The Yellowstone Super-Volcano

[Xombie3000]

Saw this and thought it was pretty neat/scary.

http://www.businessinsider.com/yellowstone-volcano-supereruption-dangers-2014-9

The fear of a Yellowstone supereruption, which ultimately went viral, may have begun back in February when a seismometer called B944 began sending ********* data to a public viewer at the University of Utah's seismographic station, as George Black reports in The New Yorker.

Luckily for most of the U.S., the likelihood this eruption would happen is pretty low: about one in 100,000 any given year. If it did happen, it would be pretty devastating, though.

 

[ban-one]

I saw something about that years ago on the National Geographic Channel.

If it ever does go, the lucky ones will be those ****** in the initial blast. The rest of us can look forward to ending up like those in Pompeii or starving/freezing to death from the ash and dust cloud blocking out the sun.

 

[adultuser10]

"Thinking about a Yellowstone supereruption is like imagining a large asteroid hitting the Earth," says Jacob Lowenstern, a research geologist with the USGS and Scientist-in-Charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. "It could happen, but it's not something you can plan for or worry about, because it's such a low-probability event."

More or less my thoughts, it would be a terrifying situation though. I am more concerned with the Bardarbunga volcano myself but that's just me. It seems far more likely to erupt and would cause problems on a tremendous scale if it were a massive explosion as well many fear. Nice thread I enjoy these topics.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/907...-iceland-volcano-eruption-earthquakes-photos/

 

[Red XXX]

It's not a matter of if, but when ..... and when it does it will more than likely destroy the world as we know it!

Certainly America and most of the Northern Hemisphere will be sent back to the stone age .... so all good!

 

[Will E Worm]

Someone needs to find a way to close it off before it goes off.


Controlling eruptions Link

 

[Xombie3000]

Someone needs to find a way to close it off before it goes off.


Controlling eruptions Link

Yeah, but if we cork it up, how else will the earth fart?