Overdue Supervolcanoes 'May Erupt Soon'

[Minstrel Boy]

Overdue Supervolcanoes 'May Erupt Soon'

Sunday January 30


Slumbering supervolcanoes powerful enough to wipe out much of the planet may awaken much sooner than it had previously been thought.Experts believed it would take hundreds of thousands of years for reservoirs of molton rock, or magma, beneath a supervolcano to build for an eruption.But a new study indicates the time between super-eruptions can actually be tens of thousands of years - and many are already long overdue.

A blast from a supervolcano would be strong enough cause mass extinction and change the world's climate.

The findings, published in the Journal of Petrology, are bad news for anyone living in the centre of the US.

An overdue monster supervolcano is hidden underneath one of the country's premier holiday spots - Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The last blast there, which occurred more than 600,000 years ago, covered half the US - around 3,000sq miles - with volcanic ash.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050130/140/fbdpm.html

[slackmaster]

1. SUBSCRIBE

:nuke:

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. TIP- stay atleast 600 miles from yellowstone

under * i am sure it will be blowing soon

[slackmaster]

6. Mammoth Lakes Caldera is looking for a good excuse to blow too

There go California and Nevada and anybody downwind for several hundred miles.

:nuke:

[nashville_brook]

16. whenever i see stories like this, i think that the appearance of the

antichrist in the white house calls off all bets.

it could be 10,000 years or tomorrow till our next armageddon.

(wow, that was a Debbie Downer sort of thing to say -- not that armageddon has to be all bad -- we *will* be in the "velvet rope section of eternity.")

:)

[Spinzonner]

3. Vulcanism is just another liberal theory

[aquart]

4. Not my favorite way to go.

Basically, the earth is getting ready to shake us off. The survivalists are going to feel SO clever.

[The empressof all]

5. Actually being near Yellowstone when this blows...

It may very well be better to be in Yellowstone when this one blows. What impact this will have on the entire planet may make survival a living hell.

[indigobusiness]

11. I didn't see your post, whe I said much the same below...

The graphic caught my eye and I echoed what you said in response to that post. I think it could be a bad situation surving the catastrophic potential of Yellowstone.

Survival would be small comfort.

[theHandpuppet]

13. What would be the global impact?

When the Yellowstone Caldera eventually blows (be it 5 minutes or 50,000 years from now) what would be the global impact?

[indigobusiness]

14. Famine...

Catastrophic weather changes and crop failures. Summer would be a memory. The ash in the atmosphere would take a long time to clear.
Food would be in short supply almost instantly.

[Boomer]

17. About that food...

>> Food would be in short supply almost instantly. <<

Except for those of us who wear tin-foil hats and keep a pantry stocked with 6 months worth of food goods!

Just one problem -- I haven't stocked up on any weapons to defend that pantry from several million starving people in my immediate vicinity...

>> Food would be in short supply almost instantly. <<

Yeah, what you said.

[indigobusiness]

19. It won't matter who's wearing what sort of hat

when the have-nots go after the haves, in the starvation shuffle.

The cupboard will be bare in no time flat.

[slutticus]

7. The Yellowstone caldera is huge.

I wouldn't want to be near this thing when it blows...

[indigobusiness]

10. I wonder if the one's closest

will be the luckier ones?

It won't be pretty for the rest, in the aftermath.

[david_vincent]

15. Isn't that Cheney's state?

Bring it on!

[jdots]

8. the day I finally get to go to YellowStone it will blow

I read about this before bushy stole 2000 and since then the familly is so broke we can't go anywhere ,I sure want to see it before it is history.

[indigobusiness]

12. It is unbelievably unusual and beautiful.

Go.

[theHandpuppet]

9. Good site for the latest info on the Yellowstone Caldera

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/monitoring.html

Follow the links and you will find info/maps such as these:
http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/index.html
and
http://www.seis.utah.edu/helicorder/heli/yellowstone/index.html

[Q3JR4]

18. I live in Idaho.

I like to think that I'll get to have sex one last time before it happens. :P