Supervolcano (film)

Supervolcano is a disaster television film that originally aired onMarch 2005 on BBC One, and released by the BBC onApril 2005 on the Discovery Channel. It is centered on the speculated and potential eruption of the volcanic caldera of Yellowstone National Park. Its tagline is Scientists know it as the deadliest volcano on Earth. You know it...as Yellowstone.

The film then goes back five years, showing a press conference where Rick and his colleagues are with their boss, Michael Eldridge are trying to persuade the press that their new simulator, VIRGIL, can help determine any possibility of an eruption. A woman named Maggie Chin asks about the possibility of a supereruption, which Rick dismisses as the possibility of such an event is in the odds ofin 600,000.The next day, the USGS observes a 6.9 earthquake which causes a tsunami wave to slam into the Fishing Bridge area of the park. This prompts Maggie to press again, asking Rick if a supereruption is still possible, which he says is not so as the earthquake was not caused by volcanic activity. However, this does not stop her from appearing with Kenneth Weilly on KCVZ news to discuss Kens book on volcanoes. He tells the difference between a regular volcanic eruption and a super volcanic eruption. He then goes on to say that the Yellowstone volcano has shown a pattern of erupting every 600,000 years, and an eruption has not happened in 640,000 years, saying the eruption is overdue. Rick, who is observing the interview, is angered at Kens words and it is revealed the two are brothersinlaw. ........

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