A viral video showing a volcanic eruption is falsely being attributed to Yellowstone National Park. The footage actually captures an eruption of Mount Dukono in Indonesia, which is currently in a continuing eruption status.
The video shows Indonesia’s Mount Dukono erupting in August, not Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park in December. Mount Dukono is in a continuing eruption status, meaning it has eruptive events with breaks that are no longer than three months. Yellowstone , dubbed a 'supervolcano,' has erupted three times in 2.1 million years, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The last time was 70,000 years ago. It’s a terrifying scene.
Massive plumes of dark smoke billow behind a rock formation as people seek to escape, running down a mountainside. A man narrating the video said the explosion happened 'yesterday,' and said scientists believe 'this is probably going to cause five years of total darkness in the U.S.' This post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our This video is real, but it was not captured at Wyoming’s Yellowstone National Park. The footage was recorded in August in Indonesia’s Mount Dukono. Such status doesn’t mean 'persistent daily activity,' the institution said, but indicates 'intermittent eruptive events without a break of 3 months or more.' Dukono’s eruption started Aug. 13, 1933. Yellowstone is dubbed a 'supervolcano' — one with a volcanic center having an 'eruption of magnitude 8 on the Volcano Explosivity Index' — and it has erupted three times in 2.1 million years, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The agency said it last erupted 70,000 years ago.
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