{"id":853,"date":"2015-02-27T15:17:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T21:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2015-03-30T16:43:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T21:43:01","slug":"yellowstone-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 278px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/nature\/natural-disasters\/supervolcanoes.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/3\/31\/Lake_Toba_3D_2012.jpg\/320px-Lake_Toba_3D_2012.jpg\" alt=\"False-color image of Lake Toba, the flooded 19-by-62 mile caldera of a supervolcano that may have jump-started a 10,000-year ice age. \" width=\"278\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">False-color image of Lake Toba, the flooded 19-by-62 mile caldera of a supervolcano that may have jump-started a 10,000-year ice age.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The eruption of Krakatau in 1883 is synonymous with cataclysm, and with good reason. Its eruptive power equated to several thousand atom bombs, and it killed around 36,000 people. But compared to the supervolcanoes that nearly wiped out humanity, or that may yet spell global catastrophe, it was a wet squib.<\/p>\n<p>Find out about the magma doom machine buried under America\u2019s oldest national park as I take you on a tour of \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/nature\/natural-disasters\/supervolcanoes.htm%20\" target=\"_blank\">How Supervolcanoes Work<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eruption of Krakatau in 1883 is synonymous with cataclysm, and with good reason. Its eruptive power equated to several thousand atom bombs, and it killed around 36,000 people. But compared to the supervolcanoes that nearly wiped out humanity, or that may yet spell global catastrophe, it was a wet squib. Find out about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=853\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yellowstone and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,50,4,74,3],"tags":[72,17,132,977,978,25,976,975],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology-and-meteorology","category-geoscience","category-history","category-physics","category-science","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-eschatology","tag-hot-spots","tag-magma","tag-nature","tag-plate-tectonics","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}