{"id":28178,"date":"2016-07-21T14:47:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T21:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/well-only-have-a-year-to-prepare-for-a-cataclysmic-super-eruption"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:04:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:04:30","slug":"well-only-have-a-year-to-prepare-for-a-cataclysmic-super-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/well-only-have-a-year-to-prepare-for-a-cataclysmic-super-eruption","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ll Only Have a Year to Prepare For a Cataclysmic Super-Eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/well-only-have-a-year-to-prepare-for-a-cataclysmic-super-eruption.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Volcanic super-eruptions are bad. Like really bad. Scientists warn of such a potentially civilization-ending catastrophe in our future, but as a new study shows, we\u2019ll only have a year to prepare once the signs of an impending eruption become visible.<\/p>\n<p>A new microscopic analysis of quartz crystals taken from the site of a massive volcanic eruption that occurred 760,000 years ago in eastern California suggests we\u2019ll only have about a year\u2019s worth of advance warning before a devastating super-eruption. In a paper <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0159200\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in PLOS ONE, Guilherme Gualda from Vanderbilt University and Stephen Sutton from the University of Chicago show that super-eruptions don\u2019t require much time to blow their tops, even though they\u2019re tens of thousands of years in the making.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/we-ll-only-have-a-year-to-prepare-for-a-cataclysmic-sup-1784039157\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/we-ll-only-have-a-year-to-prepare-for-a-c...1784039157<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volcanic super-eruptions are bad. Like really bad. Scientists warn of such a potentially civilization-ending catastrophe in our future, but as a new study shows, we\u2019ll only have a year to prepare once the signs of an impending eruption become visible. A new microscopic analysis of quartz crystals taken from the site of a massive volcanic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61081,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28178\/revisions\/61081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}