And Still do lots of damage but it isint the worse we have gone through. We went through Toba and others. But life will recover. Its Not going to be a flood basalt so we good. *Hopefully* *Cries*
Scientist: "We don't need to worry about Yellowstone everything is fiiiiine!" Yellowstone puts the gun closer to the scientist head: "Keep talking or I'll blow you all away!"
Thank you. I have a gigantic fear of volcanoes, and since I live in Utah, Yellowstone going off could mean my death. I have lost SOOOO much sleep over it, and this really helps me feel better. So really, thank you, this video means a lot to me.
@@darcyhess3666 It's part of living on a volcanic planet. I don't think there's any imminent supervolcanos, so I think we're OK 👍 Volcanos have benefits as well, fertile soil, marine habitats, minerals like olivine etc. The biggest volcano is on the Mars - Olympus Mons.
I’m the EXACT SAME WAY!!! Bro when I heard of this volcano 🌋 a couple weeks ago, I was *SO SCARED!* like the kind of scared…when you start to cry a melt down. 😂 and I’ve done SOOOO much research and most websites say that it will erupt in about 90,000 years☺️ I’m so happy now that I know I’ll most likely be dead of old age :)
And that's because the Yellowstone volcano is located deep within a landmass where the magma contains high levels of melted continental rock which is much thicker than that of most other volcanic magmas, such as those of volcanoes in the sea or on continental margins. The thicker magma moves more sluggishly and better traps explosive gases from escaping. The trapped gases build up to very powerful levels. The volcanoes of Hawaii are on the complete opposite end of the scale, being much more fluid and easy flowing, allowing the various gases to escape. In the middle are the volcanoes whose magmas contain a mix of continental rock and oceanic rock. Oceanic rock is comprised of a dense/heavy rock type called basalt, while lighter continental rock is generally of a mineral composition more akin to granite, whether igneous, sedimentary, or metaphoric.
@Stupid Neko - Doesn't matter. As a one-time geology major and lifelong geology enthusiast, I was merely informing folks who might be interested and hadn't known the basic facts surrounding the various types of volcanoes and how it relates to their potential explosive energy.
@@tomc8617 I appreciate knowing more. I love geology, and you did a great job of explaining the difference between explosive and non explosive eruptions.
I want to say thank you, im someone who deals with really bad anxiety and depression, I heard about yellowstone and people claiming it could cause a extinction event and it sent me into a bad breakdown, this video explaining things so clearly has helped me calm down a lot. so thank you, your vid helped me a lot tonight and im really grateful.
Don't worry, I just watched how water causes explosive reaction in lava lake, so we could relieve the pressure of any super volcano by drilling in the chamber and dosing some water if magma decides to be stubborn. Also I'm just a regular person so imagine what highly educated person could come up with!
I view Yellowstone erupting the same way I view nuclear war - if it happens, I'll be dead. So there's really no point in worrying about it. Albeit Yellowstone would kill me much more slowly than a nuke would (unfortunately I live near a military base - if the blast radius doesn't get me, radiation poisoning will). Although as long as Old Faithful continues going off, an eruption is extremely unlikely. Yellowstone is constantly bleeding off pressure. I'd only start actually worrying about it if that stops.
Think of you been part of a species and include the timespan of its entire existence, the lifespan of an individual is like a blink of an eye for modern humans been around for some 8 light-years. So dont trip, its bigger than your anxiety can handle
@Raphaël Gaudet Yeah totally agree , can cause some people severe distress , too much doom and gloom in this world . This world will die in its own negativity before a volcano gets it .
meaning that they will ALL occur at the SAME TIME and just before the pending Zombie Apocalypse as if you really needed anything else to worry about and completely ruin your weekend plans...gonna ruin phone reception without question
@Andreiva there is some evidence that the meteor, impacting in mexico, either caused or exacerbated massive volcanic eruptions in india. India is the antipetal point of mexico (exact opposite side of the globe) so the seismic waves caused by the impact would have constructively interfered at that point. Some geologists think that was enough to disrupt and heat the upper mantel, lower crust to cause massive volcanism. This volcanism lead to what is called the Deccan Traps in india.
At circa minute 8 she states clearly that it won't happen anytime soon because the conditions aren't right. Maybe decades or centuries of warning time before it could happen....
Definitely one of the more accurate videos on Yellowstone. I'm fed up of the ridiculous hyperbole surrounding Yellowstone. Great that you mentioned the more typical eruptive patterns of Yellowstone, and the rather obvious warning signs that we'd have months to years before a very large eruption. One correction. The VEI scale has no limit (it doesn't stop at 8). There were almost certainly VEI 9+ eruptions early in Earth's history.
@@Sovereignty3 I suppose, technically speaking, sunspots use the same convection cycles as volcanoes but with hydrogen plasma which would put the Yellowstone supervolcano at 0.00000000125 sunspots. Hmmm, I think we might have found a problem with that idea. ;-)
Technically vei 9 eruptions have happened even well after earth's birth, 10 square km would be the technical requirement for a Vei 9 as the scale is logmorithic. Further more the siberian traps are estimate dto have spewed out over 1 million square kms of ejecta meaing it could technically count as a vei 10.
8:55 -- "So all of that seemingly dramatic activity isn't a sign of impending doom. It's a Tuesday." Today is *Wednesday!* OMG!!! If they got *that* wrong then this entire *video* must be wrong!! RUN!!! RUN LIKE HELL!!!! Yellowstone is *minutes* away from erupting!!!
