Long Valley Supervolcano
I’ll see your CONvid and raise you an eruption.
How do you “burn liquid rock”?
No wonder Pelosi is moving to Florida. Someone must have tipped her off.
Will coastal CA slide under the Pacific if this happens?
Asking for a friend ...
Eruptions have consequences.............................
It’s about 100 miles east of San Francisco.
Why, how and when heat and and huge amounts of polluting gases emanate from the core of the earth is simply not scientifically understood. At best instruments seem to tell when really big eruptions are about to happen. The amount of heat and gasses released has more to do with climate change, arctic, antarctic ice thickness and the fate of polar bears than any other single factor.
Uh-oh, sounds like a another crisis! /s
The USGS has it rated as very high.
Yellowstone is rated high.
https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/long-valley-caldera/
BTW, there is magma in the hills around there that is higher than the valley floor.
I know this is strange - because most liberal hysteria is BS - but this one concerns me...
I don’t know where I’m a-gonna go when the volcano blow.
But, could it blow someone’s mask off and cause COVID to spread?
Note Mt St Helens in 1980 down in lower left corner at 0.25 CK{cubic kilometers} (VEI=5 each step in the scale representing an explosivity increase of 10X) and Pinatubo in 1991 at 5 CK (VEI=7).
Long Valley 580 CK of dense rock last major eruption - small as super volcanoes go. Ash thickness at 16 kilometers = at least several meters.
Wah Wah Springs, Utah - 30,000,000 years ago 5,500 CK at estimated VEI of 8
DRIVING TIMES and DISTANCES
Bakersfield - 4.5 hours - 260 miles
Death Valley - 4 hours - 214 miles
Fresno - 4 hours - 200 miles - 6.5* hours - 357 miles
Las Vegas - 5.5 hours - 377 miles
Los Angeles - 5.5 hours - 325 miles
Reno - 3 hours - 164 miles
Sacramento - 5 hours - 290 miles
San Diego - 6.5 hours - 400 miles
San Francisco - 5.5 hours - 300 miles - 7* hours - 360 miles
Santa Barbara - 6.5 hours - 376 miles
Tioga Pass - 0.75 hours - 45 miles (*Hwy.120 closed in winter)
Yosemite Valley - 2.5 hours - 100 miles (*Hwy.120 closed in winter)
And pyroclastic flows usually don't take the highway.
Can I find this written in comprehensible English?
Ever Simple English will work.
Is it possible to drill into magma to release it in less explosive events? I know it is deep, but the alternative is not a good one.
June Lake Loop is one of the prettiest areas. Too bad it’s in CA.