Chapter 359: Volcanic Eruption

It was not a pleasure to drive a long Lincoln in such a place, and Jason often saw the gaps before he was about to overtake, and remembered that the car was too long to pass, so he honestly followed others.

Han Xuan found that the animals in the vicinity were irritable and fled from the forest in a panic, snakes appeared in the wilderness in groups, and eagles flew in the sky, but they did not prey on them.

A moose even ran to the middle of the road, fortunately the traffic jam, the speed was not fast, a car was rear-ended because of the sudden braking, rubbed a little paint, empathetic said that it would be private later, and continued on the road.

Jason didn't know where his destination was, so he opened the window and asked loudly to the person in the car next to him, "Man, which volcano is going to erupt?"

"We don't know, let's go with the car in front, they're all here to see. The couple in the car said.

"Thank you......"

Not much further on.

Han Xuan suddenly saw smoke coming out of a place, and the cars in front of him stopped on the side of the road.

He walked up behind Jason, put his hand on his chair and said, "Just stop here, I see them going up the hill." ”

"Well, it's a hassle to find a place to park, there aren't that many empty spaces. ”

Drive to the side of the road, park Lincoln on a flat grass, and get out of the car one after another.

Pooh was restless, scurrying back and forth to vent his emotions, an instinct to escape danger, and soon forced himself to calm down, and returned to the car to die and refuse to leave.

Han Xuan shouted a few times and saw that it ignored him, so he had no choice but to tell it not to run around, and walked on the plank road leading to the observation deck at the top of the mountain.

A group of people followed behind them up the mountain, and found that they were all carrying large bags and small bags, holding professional observation tools in their hands, and some people looked at the smoking places from time to time, recorded them in their notebooks, and asked curiously: "Traveling?"

"No, no, no. I'm from the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory in Hawaii, and they're my colleagues, but some of them are from the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory in California, Alaska, Washington. A young man with a little dark skin and glasses said.

"And this organization? Volcano is in Yellowstone National Park, what is the observation post doing in Hawaii?"

"I don't know, the Observatory has been around for decades. The headquarters is far away, but there are people who stay here for a long time to observe.

We saw signs of activity in this volcano half a year ago, and it was only the day before yesterday that it was certain that it would erupt in the next two days. ”

"It's too heavy to carry so many things, do you want me to get some for you?"

Gabriel stretched out his hand and asked him, "I think it's close to the volcano, so there won't be any danger, right?"

?“ Thank you for your kindness, sir. I can hold it.

Crater 13 is almost two kilometers away, and it's just a small-scale pressure-releasing eruption, not dangerous, and it also erupted once seven years ago, making it the most restless little guy in Yellowstone. ”

Carrying the strap up, the young man stretched out his hand to Han Xuan and said with a smile: "Phillips, where did you come from?"

"Northwest Montana. My name is Han, and this is Jason and Gabriel. And Owen. ”

Remembering that in the movie "2012", the destruction of the earth originally started with the eruption of the Yellowstone volcano, and finally met an expert, Han Xuan asked the question in his heart: "I heard others say that the eruption of the Yellowstone volcano will destroy the earth, is this true?"

"Probably not, but it's a horrible disaster, you know. We're on a huge crater right now, so every time I come here, I'm scared.

In the sixties, geologists were puzzled when they studied the history of Yellowstone's formation, because they knew that it was a volcanic formation, but they couldn't find where the crater was.

Until NASA tests some kind of high-altitude camera. After taking a few photos of Yellowstone, they realized that this place covering an area of 9,000 square kilometers and a diameter of nearly 65 kilometers is a huge volcanic crater!

If it erupts, everything in the surrounding area for several kilometers will become gas, and the shock wave can destroy all houses within a thousand kilometers, and 90% of the people in this range will die!

So we have these four observatories, and in fact we have drilled the soil around Yellowstone and found that it erupts every 600,000 years, and now it's 630,000 years since the last eruption, and now the fertile west of the Mississippi River is covered in volcanic ash after that time, so it's now the world's largest granary.

The Yellowstone volcano has been a little more active lately, and the magma has been approaching the surface over the years, and it may not be far from its eruption. ”

Han Xuan was taken aback, driven by the psychological effect, he felt that the ground under his feet was hot, and his home was not far from here, at least within the range of highly toxic gases!

After thinking about it, I couldn't help but look at them, no wonder the observatory was built so far away, because I knew this, I would be afraid......

Seeing his expression, Phillips smirked as if he had succeeded in his mischief, and continued, "But don't worry, at least it's not dangerous for now."

We check for magma changes once a month, and when it's time to erupt, we'll issue a notice for everyone to evacuate, and three-quarters of the continental United States will be destroyed, covering 1,500 meters of volcanic ash.

But at least a quarter of the area is still inhabitable, and the ash floats into the atmosphere and dissipates in six to ten years. ”

Now Gabriel and they were also terrified.

Owen's eyes widened to the limit, "Aren't humans going to perish like dinosaurs?

A gray-haired old man behind Phillips slapped him hard and said, "Don't scare people, gentlemen, we have simulated its outbreak, at least a small number of people will survive, and humanity will not be destroyed."

That could be thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years away, and it's still dormant, and maybe a solution will be found.

You come to see the eruption, you won't be without a mask, right? There is a lot of volcanic ash floating on the top of the mountain, and it is invisible like dust, but now it is in the air, and it is harmful to the human body if you inhale too much, Phillips, find a few masks and give them them. ”

As he approached the top of the mountain, Han Xuan saw that most of the people around him were indeed wearing masks, and turned his head to look a few kilometers away, a small mountain pass more than twenty meters high emerged from the forest, the black smoke column was tilted by the wind, and the surrounding trees were dyed white, as if it was snowing.

The crater was constantly gushing orange-red magma, and after the 1988 Yellowstone fire, the small trees had only grown for a few years, and there was nothing left to burn.

More than a dozen firefighting helicopters came, and when they saw that they were ignited by magma, they sprinkled dry powder fire extinguishing agent to extinguish them.

Instead of erupting violently, the magma came out slowly, forming several orange torrents in the crater.

There were constantly trees flooded with magma, that orange red made Han Xuan feel terrifying, strange and dazzling, and the low temperature showed black, it could destroy everything that passed along the way.

Volcanic ash stained the clouds in the sky, and on sunny days, there was inexplicable thunder, and the crater was melted by magma, and the height was constantly decreasing.

I didn't see it very clearly halfway up the mountain, so I took the mask handed by Phillips, thanked him, put it on, and walked briskly to the top of the mountain...... (To be continued.) )