Giant volcanoe, the Yellowstone Caldera, which lies beneath Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States, predictably erupted in the near future. If that happens, two-thirds of U.S. territory is no longer feared to be habitable. Daily Mail launch on Tuesday (01/25/2011) said, the giant Yellowstone volcano rising to the surface. Currently, approximately 2395 square kilometers of the surface area of caldera and resulted in some areas rose by 25 centimeters.Since the last three years, the giant volcano that rises above approximately 7.6 centimeters to sea level every year. This is the fastest increase since 1923 last. If the eruption, caldera is estimated to have a thousand times more power than the eruption of Mount St. Helen (USA), 1980 last. The experts indicated, the resulting caldera volcanic dust can reach 304 centimeters thick and cover areas as far as 1600 kilometers.
In addition, the effects will be far more devastating caldera volcanic eruptions than Iceland, Eyjafjallajokull, which could cause air traffic chaos, April 2010. Over the past 2.1 million years, Yellowstone Caldera erupted three times ever recorded. The last time was at 600 thousand years ago. However, according to experts, could be a caldera will erupt for the fourth time in the near future.
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There's no way to determine precisely when the explosion will occur but scientists say the ground around the volcano has started to swell, indicating subterranean activity. It was a similar volcano that helped bring an end to the dinosaurs and this one will 'wipe out the United States as we know it', Dr. Kaku says. But Dr. Kaku is also telling people not to panic because the volcano could blow at any moment...within the next one hundred thousand years.
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Is the world's largest super-volcano set to erupt for the first time in 600,000 years, wiping out two-thirds of the U.S.?
Yellowstone
When Yellowstone Explodes
Beneath Yellowstone Park a monstrous plume of hot rock is causing the earth to heave and tremble. Past volcanoes have erupted with a thousand times the power of Mount St. Helens. The future is anybody’s guess.
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On August 29, 1870, a 30-year-old Army lieutenant named Gustavus Doane, part of an exploratory expedition in the Yellowstone region in the territory of Wyoming, scrambled his way to the summit of Mount Washburn above the Yellowstone River. Looking to the south, he noticed that something was missing from a stretch of the Rocky Mountains: mountains. For miles and miles, the only elevations were in the distance, forming parentheses around a huge forested basin. Doane saw only one way to explain the void. "The great basin," he wrote, "has been formerly one vast crater of a now extinct volcano."Read the rest of this story click: National Geographic Society
January 27, 2011
Physicist Michio Kaku on supervolcano: 'all you can do is run'
Posted: 11:02 AM ET
There's trouble brewing underground and it's no joke; Physicist Michio Kaku says a supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park is due to erupt. 
There's no way to determine precisely when the explosion will occur but scientists say the ground around the volcano has started to swell, indicating subterranean activity. It was a similar volcano that helped bring an end to the dinosaurs and this one will 'wipe out the United States as we know it', Dr. Kaku says. But Dr. Kaku is also telling people not to panic because the volcano could blow at any moment...within the next one hundred thousand years.
Hear more from Kiran Chetry's interview with Dr. Michio Kaku:
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