Or it could be a small eruption or eruptions across the caldera.
The obvious solution is Socialism and third world immigration...
So now there's a time of year in which volcanoes become active? I never knew that........
Every question answered. Yes, it would be a civilization ending moment, but that moment is likely going to occur long after humanity will have no fear from it.
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/yellowstone/yellowstone_sub_page_55.html
Click-bait - just a bare outline at site - no real info, limited speculation.
Does not address effects of a Yellowstone event on the rest of the world; conflates several other minor volcanoes eruptions with a Yellowstone event. Fails to mention Yellowstone’s active mate in western Siberia, Russia. Ignores possibility of the dormant super volcano in North Dakota, USA becoming active again.
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel FINE!
Erik Klemetti, vulcanologist at Denison University ends ‘Keep an Eye Out for These Volcanoes in 2016’ with
(P.S. One volcano that has nearly zero chance of an eruption in 2016? Yellowstone. Take that to the bank.)
That’s either a blessing or a curse (jinx)
http://www.wired.com/2016/01/keep-an-eye-out-for-these-volcanoes-in-2016/
Here is a question for my knowledgeable fellow Freepers: In Iceland they have tapped into the geo-thermal layer for both heat and power. Could we not do the same? After all the Yellowstone Caldera has enormous energy, useful if harnessed.
I can’t make myself care about a potentiality so massive. “So what” is my automatic attitude. A super volcano blast would be it’s own thing.
New Madrid Fault is of concern to me. But not obsessed with it. Memphis to Vicksburg and N to St Louis. Bad news...
I wish there was a finer timeline on these events. We’re scheduling the “Griswold” family trips for the upcoming year and would love to know the upcoming dates of this death and destruction so we can schedule around them.
If Yellowstone finally blows, WE become not the millions, but we will become the animals.
And here our administration told us man made globull warmung was our greatest threat...
We can stop the volcano from erupting if we load a new tax on the middle class.