Beneath the geysers and thermal wonders of Yellowstone National Park rests one of Earth's most powerful geological forces — a supervolcano that scientists have now mapped, in careful hypothetical detail, through its most catastrophic possible awakening. Researchers Ilan Kelman and Matthew Blackett have traced a timeline of destruction that would unfold over months and years: regional obliteration, continental ash fall, and a global chill that would strain food systems worldwide. Yet the exercise is ultimately one of preparedness, not prophecy — Yellowstone currently sleeps at normal volcanic s
Yellowstone Supereruption: Civilization-Scale Disaster, Not Humanity's End
A supereruption would force evacuation of ~200,000 people within 100 km of Yellowstone and cause widespread respiratory illness from ash inhalation.