Supervalcano In Yellowstone Park

If this erupts, it will make the volcano in Iceland look like a firecracker.


http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm

anothr link...Widipedia..

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

Volcano Observation at Yellowstone.
The Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) was created as a partnership among the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Yellowstone National Park, and University of Utah to strengthen the long-term monitoring of volcanic and earthquake unrest in the Yellowstone National Park region

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



Eruptions of the Yellowstone volcanic system have included the two largest volcanic eruptions in North America in the past few million years; the third largest was at Long Valley in California and produced the Bishop ash bed. The biggest of the Yellowstone eruptions occurred 2.1 million years ago, depositing the Huckleberry Ridge ash bed. These eruptions left behind huge volcanic depressions called “calderas” and spread volcanic ash over large parts of North America (see map). If another large caldera-forming eruption were to occur at Yellowstone, its effects would be worldwide. Thick ash deposits would bury vast areas of the United States, and injection of huge volumes of volcanic gases into the atmosphere could drastically affect global climate.

OKTHXBYE

Believe it or not, but I have misspeellled words before. Yes, I know. It's shocking and I probably have disillusioned a lot of people with this admission. If Yellowstone blew up I don't think you would care what it was called. You would be running your ash off trying to flee the effects of the explosion, whether is was called a banana, valcano or volcano.

BTW, I'm not attacking you... Have a great weekend!

There are a lot more of them than there are volcanoes.

While you're whimpering about your little bo bo, the rest of us will be running in terror from the clouds of ash burying us! But since you consider a misssspellled word to be like a paper cut you must have felt like you were hacked up by a thousand chain saws ripping at your flesh during the Bush years. Listening to Dumbya made my ears bleed because he seemed unable to read, write or speak on a third grader's level. Bush worried about 'no child left behind', when he couldn't even keep up with the dumbest kid at the back of the line.

Thank god that imbecile-Bu$h is out of office! He's the Dunce of the Decade, the CooCoo of the Century and the the Moron of the Millennium.

I can't see how that is remotely survivable.

Death comes to everyone.

The dust cloud from a huge caldera blow-out would change the climate drastically.

The middle of this continent will look like Pompeii.

2012 is coming and all the other volcanoes are just building up for the Yellowstone caldera to blow!

:sarcasm:

Seriously, When that one blows, just bend over and kiss it all goodbye.

It's almost like these doomsday discovery movies that they keep showing...

yes, they are dangerous and we "could" get wiped out.. but what about the REAL predictions ? Unless there is some serious movement uner the ground there- it is just hot air and fearmongering.

a lake there has been draining toward one end, because the other end is being lifted from below, resulting in exposed lake bed on one end and flooded forest at the other.

There's definite movement, though nothing abrupt and scary, but SOMETHING is happening there.

I'm not going to sweat it.

700,000. It's overdue.

Still, the odds of it happening in any of our lifetimes is remote.

That won't happen till December 2012.

Plenty of time to get our affairs in order.

I have seen a lot of studies and programs about Yellowstone and how massive any explosion could be. It could literally cover the US in darkness if projections are accurate.

BTW, remember Sarah Palin joking about studies on volcanos and earthquakes? She said it was all a waste of money. But conservatives seem to be against all science, and all smart people because they reject the word of scientists, engineers, doctors, scholars, and other experts and instead get all of their 'scientific' information from Glenn Beck. LOL... it would be funny if it wasn't so damned serious...

..I think it was Jindal that first lipped off about volcano research..another right-wing fundamentalist simpleton..

Conservatives seem to be addicted to ignorance. Any attempt to try to pry open their skulls to pour in some truth or facts is futile. They hate everyone who is smart, reasonable and knows 'things'. They seem content with living in disjointed buzzwords filled with hate, anger, racism and fear.

I studied Yellowstone in my volcanology class and even though it has erupted violently in the past, it it may not now. But it could.

Once low harmonic tremors develop underneath the caldera, then I'll start to worry...

..an earth quake in Utah reported this morning..one in Illinois a month or so ago..Iceland volcanoe, Baja quake, Tibet quake, Indonesia quake...Mother Earth sure is active...

I used to subscribe to Natl Geo but dropped it
Saw that issue at the grocery store
I was cleaning out some older magazines the other day but decided to keep that one

and will probably have a way to make the survivor pay up.

The World is COMING TO AN END!

Head for --- well, there is no safe place!

We're doomed.

DOOMED!

It is just a discussion. No one knows anything for sure. It blew once before. It can blow again. When, you do not know. Most in life is pure speculation until it happens. Then it becomes fact. Those who disbelieved it before it happened, side step the issue when confronted. Give the poster a break.

formation. Most think that those changes can't and won't happen in their lifetime. People have been believing that for thousands of years. Some have died from the belief, it can't happen to me. We do not know if it will or won't happen during our lifespan. The ones that say it won't, are just as crazy as the ones that say it will. We just don't know. It could and it could not. One thing is for sure. There are periods of warming and afterward follows cooling. Duh.

I live looking at remains of destruction from the last blow of that sucker. I will be gone if it blows again in my lifetime. So will a huge chunk of America.

Live like today is the last day. Nothing is more important than now. There is a lot more than the Yellowstone that can do us in at any point.

Learn, laugh, love. It really is all that matters. We are all in some sort of debris field when you think about it.

Nothing...

Life's fleeting. There are many ways any of us could die. So, since there's not a damned thing we can do about Yellowstone, I suggest we go on with our lives. The odds that it will blow in the next 500 years are about the same as the odds of that asteroid striking Chicago.

Worry about dying of a disease that you could survive if there were decent healthcare you can afford. That's a real threat. A supervolcano? Not so much. Someday, it will probably erupt again. Could be tomorrow. Could be 10,000 years from now. There are real issues, today, to worry about, and we can do something about those.

Appropriate responses accomplish something. Mindless worry accomplishes nothing.

I live in Oklahoma. I could get hit by a tornado this afternoon. Why worry about stuff I can't control? If I did, I'd never do anything but hid in my garage and post doomsday scenarios like psychotic Teabaggers...

Now, if only I could convince myself of this when I get on airplanes...

lavadomed

volcanoes monitored by the usgs. Most are dormant, but not all.

Our big eruption, of Mt. Mazama, was much more recent than Yellowstone or Long Valley: 4650 BC. We live on a shallow bed of sand covering a deep, deep bed of rock. I can dig about 12 inches at my place before needing a jackhammer, which will only get me another foot down. To really dig here, it takes massively big equipment.

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/platetec/topten.htm

that every time we think we're hot shit, mother nature will be there to hand out an ass whippin'.