Well at 11:52 she states "no super volcanic explosion has wiped out a species" yeah except the animals before the dinosaurs yes creatures existed before the dinosaurs, the Neandathols died out due to Campi Flegri errupting i think it was the second or 3rd major erruption it had. There were lies put into this video. Which tells me. They know something we don't.
poking about in dark places you have no place poking at/in or near is going to result in the very thing and event you're trying to prevent from happening in the first place...even a non volcanologist (but no less nerdy) like myself KNOWS that one...
You know, I wasn't really worried until I saw this at the top of my recommendations: "Times scientists radically misunderstood the world" followed lovingly by, "Deadliest substances on Earth".
This was uploaded mid way through June, now that it’s July, we know that during June there was a record breaking amount of tremors at the supervolcano. 🙂🙂
Along with increased lava flow under Yellowstone. So while I do NOT expect Yellowstone to EXPLODE--HER I have ZERO confidence in ONE word. As usual if the Government is behind any part of it--from a penny of the finding forward--- I trust nothing.
Yeah the YGO who is responsible for watching Yellowstone has a slew of contradicting statements on the area. But we are supposed to ignore their other statements and take this one as fact. Wtf
@@TheRickie41 what does that have to do with anything? Also the USGS and more importantly The YGO which is the part of the USGS that monitors Yellowstone has in the past ten years have stated multiple times that the magma chamber is in creasing enough at a depth of 22 miles to raise surface elevation 3 inches. Takes quite a bit of pressure to raise 22 miles of mantle 3 inches. They have also stated in the past that raising and subsidence of edges of a caldera is concerning and could be indicative of an eminent eruption. An eruption of any supervolcano would result in immediate death of up to 150 miles, delayed death of 1000 and global dimming that would result in crop loss world wide.
@@TheRickie41 if magnetic field reversal was the cause of supervolcano eruptions were fact then all of the eruptions of these calderas and the field reversals would be synchronous. They are in fact not on the same timeline to each other or to the field reversal. Take Yellowstone. Its last eruption was 650,000 years ago and its cycle is every 600,000 to 800,000 years. While the magnetic field reverses on average every 200,000 to 300,000 years. There has been zero evidence of all supervolcanoes erupting at once nor it coinciding with field reversals. Again. If the theory were true the last eruption would be synced with the last field reversal which it isnt.
5:15 Being on the US Pacific coast, all you've done is shifted all of my worry from "yellowstone exploding" into my already great "land sinking" fear :(
No it can't. Even the magna chamber that it sits on couldn't do that. A flood basalt event, like the one which first created that magma pocket, could do it. And one actually got really close but those were under exceptions circumstances. Look up the great dying.
I'm so glad I saw this video. I've been subscribed to your channel for a while now and I love all the videos. But there's so much misinformation out there about Yellowstone. Your videos always put things in a way that an everyday person, who isn't a scientist, can understand. Thank you for that :)
@sméagÖl nØt gÖllum like what? your hubris is amazing - the concept that an animal (or plant) species of the planet has significantly altered the evolution of the planet has never been proven to the point of hypothess.
@@chrish6412 not sure what you mean by "evolution of the planet", as planets are big lumps of rock that do not evolve, but species can _absolutely_ affect the evolution of other species. coevolution is a thing, and it is at least a hypothetical possibility that coevolution could occur on a planetwide scale. also not sure what you mean by "proven to the point of hypothess". i assume "hypothess" is a typo of "hypothesis", and by their very nature, hypotheses are not proven. they are educated guesses that are later proven or disproven.
I finished the title for you. "There's no need to worry about the Yellowstone super volcano, because we can't stop an eruption and when it goes, we're all going to be dead."
I was just thinking that I'm not sure I appreciate videos that make me even a little anxious about things I wasn't previously aware of to be worried about. x'D
I live in Alaska and we have dozens and sometimes hundreds of earthquakes a day, but we rarely feel them because they're relatively small. Newer people from less geologically active places usually feel anything over a 4 on the Richter scale. So you probably just didnt notice because they were small. Also, if you're interested in big volcanic eruptions you should check out the great eruption of 1912 which lasted 3 days and blocked out the sun for hundreds of miles.
"Just remember, it's natural for volcanoes to explode" Oh yeah, that really helps me. Excuse me for worrying about dying in a supervolcano explosion. So rude of me.
then there are the earthquakes that will split of Northwest and put is tinder the sea along with the plastic particulate everywhere now from broken down plastic causing illness and cancers
Instead of showing redundant text on screen of what we're already listening to her say it would be better to show what she's talking about. Like when she said the NA plate is moving but the magma hotspot isn't, creating a line of volcanoes, you could actually show this..
There is a volcano that is about 10x bigger than Yellowstone. It’s under the Pacific Ocean somewhat next to Japan. The crater is like 300+ miles, and the volcano covers an area of over 100,000 square miles. I don’t remember what it was called though.
Eyewitness on news interview: “Mr. Yellowstone Supervolcano was such a nice neighbor! So quiet, no wild earthquakes or lava spewing...no big steam jets. And then...he just went crazy!”
@Boop Loop oh boy, here comes the conspiracy theorists! Listen self appointed know it all, I agree on certain parts about channels putting forth false data, but most of the data in this particular video is actually very accurate. Until the magma chambers are 40% + molten....there is absolutely nothing to worry about. Even considered all that other crap you mentioned, if there's not enough magma to create far more gas and hence pressure.....a super eruption is not possible. Most likely we will see many small eruptions over 100s of years before a buildup to a super eruption. Also, THERE IS NO TIMETABLE for a super eruption. I'm so sick and tired of people saying IT'S OVERDUE!! Like it's a clock. Many factors have to align for it to happen. For whatever reason, the chambers are not heating up as fast as they did for other eruptions. So for brain cells sake....drop the stupid conspiracy theory. Or just post all your "factual scientific study" which doesn't come from a single volcanologist that studies Yellowstone.....
