Right now, there are
1,500 active volcanoes on Earth.
Just one of those volcanoes
could do catastrophic damage,
but at midnight tonight,
every volcano on the planet
is erupting.
You, uh, might want to cancel
any plans you have.
Brace yourself.
This may just be the worst weather forecast
you’re ever going to hear.
Every volcano on Earth,
active or dormant,
on land
or under the sea
is ready to blow the lid off this place.
You can expect to see
plumes of ash,
lava bombs,
and jet spurts on every single continent,
and in every single ocean.
But I know what you're thinking.
You can take the heat right?
Well, take a seat there Sparky.
It's going to get a whole lot worse.
If every volcano on Earth erupted at once,
it would set off
some high magnitude earthquakes.
This is because so many volcanoes
are located near
the shifting tectonic plates of the Earth.
And while the lava and earthquakes
would certainly do some major damage,
one of the biggest blows we're going to face
is the nasty gases
that spew out of volcanoes.
Clouds of gas,
smoke and ash
can travel in almost liquid-like motions
to anywhere in the world.
They could smother the Earth
in a matter of minutes.
But let's say for a second,
you managed to survive the initial explosions.
Well, I've got two
very upsetting words for you,
volcanic ash.
The volcanic ash
would blackout the skies,
blocking any sunlight in the process.
This would cause the temperature on Earth
to plummet.
Without the Sun,
the Earth's surface temperature
would plunge to 0 °C (32 °F)
after the first week,
and then to -66 °C (-150 °F)
by the end of the first year.
On the bright side,
it’s not an inferno of death anymore.
To make matters worse,
no sunlight means
no plants.
Which means no food for animals.
Most animal species would go extinct,
as the loss of plants would set off
a mass extinction
due to its impact on the food chain.
And don’t hold your breath for the stragglers.
You can expect acid rain
to take care of them.
This is because of those volcanic gases
we mentioned earlier.
Hydrochloric acid,
hydrogen flouride,
hydrogen sulfide,
and sulfur dioxide,
would condense in the atmosphere.
And they would fall to the Earth
as rain.
This would then contaminate
any freshwater supply we had left.
But what if we had some
fighters still kicking?
What would life be like
for those living in the aftermath?
Well, the economy
isn’t going to do you any favors.
The volcanic destruction
would cause a complete economic collapse.
Every business and bank
would shut down,
you'd lose access to credit
and become instantly unemployed.
Unless you count being a wasteland survivor
as your new job.
This is Peter,
day 124,
coming to you live
from inside my underground bunker.
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there’s not a lot of people down here to talk to.
It would be full-blown
post-apocalyptica out there.
Searching the ash-covered world
for aquifers containing freshwater,
venturing out into the wasteland
for supplies,
and living in heated,
underground bunkers.
Now, while it is very possible
that volcanoes could set each other off
by being in close proximity,
the chances of every volcano on Earth
exploding at once
is highly unlikely.
But it does make us think
about how quickly things can go south.
What if we could prepare
for something like this?
What if we built the world’s deepest bunker?
Well, that’s a story for another WHAT IF.