Supervolcano

The Catastrophic Event That Changed The Course Of Human History

By: Marie D. Jones, Dr. John M. Savino Ph.D

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins

Publisher's summary

REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION Approximately 75,000 years ago, an event occurred that almost wiped out human life. According to a stunning new theory, this singular event may also have completely altered the genetic evolution of humankind. It was an event that released 3,000 times the energy of Mt. St. Helens. The new book, Supervolcano, explores this eruption of the Toba supervolcano in Sumatra, Indonesia, its far-reaching impact, and the strong possibility of another supervolcano eruption in our lifetime. Supervolcanoes are considered one of the five biggest threats to humankind, along with asteroids, nuclear war, disease, and global warming. But of those, supervolcanoes are the only threat that cannot be prevented. And their effects are catastrophic. So devastating was the Toba eruption and the sheer amount of ash it released into the atmosphere, it altered the global climate for years, creating a mini Ice Age that obliterated massive amounts of plant, animal, and human life. A new theory claims this earth-shattering event also caused a severe "population bottleneck" in humans, leading to the eventual extinction of all other branches of our species with the exception of one...the branch that survived Toba and became modern humans. Supervolcano will explore: -What supervolcanos are, where they are found, and why they are so deadly to life on earth. -Toba, the largest of the known supervolcanoes in the past 27 million years, and how its catastrophic environmental aftermath brought humanity to the brink of extinction. -How genetic, geological, and computer studies show that each human today is related to a survivor of Toba. -How we can prepare for the next supervolcano, which many earth scientists believe could be right here in our own backyard--Yellowstone National Park. And why they believe an eruption at Yellowstone could be as catastrophic for humanity as Toba. But we believe it might be another beast waiting to awaken.

WILL YELLOWSTONE BE NEXT? OR LONG VALLEY?
A 2018 study in the journal GeoScienceWorld titled “Seismic evidence for significant melt beneath the Long Valley Caldera” should have rattled alarmists away from their doom cries of Yellowstone. The cadre of USGS experts involved in the study at the California Volcano Observatory in Menlo Park reported that “three-dimensional full-waveform topography” which reads sound waves bouncing deep in the Earth, revealed a reservoir beneath the Long Valley Caldera of more than 240 cubic miles of magma, with 27 percent hot enough and the right composition to be liquid.
Were this liquid to blast out of Long Valley, located south of Mono Lake near the Nevada border, it would be as cataclysmic as the last Yellowstone supereruption 640,000 years ago that formed its current caldera.
Sadly, the media continued and continues to cry gloom and doom about the more “glamorous” Yellowstone while virtually ignoring this other hotbed that created Long Valley’s current 20-by-10 mile caldera.