Posted on 05/02/2016 7:59:07 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Although fears of a Yellowstone volcanic blast go viral every few years, there are better things to worry about than a catastrophic supereruption exploding from the bowels of Yellowstone National Park.
Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Yellowstone Volcano Observatory always pooh-pooh these worrisome memes, but that doesn't mean researchers are ignoring the possible consequences of a supereruption. Along with forecasting the damage, scientists constantly monitor the region for signs of molten rock tunneling underground. Scientists scrutinize past supereruptions, as well as smaller volcanic blasts, to predict what would happen if the Yellowstone Volcano did blow.
Here's a deeper look at whether Yellowstone's volcano would fire up a global catastrophe.
Probing Yellowstone's past Most of Yellowstone National Park sits inside three overlapping calderas. The shallow, bowl-shaped depressions formed when an underground magma chamber erupted at Yellowstone. Each time, so much material spewed out that the ground collapsed downward, creating a caldera. The massive blasts struck 2.1 million, 1.3 million and 640,000 years ago. These past eruptions serve as clues to understanding what would happen if there was another Yellowstone megaexplosion. [Yellowstone and Yosemite: Two of the World's Oldest National Parks
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It would be a lot easier to get a reservation at the Old Faithful Inn. The bad news is that the room would be in Oklahoma.
I'm guessing the last thing we'd be worrying about would be politics and it would kill illegal immigration instantly...
It would be called “the worst instance of global warming based racism in the Common Era”.
Oh, and Donald Trump.
Watch, eventually he will have caused “Global Warming”.
It would end the war on women because there wouldn’t be any left. Or men. Our luck, there’d probably be an enclave of queers in some underground bunker who would survive, but couldn’t carry on the species even though they were “married”.
[It would super suck.]
In Soviet Russia, park visits YOU!!!
I’m worried about the disparate impact on the LGBT community.
One of its most recent eruptions laid incandescent hot ash flow tuff south of Amarillo TX.
From a documentary I saw it would lead to an enormous loss of life and extremely bad consequences for Western Civilization.
I hope I’m remembering the documentary wrong, what is the consequences on agriculture and everything east of Wyoming....
Really not good let’s hope it waits for a while.
Your homeowner’s and car insurance likely does not cover supervolcano damage.
With all DUE respect to these super scientists working for the USGS, I read the chart that is presented as being about >1,000 mm. I believe that that indicated ash depth is closer to 39 inches than it is to 4 inches. I used the darkest blue area of the chart. Are these the same guys that destroyed that river a few months back???
LOL, I was going to write a whole paragraph, but...your response describes it perfectly in four words...:)
Oh my!
What if=what with!
Sorry....voice to text
A setback for social justice?
Heh, good one...
That is what I hear....
Local warming followed by global cooling.
Well, depending on the size of the eruption...
If it’s a big one, or even a medium one, within a week we’d have 50 million dead.
If it is a biggie, within a month 200-300 million dead.
A bug supervolcano is just as bad as an EMP. Maybe due to the SO2, even worse!
Sounds like a flagrant case of yellow privilege, if ya ask me.
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