[GraceG]

It is the Pyroclastic flow that will kill the most people, not the magma....

It looks like a black rapidly moving storm cloud and is hundreds of degrees....

[21twelve]

“It is the Pyroclastic flow that will kill the most people, not the magma....”

Those are the lucky ones. Those of us outside the initial kill zone will die off after a few years of no crop production in the grain belt (buried under feet of ash), and limited production of the rest of the world’s harvest because of the nuclear winters.

There will be survivors, but I would imagine not too many. 10%?? 20%??? of the world’s population would survive??? (I’m guessing there are studies on this.)

[cherry]

how far will the pyoclastic cloud travel and will it go in all directions?

[montag813]

For those who wish to understand what would befall millions of Americans after a Yellowstone eruption, read about what happened in Martinique in 1902 -- when an eruption of a volcano a tiny fraction of the power of Yellowstone incinerated an entire city and killed 30,000 people 4 miles away within 90 seconds.

[Mears]

bfl