Yellowstone starting to rumble!!

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258732,00.html




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[MississippiHurricane]

WHOA!! Reminds me of the film "supervolcano" on discovery the other night. I did not see this coming. I'd hate to live near it now.

[HollynLA]

You'd probably be better off if you did live near it, atleast you would go quickly rather than suffer from drought, famine, then slow death. If Yellowstone blows, the entire world will eventually be affected, it will just take longer.

Activity has been slowly increasing in the area for quite a while but scientist keep saying it's not going to blow anytime soon. I wonder how they can be so sure since it's never been studied (the explosion that is).

[JonathanBelles]

I heard it will blow in a few 1000 years, but that is scary.

[Brent]

I heard it will blow in a few 1000 years, but that is scary.

It's been 640,000 years since the last time. It's really overdue.

[Opal storm]

Hopefully I'm long gone by the time that thing blows it's top.

[HollynLA]

From what I've learned about Yellowstone, and yes, I've been there too, is that it is currently overdue by approx. 40,000 years. Honestly, I don't think science knows enough about these supervolcanoes to know what the signs are.

[Scorpion]

With our modern technological advances humanity would prevail in such an event

[Derek Ortt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_eruption

Toba is not exactly quiet... far mroe active than Yellowstone

Scorpion, you have zero clue what you are talking about here. Our technology may be our downfall since we are so dependent upon it, and in a super eruption, it is mainly gone

[HollynLA]

I have to agree with Derek here. Technology will do us no good when we would need old fashioned survival skills to stay alive.

[pojo]

we had to study Yellowstone in my classes at UWGB.... Yellowstone is definitely overdue for an eruption....

[Miss Mary]

Yep. I also remember studying Yellowstone in a Geology class I took about 8 years ago. One of my ill fated attempts to obtain my BS degree.....anyway, our Prof said several times if it blows, the damage would be massive. It would change so much. I was just glad to be living in Ohio but she quickly said we'd all be affected, in one or other. I've never forgotten that chapter/class lecture!

Mary

[Lindaloo]

Yep. I also remember studying Yellowstone in a Geology class I took about 8 years ago. One of my ill fated attempts to obtain my BS degree.....anyway, our Prof said several times if it blows, the damage would be massive. It would change so much. I was just glad to be living in Ohio but she quickly said we'd all be affected, in one or other. I've never forgotten that chapter/class lecture!

Mary

In what way would we be affected this far away?

[Miss Mary]

Yep. I also remember studying Yellowstone in a Geology class I took about 8 years ago. One of my ill fated attempts to obtain my BS degree.....anyway, our Prof said several times if it blows, the damage would be massive. It would change so much. I was just glad to be living in Ohio but she quickly said we'd all be affected, in one or other. I've never forgotten that chapter/class lecture!

Mary

In what way would we be affected this far away?

She implied it would change our wx, of course. Not long term, but short term. This is going back 8 years now so I don't exactly remember all the details of that lecture but I do recall she made a big deal out of Yellowstone being long overdue, as pojo pointed out.

[Lindaloo]

That is what I thought you would say **sigh** I sure dislike the term "long overdue" now.

[Opal storm]

Life is too short to be worrying about something like this,I don't care how overdue it is I'm not losing a minute of sleep over it.I mean,if it blows up we're all doomed anyway so who cares?Heck,I'm still waiting for the bird flu to come over and kill us all and a giant asteroid to take out the whole planet etc etc.

[Brent]

Life is too short to be worrying about something like this,I don't care how overdue it is I'm not losing a minute of sleep over it.I mean,if it blows up we're all doomed anyway so who cares?Heck,I'm still waiting for the bird flu to come over and kill us all and a giant asteroid to take out the whole planet etc etc.

That's a good point. I'm not worried about it either...

[Ptarmigan]

With our modern technological advances humanity would prevail in such an event

I have to disagree with you. We are way too dependent on technology. We have to rely on our primal survival instincts. Our ancestors did that after Toba erupted.

[Derek Ortt]

the ash cloud would put several feet of Ash in Ohio in all liklihood

That type of eruption is about 550 times larger than Mt Pinitubos

[angelwing]

I have to agree, we are way too dependent on technology, once Yellowstone goes, (or whatever else will happen)you're gonna need to know just how to survive.