The end of humanity? What would happen if the Yellowstone supervolcano erupted now

ScienceDaily
Sep 22, 2026, 4:32 am62 pts
A Yellowstone super-eruption would begin not with a sudden surprise, but with weeks of increasingly alarming warning signs such as migrating earthquake swarms, rapid ground uplift, changing geysers, and rising volcanic gases. In a worst-case scenario, those signals could culminate in a VEI 8 eruption that…

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