Shouldn't we be more worried that the magma chamber finds itself under heavy, new geology rather than relieved that it's leaving it's old caldera? It's the heat source we are worried about, not the leftover caldera.
my anxiety has been really bad today since i thought of Yellowstone volcano. this video really helped calm it. you have no idea how much this helped. thank you!
That would make things worse... much worse... when water and magma meet it usually triggers a very powerful eruption/steam explosion, 10's of times more powerful than a dry eruption. That's why the volcanoes on the Ring of Fire are so explosive, all the water seeping into the subduction zones from the Pacific Ocean.
@@celairgilfaenmirion not to mention that rerouting the ocean all the way up to Yellowstone would be an unimaginable undertaking, and all of the residual salt would poison the land for years.
@@celairgilfaenmirion they need to make an obsidian dome first since the only way to break obsidian is with a diamond pickaxe, or a high efficiency iron pickaxe
Jesus christ. You don't need to give the guy a wiki summary of vowels and prepositions in every god damn comment you see. Typos exist. The guy was making a joke. Grow up.
Thank you for this video! Great information that isn’t meant to terrify people. I’ve seen so many videos were it feels like the aim is to scare people who may not fully grasp how any of this works.
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Dat disembodied hand pushing the ball convinced me
Make me.
What about 2012 Yellowstone eruption? If the prominence
had hit the earth ''harder'', would that increase the chance of a super-eruption?
SciShow
She said "Yellowstone's nether regions"... Hahahah!
Sorry.
Have this lady host every episode. She does a great job
"... enough to fill 4 million olympic-size swimming pools."
It's just not a science fact if you don't translate it into swimming pools or football fields.
Or bananas (BED), because they're little yellow slivers of science.
@@Dispariabooks I saw this documentary about tsernobyl way back when.. they used bananas as the measurement for radiation still present there in different areas. Turns out The high potassium content of bananas makes them really glow ^^
Bananas could be the "Sievert" of science.
The dingo fence in Australia is longer than two football fields. - Half As Interesting
@Satanic Cabal Longer than a Toyota Corolla. - RealLifeLore
@Tri-green-angles green triangles Pool: 50 meter by 25 meters by 2 meters deep.
"Enough to fill 4 milliion olympic sized swimming pools"
What am i supposed to do with this visual?
She's probably an American.
And who did the math to figure that out?
I can't really visualize 4 million of anything, so I'm not sure how that comparison supposed to help me lol
Just imagine 2 million pools filled with 2 pools each.
Take up swimming?
With my luck the one time I visit Yellowstone would be the time that it erupts.
iiMooseii just don’t go, and it will never erupt brother
People are worried about it now
iiMooseii dude that’s what I’m saying!
Rytre I won’t go. The fate of the world is in my hands.
iiMooseii haha, I believe in you
*3019:* watches video
Yellowstone erupts while watching
*I THOUGHT YOU SAID-*
Change it to 3020
This is an underrated comment this is hilarious
Doombeanz I correction April 2020
Thank God I wouldn't be alive
Um sorry to say but it is already 2000 years over due so it can erupt any day
Just pour water on volcanoes. It'll turn the lava to cobblestone
Obsidian
No, we just have to dig down deep and fill them full of sand.
Harvard wants to know your location.
@@zacharyhandy9606 It would only be obsidian if the water touched the lava source block. Lava comes from the mantle, so
So it could still erupt next year.......
Yeah, "We'll be totally fine".
That's probably what the Dinosaurs said, too.
They probably said something like *AAAAAuuuuUUUuuUGgGgGgHHhhHhAAAAAAEeEeeeEeeEEUUuUuuuUUUuuUuGHh*
@@timmydirtyrat6015 LOL. That is exactly what they said.
Thats whats she said lol
@@Wady-uf4wd Did you stab her?
As the dad said in Dinosaurs there would be nowhere to move.
Famous last words of some guy in Pompeii...
“we don’t have to worry about that volcano 🌋 “ 💁🏻 lol
Also most of the people didn't even know it was a volcano because it hadn't had any activity in almost 300 years.
KSWfarms When Pompeii erupted, the Latin language didn’t even have a word for volcano yet because they’d never experienced an eruption before.
@@snowballcarrots god is angry, ahhhh!
Mt. Vesuvius: ........
@@snowballcarrots I live in Wyoming. And when it happens nobody knows how much and far how long. Sorry no person can predict nature! It's been tried many times. Doesn't work that way. I will be one of the first to go with it but I'm not worried because there's nothing a human can do about it. The media can try to cover the facts but in the end mother nature always wins!
This is actually a huge fear of mine. I have fears, and I have phobias. But a supervalcano is literally my biggest fear... Ever since I first heard about it in high school, I’d been having sleepless nights and panic attacks whenever this subject was brought up. This video really really really helped... Thank you so much for putting me at ease after years of losing sleep....
You need counseling
We all die no matter what... The sooner you accept your destiny, the better your life will be.
I used to be the same but also with asteroids and nukes and canary island tsunamis
LOL we all gonna die so dont worry
Life is 100% fatal 100% of the time . I recommend reading B asic I nstructions B efore L eaving E. arth
The joke's on you, SciShow: my anxiety tells me I gotta worry about EVERYTHING!
😭😭😭
Too true
Now we know why they created SciShow Psych :D
How about this: now you can worry about all the lost life time you spent worrying about supervolcanoes :D
@@musgodness ???
Suck it science, I have neurodivergent superpower anxiety.
Oh, good, I don't have to worry about a volcano. *gets hit by bus*
Eric Alley 😂😂😂
Chelsea Kevorkian ikr! These Og comments and their replies are so funny! XD
@@SyukriLajin Those dangerous toilet paper roll machines have wiped out millions of people.
