I thought the Yellowstone volcano was the one that would kill everyone when it finally blows.
Well… Yellowstone probably would kill everybody… If Mount Rainier goes, it will probably just kill Seattle and the suburbs.
I mean, look at what Mount Vesuvius did to the “little“ town of Pompeii…
If I lived out there, I would be very concerned. I read something a while back where they did radar mapping of the ocean floors just off Seattle, and previous pyroclastic flows from Mount Rainier went right through Seattle into the ocean.
So, yeah. If I lived out there, I would be concerned.
Might not happen today. Might not happen tomorrow.
But it is going to happen someday.
The Yellowstone caldera is much larger than a volcano...
I have a softball sized piece of ‘lava rock’ from the last time the YNP caldera blew — it weighs about 15 pounds and flew about 70 miles. It was unearthed from a construction site during a deep dig (25 feet or so below the surface).
It took a lot of energy to through it that far, St Helens did not do anything like that.
“I thought the Yellowstone volcano was the one that would kill everyone when it finally blows.”
It’s not a volcano.
Everyone versus Lots