What Would An Eruption Of The Yellowstone Supervolcano Look Like?

Freedom Outpost ^ | April 1, 2014 | Michael Snyder

[katana]

Anyone not viewing it from space yet close enough to see and/or photograph it won’t survive the experience. The like has not been seen in recorded human history. Krakatoa, Santorini, Taupo, Mt. St, Helens, all were firecrackers in comparison with a super volcanic eruption.

[KoRn]

I believe they’ve found a pattern with the Yellowstone Eruptions, doing so every half million years. Given it last blew at around six hundred thousand years ago, considering the pattern, one could reasonably assume it’s ‘overdue’.

[Smokin' Joe]

On the bright side, we wouldn't have to listen to The Won and his minions bloviating-on incessantly.

That's what the 'mute' button is for...

[null and void]

*ouch*

[cripplecreek]

Or it may never erupt again.

[KoRn]

This is very true.

[Lazamataz]

It would look like this:

[A CA Guy]

Sure, and that is why there isn’t anything like this under China and other places where they have been for worse for generations?

OK

[Lake Living]

Too bad we can’t move Yellowstone closer to D.C. or California :- )

[PIF]

“...as Russia, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia rise to dominate world politics...”

They will not escape either, nor will those south of the Equator. There will be no ‘world politics’, just a handful of people in isolated pockets struggling to find something to eat, mostly dying miserable deaths as they inhale the rock dust, ripping their lungs to shreds, shivering in temperatures as much as 38 deg F cooler, coughing to death in the years long dark.

It is difficult to contemplate just how much rock dust 240-600 cubic miles (Yellowstone historic range) creates ... and then there are all the millions of tons of aerosols - like sulfur dioxide, etc. - all shoved over 21 miles into the stratosphere.

If Mt. St. Helens was a one (with 0.048 cubic miles of ash), and Toba was a 2800 (191 cubic miles of ash), this one could be bigger still.

[Constitution Day]

Thank you! The borders of NC in that map roughly approximate what the real colony of North Carolina’s borders were in about 1776 when that area was annexed into NC.

[Dead Corpse]

Dang it... Those shaded areas are all places I’ve looked at for moving to.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks KoRn. Any volcanic eruption is a mole on the ass of the Earth. It can do damage locally, but is never, ever on a scale of the large impacts that have brought on extinctions of whole taxa. Krakatoa caused beautiful sunsets for a couple of years, whoa. The "year without a summer" has been attributed to an eruption of Tambora along with a few other eruptions, but it was also (weird coincidence!) a period of very low solar activity; monitoring the solar disk was pretty new then. [ * ]

With a Volcano of that size, you’d think we would have obvious warning signs of an imminent eruption in the way of seismic activity.

The only thing the specialists can do is say whether a volcano is active, dormant, or extinct, and they're usually right about it. When a volcano starts throwing out gas, building a dome, or belching molten material, they know, but of course, everyone else does too.

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[Monkey Face]

When I go, I want it to be quick. I don’t want to linger.

[rmlew]

I for one vote for a Mesa Falls eruption in 100,000 years.

[Monkey Face]

That was my first thought...

[SunkenCiv]

I think that’s pretty much everyone’s dream. I wouldn’t want to go the way each of my parents went. But, as you know, we get what we get. :’(

[reed13k]

I still think we’re gonna get wyrmwood on this side of the earth.

[Safrguns]

>>> Sure, and that is why there isn’t anything like this under China and other places where they have been for worse for generations?

Who knows what China faces... Who cares? I would be more concerned about where we live first.

Who knows when this supervolcano will erupt? Will it be before or during the tribulation? I don’t know.

I do know this... during the tribulation, the entire WORLD comes under God’s wrath... not just the US.

How much do you want to bet that this volcano does NOT erupt during that time?

[onedoug]

‘Think David Crocket was born in the then State of Franklin.