RIP
what like half a million people killed in auto accidents a year in the world
Scientist: No need to worry
Yellowstone: You should
😂😂😂😂😂
2020: you know the rules and so do i
@Madara Uchiwa well that was a frick up
Doesn't mean we have to listen
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I feel a Rick Astley tune coming on. 😎
Mother nature's never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down...
Don't worry about super-volcanoes, if one of them errupt you'll probably die, then you'll stop having to worry about it.
It's a problem that solves itself.
actually, isn't most of the damage of a supervolcano from the ash clouds that blot out the sun for decades, leading to a volcanic winter of sorts.
IIRC there was a 4 year ice age in the middle ages, i wanna say around 1500 that devastated europe from a volcanic eruption in near the inca's.
Or to put it differently: don't worry about something you can't forecast, stop, change, delay, weaken, redirect, escape, survive and prepare for in any adequate way.
"Modern problems require modern solutions"
But I'm afraid of dying. I know it's inevitable, but that doesn't make me feel any better.
Well so people don't know enything about Yellowstone or they lie and can't tell us enything because they can't even tell us if it would go off tomorrow or even three hours from now.
*Yellowstone suprrvolcano erupts in the middle of this video*
Probably maybe one day. Crazy thought, that someone might be watching this in the next 30 years when it happens. 😂
oops
"Nether regions" at 5:50
The term super valcano is made up
"Dont worry about supervolcano's"
2020: *I'm about to ruin this whole mans career *
Was thinking the same thing when this video got suggested in 2020
Womans
So woman's will be safe?
And then it never happened
Well, there are earthquakes now in yellowstone
Will be staying inside Yellowstone for the fourth time in just 2 weeks! I love it there! 😁
Did you get to go on your trip?
Max Oakland he died doing what he loved..... hot potting.
Omg exxotikgaming! I honestly did not expect to find you here
Exxotik???
Volcano in Indonesia : I sleep
Modern volcanologists : Hey guys he's sleeping ! Look ! No earthsakes, ground deformations and gaz leaks ! Perfectly safe !
Same volcano 5 days later : *lmao got you*
It’s when it becomes less active we need to worry. Saint Helens grew in size then went quite. Going quite is what builds it up.
@@newjokeaccount We;; YelllowStone Is 10,000 Years Overdue. And Is Still Active But is not getting lava out in smaller eruptions so its gonna go boom. But its mostlikely going to be 5 Times Smaller Than La Garita And Still do lots of damage but it isint the worse we have gone through. We went through Toba and others. But life will recover. Its Not going to be a flood basalt so we good. *Hopefully* *Cries*
You dont need to worry.
*flex tape solves it all*
Shark Roblox & More flex tape the pit and then boom everyone is safe
Supervolcano: I blew this country in half!
Guys stop being idiots flex tape would never help flex tape is dumb I hate when people still do those jokes
@@keniffffstrodd2212 what about flex glue?
your all silly .you got to us flubber
Scientist: "We don't need to worry about Yellowstone everything is fiiiiine!"
Yellowstone puts the gun closer to the scientist head: "Keep talking or I'll blow you all away!"
Oop-
@@rainecore oof!
5:49
“A study explored Yellowstone’s nether regions”
Yeah, and then Yellowstone sued for sexual harassment.
Jawbreaker The Hyaenodon ...Yark!!
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Thank you. I have a gigantic fear of volcanoes, and since I live in Utah, Yellowstone going off could mean my death. I have lost SOOOO much sleep over it, and this really helps me feel better. So really, thank you, this video means a lot to me.
A supervolcano anywhere is going to effect the entire planet. For a very long time.
@@sixthsenseamelia4695 cool?
@@darcyhess3666 It's part of living on a volcanic planet. I don't think there's any imminent supervolcanos, so I think we're OK 👍 Volcanos have benefits as well, fertile soil, marine habitats, minerals like olivine etc. The biggest volcano is on the Mars - Olympus Mons.
I’m the EXACT SAME WAY!!! Bro when I heard of this volcano 🌋 a couple weeks ago, I was *SO SCARED!* like the kind of scared…when you start to cry a melt down. 😂 and I’ve done SOOOO much research and most websites say that it will erupt in about 90,000 years☺️ I’m so happy now that I know I’ll most likely be dead of old age :)
"I'm not like the other volcanoes"
And that's because the Yellowstone volcano is located deep within a landmass where the magma contains high levels of melted continental rock which is much thicker than that of most other volcanic magmas, such as those of volcanoes in the sea or on continental margins. The thicker magma moves more sluggishly and better traps explosive gases from escaping. The trapped gases build up to very powerful levels. The volcanoes of Hawaii are on the complete opposite end of the scale, being much more fluid and easy flowing, allowing the various gases to escape. In the middle are the volcanoes whose magmas contain a mix of continental rock and oceanic rock. Oceanic rock is comprised of a dense/heavy rock type called basalt, while lighter continental rock is generally of a mineral composition more akin to granite, whether igneous, sedimentary, or metaphoric.
@Stupid Neko - Doesn't matter. As a one-time geology major and lifelong geology enthusiast, I was merely informing folks who might be interested and hadn't known the basic facts surrounding the various types of volcanoes and how it relates to their potential explosive energy.
@@tomc8617 r/whooosh
@@tomc8617 I appreciate knowing more. I love geology, and you did a great job of explaining the difference between explosive and non explosive eruptions.
“I’m literally built different”
I want to say thank you, im someone who deals with really bad anxiety and depression, I heard about yellowstone and people claiming it could cause a extinction event and it sent me into a bad breakdown, this video explaining things so clearly has helped me calm down a lot. so thank you, your vid helped me a lot tonight and im really grateful.
