[EveningStar]

Supervolcano

Yellowstone Caldera

[EveningStar]

ping

[BBB333]

It could never happen.

It’s a UN Heritage site!

We’ll just pay a bit more in taxes and shove that molten lava back into it hole.

Simple!

[Holagato]

SUVs emissions and celebrity selfies would have to go to the back burner for a while.

[BobL]

I’ve been to Yellowstone AT LEAST half a dozen times and I’ve been to many volcanoes. Yellowstone is NO VOLCANO - there’s no mountain. Just more of the liberals trying to SCARE people.

[4yearlurker]

I see a Sci-Fi Channel movie coming up.

[rigelkentaurus]

about 3/8 inch of ash for north Texas - wouldn’t that help enrich our soil and cool our summers for several years?

[Stand Watch Listen]

[minnesota_bound]

Yogi and Boo Boo will not make it out alive.

[Vinylly]

I’ve been through one volcano, Mt. St. Helen. They are no fun, specially when I read that Mt. Rainier is the highest of 57 volcano’s in the Cascades. The lowlands below Mt. Rainier are now vast housing developments, which could mean serious trouble here in the NW.

http://www.ccrh.org/comm/moses/image/mosel/ashclds.jpg

[CivilWarBrewing]

Why not? All kinds of other devastating things are happening within our lifetime.

[cloudmountain]

I hope it happens AFTER the World Series!

[webheart]

Business Insider is garbage. Why waste time speculating on something that has odds of 100,000:1 against?

[ken5050]

Well, for one thing, we wouldn’t have to worry about global warming anymore..

[Terry L Smith]

JeeperS!

One to three millimeters, almost half the thickness of a .223 bullet, is what would rain down upon my neck of the woods.

Do I feel relieved about that? No. Here’s why:
depending on the season, the cotton fields would get destroyed; the produce fields in Plaquemines Parish would have a bad go of it; the ash rain would cover the swamps, possibly destroying all vegetation, and all that lives in those waters, too; the ash rain falling on all the wooden framed housing might start a firestorm that Louisiana has not seen since the War of 1812.

Since there is no exact means to say when the caldera might blow, my concern would be, if it were to start when a major storm is coming ashore.

[AZLiberty]

"Thinking about a Yellowstone supereruption is like imagining a large asteroid hitting the Earth," says Jacob Lowenstern, a research geologist with the USGS and Scientist-in-Charge of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. "It could happen, but it's not something you can plan for or worry about, because it's such a low-probability event."

Then I guess I really shouldn't worry about a large asteroid hitting Yellowstone. But then, three days ago, I wasn't worried about 3.29 inches of rain falling within 5 hours on the Phoenix desert.

[The Unknown Republican]

1 in 100,000 odds? That’s not very comforting for those who play the Lotto.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

[Hebrews 11:6]

These dire predictions may be substantially understated. A physicist told me that if this thing really blows, everyone in a 1,000-mile radius has less than half an hour to live before the shock and heat arrive. Ash would be the least of our worries.

[UCANSEE2]

The fear of a Yellowstone supereruption, which ultimately went viral, may have begun back in February when a seismometer called B944 began sending senseless data to a public viewer at the University of Utah's seismographic station, as George Black reports in The New Yorker.

Maybe they should just replace the remote seismometer sensor.

[dennisw]

I am far away from the destruction zone so let’er rip!