Yellowstone

Question 1

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What can ash trigger globally?

Answer 1

Rainfall

Question 2

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What impact can an eruption have on crops globally?

Answer 2

Crops wouldn’t grow and people would starve

Question 3

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What can collapse a roof?

Answer 3

30cm of ash or 10cm if wet

Question 4

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What can the ash do to people and animals?

Answer 4

Kill them if inhaled

Question 5

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What would happen to global economies?

Answer 5

Collapse

Question 6

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What happens to the global temperature?

Answer 6

Drop by 10 degrees for 6-10 years due to sulphur from eruption

Question 7

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How far would magma be flung?

Answer 7

50km into atmosphere

Question 8

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How large is the blast radius?

Answer 8

1000km

Question 9

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What percentage of people are killed in the blast radius?

Answer 9

90%

Question 10

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How much of the USA would be covered in ash?

Answer 10

3/4

Question 11

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What would happen 3 days after eruption?

Answer 11

Light ash lands on Europe and reduces sunlight

Question 12

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What happened 2.1 million years ago?

Answer 12

Caldera explosion swallowed 80km of mountains

Question 13

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How long ago did the caldera explosion swallow 80km of mountains?

Answer 13

2.1 million years ago

Question 14

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What is the average cycle of eruptions?

Answer 14

Every 6-700,000 years

Question 15

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How big is the caldera?

Answer 15

100km across

Question 16

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What else does the Supervolcano contain?

Answer 16

Hot springs and geysers known to be geothermal

Question 17

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What are the hot springs and geysers?

Answer 17

Geothermal

Question 18

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What would the global effect be to society?

Answer 18

As we know it, would not survive