Don't worry, I just watched how water causes explosive reaction in lava lake, so we could relieve the pressure of any super volcano by drilling in the chamber and dosing some water if magma decides to be stubborn. Also I'm just a regular person so imagine what highly educated person could come up with!
Don't you get that we are in an extinction event now!?
I view Yellowstone erupting the same way I view nuclear war - if it happens, I'll be dead. So there's really no point in worrying about it. Albeit Yellowstone would kill me much more slowly than a nuke would (unfortunately I live near a military base - if the blast radius doesn't get me, radiation poisoning will).
Although as long as Old Faithful continues going off, an eruption is extremely unlikely. Yellowstone is constantly bleeding off pressure. I'd only start actually worrying about it if that stops.
Think of you been part of a species and include the timespan of its entire existence, the lifespan of an individual is like a blink of an eye for modern humans been around for some 8 light-years. So dont trip, its bigger than your anxiety can handle
@@cidchase2689 Correction: WE are the extinction event.
Volcanic Explosivity Index would be a great technical term for people with chronic Anger issues.
Or flatulence
@@13bgunbunny42 Haha that might be even better! You win Sir!
SciShow: There's no need to worry about super volcanoes.
2020: I'm about to end this channels whole career.
Ladies and gentlemen i proudly present: the kid that steals comments!
@Raphaël Gaudet Your comment didnt age too well it seems.
@Raphaël Gaudet Yeah totally agree , can cause some people severe distress , too much doom and gloom in this world . This world will die in its own negativity before a volcano gets it .
@@zedantXiang Yeah how .
Raphaël Gaudet k
2020:
"fine,I'll do it myself"
2020: nah im stopping these jokes to not scare people
Thanos is coming?!?!
Who's here because of the 6.5 quake in Idaho tonight
I am. I definitely am here because of that nonsense.
NANDAYO
@@shoryuken0x PENCE KUN
Here I am :)
Yep
Video: “in several thousand years, yellow stone will start stirring, but doomsday is not near!”
Yellowstone: “Try me at 10 am tomorrow.”
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"Your not going to die, go back to sleep"
Government: good job yt algorithms we are safe now
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It's better to not worry about something you can't stop
Thanos: *I Am Inevitable*
Yellowstone: *hold my lava*
Thor: I told you you'd die for that
Thanos: hold my head
@@R6-D2 😂😂
I am actually ineviteble
Thanos how are you alive?!?
@@gavsav3948 im dead and alive im just in the soulworld
“The highest an eruption can score on the VEI is a magnitude 8”
Toba: You gotta bump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers
“ don’t worry baby, keep going”, said the volcano, “ I won’t erupt”
and 9 months later a baby super volcano is born
Who's the mother lol? XD
Lake toba the origin of how they met lake toba was walking down the street and yellowstone saw her
And he was like DaM ShE ThIcC bOi
Not gonna lie, I would go see "The Avengers VS. Super Volcano"
Hulk used Smash.
Smash was ineffective.
Volcano used Erupt.
Erupt was Super Effective!
It does sound like a super villain name.
Might as well throw in sharknado too
That would actually be a sick movie. Just fighting a inanimate thing
They'd get heat man to swim down there and uh plug it up.
-Pandemic!!!
SciShow: Dont worry.
Asteroids!!!
SciShow: Dont worry..
Supervolcano!!!
SciShow: Dont worry...
That’s why you DON’T believe any video that says don’t worry.
Dont worry but you should worry it will go off some bay but maybe even tomorrow or even 50 years no one knows.
Manmade climate change?
Do worry.
Worry not what you have no control of
meaning that they will ALL occur at the SAME TIME and just before the pending Zombie Apocalypse as if you really needed anything else to worry about and completely ruin your weekend plans...gonna ruin phone reception without question
Thanks for a breath of fresh air regards Yellowstone and for posting some real science, not sensationalism and fear mongering. Keep up the good work!
Scishow: don't worry about volcanoes, they can't hurt you
Dinosaurs: am I a joke to you
Newby Ton Have you not seen all the “short arm” T-Rex jokes?
The great dying: "DON'T FORGOT ABOUT ME!!!!"
@Andreiva the meteorite caused volcanos to blow up
@Andreiva there is some evidence that the meteor, impacting in mexico, either caused or exacerbated massive volcanic eruptions in india. India is the antipetal point of mexico (exact opposite side of the globe) so the seismic waves caused by the impact would have constructively interfered at that point. Some geologists think that was enough to disrupt and heat the upper mantel, lower crust to cause massive volcanism. This volcanism lead to what is called the Deccan Traps in india.
@@samuelmatheson9655 Great Dying: you call those supervolcanoes? Lol
There are some people who got calmed down by the beginning of this video, then she was like: “BUT WHAT IF,” and all of that comfort went away.
At circa minute 8 she states clearly that it won't happen anytime soon because the conditions aren't right. Maybe decades or centuries of warning time before it could happen....
Definitely one of the more accurate videos on Yellowstone. I'm fed up of the ridiculous hyperbole surrounding Yellowstone. Great that you mentioned the more typical eruptive patterns of Yellowstone, and the rather obvious warning signs that we'd have months to years before a very large eruption.
One correction. The VEI scale has no limit (it doesn't stop at 8). There were almost certainly VEI 9+ eruptions early in Earth's history.
Hyperbole - a sporting event even bigger than the Superbowl! 3 blue whales or 2.8 double decker buses bigger!
;-)
wouldn't that the largest value for it being to scale to the largest volcano eruptions which don't have to be on earth.
@@Sovereignty3 I suppose, technically speaking, sunspots use the same convection cycles as volcanoes but with hydrogen plasma which would put the Yellowstone supervolcano at 0.00000000125 sunspots. Hmmm, I think we might have found a problem with that idea.
