Slumbering five miles beneath the surface of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is a timebomb more than 640,000 years in the making.

The Yellowstone supervolcano is a vast reservoir of magma with the potential to unleash a category eight eruption over 100 times more powerful than Krakatoa.

Thankfully, Yellowstone or any supervolcano of its size has never erupted within recorded human history. But now, artificial intelligence (AI) reveals exactly what that would look like.

With Google‘s ImageFX AI image generator, MailOnline has used the latest scientific research to predict how major cities would be affected by the eruption.

While the blast would kill thousands and send rivers of molten lava pouring up to 40 miles (64km) from the eruption site, this would only be the start of the devastation.

Experts predict that every town in a 50-mile (80km) radius would be all but annihilated by the same pyroclastic flows that created the petrified figures of Pompeii.

Meanwhile, the United States would be blanketed in a thick layer of choking ash as the world plunges into a volcanic winter which could last for years.

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