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volcanoes they're terrifying deadly and
will stop at nothing to destroy you your
town and everyone you love according to
various disaster movies from the 90s
that is coming off of this
unbelievable welcome to watchmojo.com
ting down the five most fascinating
facts that you probably didn't know
about volcanoes one of mother nature's
scariest creations
number five Jupiter's moon Io has some
Beast volcanoes before we get to our own
planet let's travel into the vast
blackness of space and visit IO the
innermost moon of Jupiter IO is the most
geologically active object in the entire
solar system complete with over 400
volcanoes some with rings the size of
California these volcanoes are insanely
hot with temperatures reaching 1800
Kelvin or about 1500 degrees Celsius to
put this in perspective the ground
around the volcanic vents literally
sizzles from the immense heat these
plumes of sulfur and lava can rise over
300 miles into the air and can even be
observed through the Hubble Space
Telescope number for more than 80
percent of the Earth's surface is a
volcanic origin ancient volcanic
activity played a large role in shaping
our planet into what it is and how it
appears today this 80% accounts for all
of the earth's surface including both
above and below sea level gas emissions
from volcanoes throughout millions and
millions of years helped form the
Earth's earliest oceans and even its
atmosphere which as you probably know is
kind of important for like life
throughout the billions of years that
Earth has existed volcanic eruptions
have also helped shape the planets
landscape including it plateaus
mountains and gorgeous vistas eruptions
continued create landmass in fact as one
did near Nishan Oshima Island in Japan
from 2013 to 2015 number three active
volcanoes could power cities the idea of
generating power using the heat of the
earth called geothermal energy is
nothing new so why not use the hottest
parts of the earth to do it drill holes
down to the super
underneath my feet the steam and rushes
up and power these huge great turbines
here experts are now viewing active
volcanoes as potential sources of
renewable energy and efforts to harness
their power are already underway Hawaii
has ambitious plans to become 100%
renewable by 2045 and they're planning
on using their vast wealth of volcanoes
to achieve that goal some questioned the
safety of building a power plant on a
volcano but engineers insist they'd be
able to tell well in advance of an
eruption was imminent it's probably
worth the risk anyway this new
technology could provide 30 percent more
power than the typical geothermal wells
that we use today plus harnessing the
power of a volcano is undeniably cool in
a Bond villain sort of way number two
volcanoes can literally appear overnight
while it is true that most volcanoes
take thousands of years to form some
actually do appear in the blink of an
eye
at least in geological terms parícutin a
volcano located in Mexico randomly
appeared in a farmer's cornfield on
February 20th 1943 and within a week it
was already 5 stories tall in 1952 nine
years after it literally emerged from
the ground it reaches its peak height of
424 metres or just over 1390 feet so
when you go to bed tonight
just remember that when you wake up
there may be a volcano growing in your
living room sweet dreams
number one we'd be in a lot of trouble
of Yellowstone Caldera erupted the
Yellowstone Caldera is a beast that's
been sleeping for 640 thousand years not
extinct just dormant let's hope she
doesn't wake up
granted scientists claim that the
chances of interrupting are slim but it
would immediately result in ninety
thousand deaths across the US and leave
a 10 foot layer of ash within a thousand
kilometers of the site not only would
people be buried in burning ash but it
would also disrupt electronics block up
the Sun and cool temperatures this in
turn would destroy crops and cause a
worldwide food shortage while some
geologists claim that it wouldn't be
nearly as dramatic as that the ash would
still disrupt communications shut down
air travel and block water lines and
that's the best case scenario on the
plus side the various reports you may
have heard that Yellowstone is overdue
for an eruption are according to
Yellowstone Volcano Observatory and the
US Geological Survey false so are you
fascinated or terrified by volcanoes and
what do you think of the possibility
that they could be used for energy for
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