;-)
Technically vei 9 eruptions have happened even well after earth's birth, 10 square km would be the technical requirement for a Vei 9 as the scale is logmorithic. Further more the siberian traps are estimate dto have spewed out over 1 million square kms of ejecta meaing it could technically count as a vei 10.
yellowstone: I AM IN PERFECT POSITION AND READY TO EXPLODE
tectonic shift: how about no
so funny
Or: How I stopped worrying and learned to love the supervolcano.
Bask in its glory
Doctor Weirdlove
We'll meet again some ashfall day.
Doktor Merkwürdigliebe
8:55 -- "So all of that seemingly dramatic activity isn't a sign of impending doom. It's a Tuesday."
Today is *Wednesday!* OMG!!! If they got *that* wrong then this entire *video* must be wrong!! RUN!!! RUN LIKE HELL!!!! Yellowstone is *minutes* away from erupting!!!
That sounds like a typical Monday to me.
Now it's Thursday
God will stop it!
Well at 11:52 she states "no super volcanic explosion has wiped out a species" yeah except the animals before the dinosaurs yes creatures existed before the dinosaurs, the Neandathols died out due to Campi Flegri errupting i think it was the second or 3rd major erruption it had.
There were lies put into this video. Which tells me. They know something we don't.
@@jameshumphrey9939 Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Where's the Little Man who lives in the Clouds when you need him.
Yellowstone: Exists
Tectonic Plates: I'm about to end this man's whole career.
"You dont need to worry about mount Yellowstone"
2020: lmao, yeet
You leave Yellowstone's netherregions alone! Everything has a right to privacy, you Peeping Toms!
Show me where the vulcanologist probed you!
If the netherregion can't hold it in any longer you better start worrying. It will erupt. Even earth needs a release
Leave Britney Alone!
poking about in dark places you have no place poking at/in or near is going to result in the very thing and event you're trying to prevent from happening in the first place...even a non volcanologist (but no less nerdy) like myself KNOWS that one...
Literally reading this comment as she said nether regions
Title: Don't worry about Yellowstone volcano
Me: *A B A N D O N ALL H O P E. FLEE FLEEE FOR ALL YOUR LIVES*
ShrekMAN Castle i know you are kidding, but i thats tru
U mean home?
Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace space space space space space
Space core gang
Wow thats a really funny comment you should b proud
Scishow: you don't need to worry.
Yellowstone SV: hold my helium-4.
2020 is making me more and more paranoid
Van Noe If we still alive, ill be there aswell
Your comment is gone, i will always remember you 😢 Know that kept my promise
I love you guys so much, you have no idea how anxious I've been about this for over a year
Go be anxious about climate change.
@@generationfallout5189 Who said I wasn't?
You know, I wasn't really worried until I saw this at the top of my recommendations:
"Times scientists radically misunderstood the world" followed lovingly by,
"Deadliest substances on Earth".
This was uploaded mid way through June, now that it’s July, we know that during June there was a record breaking amount of tremors at the supervolcano. 🙂🙂
Along with increased lava flow under Yellowstone. So while I do NOT expect Yellowstone to EXPLODE--HER I have ZERO confidence in ONE word. As usual if the Government is behind any part of it--from a penny of the finding forward--- I trust nothing.
@@TheRickie41 there is another volcano nearby tho, the magma have gone there
Yeah the YGO who is responsible for watching Yellowstone has a slew of contradicting statements on the area.
But we are supposed to ignore their other statements and take this one as fact.
Wtf
@@TheRickie41 what does that have to do with anything?
Also the USGS and more importantly The YGO which is the part of the USGS that monitors Yellowstone has in the past ten years have stated multiple times that the magma chamber is in creasing enough at a depth of 22 miles to raise surface elevation 3 inches. Takes quite a bit of pressure to raise 22 miles of mantle 3 inches. They have also stated in the past that raising and subsidence of edges of a caldera is concerning and could be indicative of an eminent eruption. An eruption of any supervolcano would result in immediate death of up to 150 miles, delayed death of 1000 and global dimming that would result in crop loss world wide.
@@TheRickie41 if magnetic field reversal was the cause of supervolcano eruptions were fact then all of the eruptions of these calderas and the field reversals would be synchronous. They are in fact not on the same timeline to each other or to the field reversal.
Take Yellowstone. Its last eruption was 650,000 years ago and its cycle is every 600,000 to 800,000 years.
While the magnetic field reverses on average every 200,000 to 300,000 years.
There has been zero evidence of all supervolcanoes erupting at once nor it coinciding with field reversals. Again.
If the theory were true the last eruption would be synced with the last field reversal which it isnt.
Me: oh awesome. So glad they made this
My Anxiety: hold on, don’t calm down just yet I’ll be the judge of this
5:15 Being on the US Pacific coast, all you've done is shifted all of my worry from "yellowstone exploding" into my already great "land sinking" fear :(
Super Volcano: I can end all life on the planet!!!
Oil Execs:Already got you beat kiddo.
Umbra Opus my eyes won’t roll any harder.
The Oil companies didn't help, they kinda Fracked up .
No it can't. Even the magna chamber that it sits on couldn't do that. A flood basalt event, like the one which first created that magma pocket, could do it. And one actually got really close but those were under exceptions circumstances. Look up the great dying.
Yea, no.
I'm so glad I saw this video. I've been subscribed to your channel for a while now and I love all the videos. But there's so much misinformation out there about Yellowstone. Your videos always put things in a way that an everyday person, who isn't a scientist, can understand. Thank you for that :)
Yellowstone volcano: exists
My volcano for a science project: This explosion will be legendary
Muscle Hank can keep the supervolcano from erupting with his bare hands
i have faith in Chuck Norris. thou shalt worship no other.
