THE YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO: THE THREAT UNDERNEATH AMERICA

Episode 12 | History's Mysteries — Natural ThreatsIn this Mystery episode we focus on the Yellowstone Supervolcano — a magma chamber 90 kilometers long under Yellowstone National Park that has produced three supereruptions in the past two million years, is continuously monitored, and will erupt again on a geological timescale that could be tomorrow or could be a hundred thousand years from now.This episode covers what the three previous supereruptions actually produced, what a modern Yellowstone supereruption would look like from the pyroclastic destruction through the volcanic winter, the current monitoring system and what it can and cannot do, and the argument alongside the Carrington Event from Season 3: there are known, well-documented, civilization-scale threats whose management is essentially impossible with current technology.The appropriate response is not paralysis. It is humility.#HistoryMystery #YellowstoneVolcano #Supervolcano #NaturalDisaster #MysteryPodcast