Yellowstone starting to rumble!!

[vbhoutex]

If someting like Yellowstone goes, more than likely in most areas of the world our wonderful technology would be practically useless. Most of the US would be under at least several inches, if not feet of ash and debris. Many other parts of the world would have inches of ash too. That ash gets into the tiniest of holes too. I would think that primal survival skills will be what is needed for most.

[HollynLA]

For those who think that this would not affect them, I highly reccomend watching the Discovery channel show or do some reading. This isn't something you would just watch on CNN, the entire world would be affected. It would probably be the worst natural disaster in history.

[GalvestonDuck]

Heck, I remember we had ash dust settling on cars and homes in Kentucky after Mt. St. Helens. Yellowstone's mess would be awful!

[brunota2003]

Yellowstone...the area that such devestation can come out of such natural wonder. Last time a supervolcano erupted, the human race was eliminated to a few thousand I believe. Not only do you have to worry about the intial eruption, but also the ash cloud that would circle the globe and cause a volcanic winter (just think nuclear winter, without radiation etc). If it didnt kill you, starvation almost certainly would.

[JonathanBelles]

Earthquake activity isnt above normal.

[lurkey]

Those with I-Tunes might be interested in this video about Yellowstone by the National Park Service.

[Ptarmigan]

For those who think that this would not affect them, I highly reccomend watching the Discovery channel show or do some reading. This isn't something you would just watch on CNN, the entire world would be affected. It would probably be the worst natural disaster in history.

It sure would be, besides getting hit by a meteor or comet. A comet or meteor hitting Earth would be horrendous.

[Aslkahuna]

How much of an extinction event we would get from Yellowstone would depend upon the level of the activity but it would as a minimum be a regional extinction event affecting most of not all of North America. BTW, there's another problem associated with thes big eruptions aside from ash fallout, acid rain and short period climate change and that's O3 layer damage. The Sulphuric acid that forms from the SO2 ejected into the stratosphere is murder on Ozone. The Pinatubo eruption resulted in a noticeable decrease in Ozone and one on the order of Yellowstone could result in major if not total loss of Ozone.

Steve

[lurkey]

http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/200 ... v5t9o0.txt

Earthquake swarm strikes Yellowstone
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - Sixteen small earthquakes with magnitudes up to 2.7 shook Yellowstone National Park last week.

The quakes began Monday, just before midnight, and continued until Wednesday.

Bob Smith, a University of Utah professor, says the quakes occurred on the southern edge of a volcano caldera at the center of Yellowstone.

The volcano last erupted 70,000 years ago.

Smith says it's likely no one felt any of the quakes.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

I would not worry to much if at all, there is about one in 20 million chance of it blowing in the next 100 years. I would be more worried of Astroid or nuclear war. Or even bird flue killing 50 million people before yellowstone.