Reason not to worry: There's nothing we could do about it anyway.
NASA actually trying to slow down the process. And it probably wont erupt anytime in our lifetime either way
Raphaël Gaudet Nothing you can do if it goes off
Raphaël Gaudet really?
@sméagÖl nØt gÖllum like what? your hubris is amazing - the concept that an animal (or plant) species of the planet has significantly altered the evolution of the planet has never been proven to the point of hypothess.
@@chrish6412 not sure what you mean by "evolution of the planet", as planets are big lumps of rock that do not evolve, but species can _absolutely_ affect the evolution of other species. coevolution is a thing, and it is at least a hypothetical possibility that coevolution could occur on a planetwide scale.
also not sure what you mean by "proven to the point of hypothess". i assume "hypothess" is a typo of "hypothesis", and by their very nature, hypotheses are not proven. they are educated guesses that are later proven or disproven.
This was posted just in time for my Geology class. Awesome, SciShow and thanks! Keep on science-ing!
Thanks!
I finished the title for you.
"There's no need to worry about the Yellowstone super volcano, because we can't stop an eruption and when it goes, we're all going to be dead."
And we are all going to go from something. 😲
Don't worry, be happy.
@@SpaceCattttt Ayyyy peace out bro
@@Karasu_042 There's no such thing. There's volcanic winter, and I suppose Spock might say that there's Vulcan winter as well.
RING The Bell , early dismissal soon- Peace.
I love videos explaining why I shouldn’t be anxious about something I was previously somewhat anxious about
you live a life of privilege Maxx
I was just thinking that I'm not sure I appreciate videos that make me even a little anxious about things I wasn't previously aware of to be worried about. x'D
I was at Yellow Stone 2 years ago when the news claimed 430 "earthquakes" over a week. I didn't feel a single one and old faithful was right on time.
I live in Alaska and we have dozens and sometimes hundreds of earthquakes a day, but we rarely feel them because they're relatively small. Newer people from less geologically active places usually feel anything over a 4 on the Richter scale. So you probably just didnt notice because they were small. Also, if you're interested in big volcanic eruptions you should check out the great eruption of 1912 which lasted 3 days and blocked out the sun for hundreds of miles.
"So all of that seemingly dramatic activity isn't a sign of impending doom; it's a Tuesday." (LOVE. THIS.)
"IS THAT A SIGN OF OUR IMPENDING DOOM, THE DESTRUCTION OF SOCIETY AND THE END OF MAN!!! "
"Nah man, its just Tuesday . . . ." ..
Oh, so M. Bison is visiting.
That can't be a good sign...
Sean McDonald ñy
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Did you get consent from the volcano before examining its nether regions?
Cariss Stewart, well, it didn’t say no, which is enough for a lot of guys.
yes from Trump
@@evilsharkey8954 I had a Friend who didn't get consent to Explore Nether Regions, He got 10 years in the Pen.
Kevin Perry, he shoulda asked first! Humans are much better about saying yes or no than volcanoes are.
SciShow is liberal... They don't need consent. 🤣
Super volcano: "You're not dealing with the average volcano"
Uhgene Ignorian I have ascended beyond the level of a normal valcono.
"Just remember, it's natural for volcanoes to explode"
Oh yeah, that really helps me. Excuse me for worrying about dying in a supervolcano explosion. So rude of me.
Init lol🤷♂️😂
Thank you for this. Yellowstone seriously kept me up at night sometimes. Especially after any nearby earthquakes.
they are very flashy but not nearly as cataclysmic as they might sound.
mass coronal ejections on the other hand... dystopia material.
then there are the earthquakes that will split of Northwest and put is tinder the sea along with the plastic particulate everywhere now from broken down plastic causing illness and cancers
Title: “You don’t need to worry about Yellowstone
Supervalcano: Hold my toxic gases
*La Garita Caldera Wants to know your location*
lmao
@@zjean3417 good thing that monster is extinct.
Yellowstone: *I'm about to erupt*
Scientists: No you're not.
Me: I wonder who's right?
You’re basically Justin Y’s cousin
Yellowstone is
I’m so grateful for this video!
Pro tip, when they tell you not to panic..... THATS WHEN YOU RUN!!!!!
But...where to?
@@pamilawilson8944
Middle east
What’s a 2012 quote doing here?
@@liquidphilosopher1816 Good Idea, Move closer to a flood basalt sleeping volcano. Nice!
Lol
TwoWordsForYa I came because of 2012
Yeah I’m finna explode just to show you that it isn’t just “magma build up” I’m a nice guy but now I’m going to blow tomorrow at 12:37 P.M.
LMAO. Please don't though. I want to visit Yellowstone. Please wait to explode until I'm safely back in New England.
I challenge you to No Nut Millennium.
Come on now it’s been 6 months I’m still waiting! I have tests I don’t want to do.
If you do I can Just ORA ORA my way through the ground my way into China
Mt. Vesuvius: I'm always the first large one recorded buddy, back off.
Instead of showing redundant text on screen of what we're already listening to her say it would be better to show what she's talking about. Like when she said the NA plate is moving but the magma hotspot isn't, creating a line of volcanoes, you could actually show this..
Amy: You don't need to worry about super-volcanoes
Sheldon: Uh huh ............ooh look, an asteroid. 🌎 Byeee.
If you also love Young Sheldon, we are now automatically best friends
Well thanks for ticking off one Doomsday possibility. I still have about 100 other ones though
A nuclear winter is more likely 😔
@@misszakaya1393 no it isnt
@RJ you may think it isn't but I'm not bout to argue with you lol 😅
Fank Daggot Humanity is its own extinction event.
