There’s a ticking time bomb in America. And its one that hardly anyone knows even exists. Believe it or not, beneath one of our best known national parks, a slumbering “super volcano”— one of the most powerful, destructive volcanoes ever to exist on planet Earth— has quietly been going through a period of record-breaking activity. And, as Greg Breining will reveal, this super volcano is so large that it doesn’t just sit beneath the national park— at 45 miles wide, it is the national park. What will happen when it finally erupts?

Breining provides the shocking answers to this question and others as he discusses:

• Why the super volcano lying beneath Yellowstone National Park has the potential to kill 1 billion worldwide when it erupts.

• How we know that the Yellowstone volcano has erupted more than 140 times in the last 16 million years – but has stayed silent for at least the last 600,000, making us due for a major eruption.

• Why scientists who have studied Yellowstone say the chance of another super eruption is not a question of if, but only of when.

• How the world would deal with a volcanic eruption 100 times more powerful than Krakatoa.

CREDENTIALS: Greg Breining has written several books on the natural world, and also writes essays and articles for The New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, Sports Illustrated and many other publications. His latest book is SUPER VOLCANO: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park.

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