“This week, new research on the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted on social media. Deep under the first national park lies a pretty sizable volcano that, the story goes, may soon explode and—a at least according to USA Today—“wipe out life on the planet.”…
“Recent evidence suggests eruptions may develop quickly on a geological timescale, but in human years, that’s still as slow as molasses.
“While it’s certainly possible the next gargantuan gurgle could happen in the next few decades, it also could be centuries off.
“Even if the not-so-super volcano did erupt, it certainly wouldn’t end life on Earth, it’d just make living a lot harder.
“Yellowstone would likely be filled with magma and the rest of the continent would suffer airport shutdowns and potentially tainted crops and water, but we’d all be alive.”
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