@@misszakaya1393 no
I'm not losing sleep over the fear of super volcanoes. I'm losing sleep to scissor videos...
my excuse for drinking too much for the past few years has literally been " well yellowstone may explode soon so live for the moment" ... great
They need to apologize to your liver. I’m sorry for those lost times my friend
There is a volcano that is about 10x bigger than Yellowstone. It’s under the Pacific Ocean somewhat next to Japan. The crater is like 300+ miles, and the volcano covers an area of over 100,000 square miles. I don’t remember what it was called though.
I love that line, ""It's not a sign of impending doom, it's a Tuesday"! I really enjoy these videos, very informative and entertaining!
Supervolcano: IM GONNA ERUPT!
any state to the right of Kentucky: what’s that? Couldn’t hear you over my SAFETY
DDandJ People who don’t live in New England are quaking rn lmao
Eyewitness on news interview: “Mr. Yellowstone Supervolcano was such a nice neighbor! So quiet, no wild earthquakes or lava spewing...no big steam jets. And then...he just went crazy!”
Update: Mr Yellowstone will kill all of his close neighbors before they ever have a chance to talk to the media...
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mt. Vesuvius: Haha.. Me too..
I read the title, and as I clicked to watch this, my brain said "...because each of us only live about 60 to 100 years anyway."
Who’s here after there was earthquakes near Yellowstone???
Raphaël Gaudet oh ok. THX
@Raphaël Gaudet We really need to spread the word about that, since people are getting unnecessary worried yet again about it.
Raphaël Gaudet my bad. Didn’t mean to annoy you. Even though I’m not panicking.
Raphaël Gaudet ok
@Boop Loop oh boy, here comes the conspiracy theorists! Listen self appointed know it all, I agree on certain parts about channels putting forth false data, but most of the data in this particular video is actually very accurate. Until the magma chambers are 40% + molten....there is absolutely nothing to worry about. Even considered all that other crap you mentioned, if there's not enough magma to create far more gas and hence pressure.....a super eruption is not possible. Most likely we will see many small eruptions over 100s of years before a buildup to a super eruption. Also, THERE IS NO TIMETABLE for a super eruption. I'm so sick and tired of people saying IT'S OVERDUE!! Like it's a clock. Many factors have to align for it to happen. For whatever reason, the chambers are not heating up as fast as they did for other eruptions. So for brain cells sake....drop the stupid conspiracy theory. Or just post all your "factual scientific study" which doesn't come from a single volcanologist that studies Yellowstone.....
......this made me worry even more especially when you say dont worry about it
“We’ll be fine”
Tell that to the local wildlife who have front row seats.
I hate to break it to you, but people live in Wyoming too. Look, we even have the Internet. 😉
Mt. Vesuvius: hehehehehehehehe
I'm not worried about it because when it happens I won't have time to suffer. Mother nature always wins!
@@mytmouse57 where do you live in Wyoming?
307 Wyoming 4E You will have time to suffer, about 45 minutes of choking on ashy gases, or years of starvation depending on where you are.
Shouldn't we be more worried that the magma chamber finds itself under heavy, new geology rather than relieved that it's leaving it's old caldera? It's the heat source we are worried about, not the leftover caldera.
Anibal Fermaint Gonzalez I was thinking that too, but that’ll be a problem for like 10,000 years from now...
my anxiety has been really bad today since i thought of Yellowstone volcano. this video really helped calm it. you have no idea how much this helped. thank you!
Same
Yellowstone: *erupts*
Me, a Kansas resident: Well, guess I'll die *Turns on Country Roads as I slowly sufficate*
This video was sponsored by: supervolcanoes
*rumbling intensifies*
Spookipooh and the secret government
bro, bro, bro, just reroute an ocean through the volcanic vent causing the magma to chill and solidify
Nobel prize please.
I did that to Hell in Terraria and the entire ocean evaporated :(
That would make things worse... much worse... when water and magma meet it usually triggers a very powerful eruption/steam explosion, 10's of times more powerful than a dry eruption. That's why the volcanoes on the Ring of Fire are so explosive, all the water seeping into the subduction zones from the Pacific Ocean.
@@celairgilfaenmirion not to mention that rerouting the ocean all the way up to Yellowstone would be an unimaginable undertaking, and all of the residual salt would poison the land for years.
@@celairgilfaenmirion they need to make an obsidian dome first since the only way to break obsidian is with a diamond pickaxe, or a high efficiency iron pickaxe
I actually went to Yellowstone over the summer. And it was really cool! And I got to see steamboat geyser go off.
Just build an obsidian dome.
You can't break obsidian unless you have a diamond pickaxe
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DucQy
It only has to precede a word that makes a vowel sound. For example, "it's an honour to be here" or "it's a once in a lifetime experience."
Jesus christ. You don't need to give the guy a wiki summary of vowels and prepositions in every god damn comment you see. Typos exist. The guy was making a joke. Grow up.
There’s actually a place called Obsidian Dome near Mammoth Lakes in California
@@Shtephfano The guy making the joke was right, it was the dickhead trying to correct him that was wrong. Lmfao
Half way through this video U.S. Government completed another Yellowstone super irruption underground survival bunker.
Kristen McNeil : True stuff
That sounds like something a supervolcano would say. 🤔
Sounds like something a comment stealer would say. 🤔
@@rr_gaming4954 lol
Thank you. Well presented, informative and easy to follow.
"enough to fill 400 million olympic sized pools " - I totatly understand exactly how much this is
i am expecting Yellowstone to go off well i'm watching this video
Thank you for this video! Great information that isn’t meant to terrify people. I’ve seen so many videos were it feels like the aim is to scare people who may not fully grasp how any of this works.