The risk of activating super volcanoes can kill millions

Experts are worried that Yellowstone - one of the largest super volcanoes in the world is likely to explode in the near future.

Experts' statistics show that volcanic eruptions are happening at the highest frequency during the past 300 years. But more frightening, scientists are afraid that the possibility of a super volcano erupting, killing millions of lives is entirely possible.

Specifically, experts from the European Institute of Science said that volcanoes - especially super-volcanoes like Yellowstone - are more at risk of causing disaster to life on Earth than disasters such as meteorites and earthquakes. , nuclear war, climate change.

Simulate what happens if Yellowstone - one of the planet's largest craters explodes.

Experts say the most dangerous mountains today are: Yellowstone (USA), Vesuvius (Italy), and Popocatéptel (Mexico). As long as one of them is activated, millions of people will die, and Earth's atmosphere will be seriously polluted.

According to records, the risk of these "explosion" mountains in the next 80 years falls between 5 and 10%. It looks small, but in fact this is quite a large rate. In it, Yellowstone was judged to be able to explode any time in the next 70 years and consequently the destruction of the entire Western United States.

There are very few options for dealing with these timed bombs.

In the past there were many eruptions that left terrible consequences. As the Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815 killed nearly 100,000 people, at the same time, ash caused the country to have no summer in the following year. However, compared to what will happen when the super volcano erupts, these disasters are really small.

However, there are very few options for dealing with these timed bombs, in which governments do not seem to have the same attentions as other disasters such as tsunamis or earthquakes.

That's because over the past 2000 years, these disasters have been so numerous that humans have been better prepared.