[ctdonath2]

That would be bad in a way that would make the Krakatoa eruption look like dinner theater. It would make Mt St Helen look like a controlled burn. It would look like the alternate ending to _Armageddon_; heck, it would be Armageddon.

[hal ogen]

Sweet.

[onona]

That would be bad in a way that would make the Krakatoa eruption look like dinner theater. It would make Mt St Helen look like a controlled burn. It would look like the alternate ending to _Armageddon_; heck, it would be Armageddon.

With time for some of us to say, adios. Others, not so much.

[gleeaikin]

In the last roughly 2 million years Y has had 3 major blowouts and around 70 lesser ones.

http://www.livescience.com/33330-yellowstone-caldera-supervolcano-eruption.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120501-yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption-science-ellis/

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/08/yellowstone/achenbach-text

The “hot spot” responsible for the Yellowstone caldera has erupted dozens of times in the past, going back some 18 million years. Since the hot spot is rooted deep in the Earth, and the tectonic plate above it is moving southwest, ghostly calderas from the more ancient explosions are strung out like a series of gigantic beads across southern Idaho and into Oregon and Nevada, the subsequent lava flows forming the eerie moonscapes of the Snake River Plain.