Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Day 120, Monday
April 30th, 2018
Chapter One: The Last Event
Most of the people in the world had no knowledge of the threat posed by
the Yellowstone volcano, even though the information was available, it was on
the internet, and there had been many documentaries filmed concerning it.
The earliest documentaries, were disturbing. After airing for a decade
and raising the level of alarm, newer productions began to slip miss-information
into the narrative. This eased public apprehension about the dilemma, but did
nothing in the way of preparing people for it.
The United States Geological Service (U.S.G.S.), closely monitored the
volcano. They were aided by several nearby universities. They began to monitor
it as soon as they realized what they had discovered.
Seismographs were deployed, and in time the vast magma dome at the
epicenter was mapped out through global positioning systems, satellite tracking
that measured uplift and deformation of the surface of the cauldera at its
weakest point.
In the early days this information was available to the public, but
after a year of intense activity the crucial and most informative data became
restricted.
Then, the eruption came without warning.
It shook the world, throwing it off its axis.
Ash poured into the upper atmosphere, covering everything in a poisonous
cloud, hiding the survivors from the face of the sun.
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