Think of all the CO2 that will put into the atmosphere!
Volcanic winter of 536
Summer temperatures in 536 fell by as much as 2.5 °C (4.5 °F) below normal in Europe. The lingering impact of the volcanic winter of 536 was augmented in 539–540, when another volcanic eruption caused summer temperatures to decline as much as 2.7 °C (4.9 °F) below normal in Europe.
The study author Zhongwen Zhan said: ‘We don’t think the region is gearing up for another supervolcanic eruption, but the cooling process may release enough gas and liquid to cause earthquakes and small eruptions
The headline is so much more gripping than the text of the article itself
Oh it would stop the looting, without question.
Cubic miles, I’m assuming.
| Thank God all that ash will only land on LA and not hit the Bay Area. |  |
Authoress Stacy Liberatore wrote "...a super explosion 767,000 years ago, releasing 140 miles of volcanic material."
Do you think Stacy Dear knows the difference between a MILE and a CUBIC MILE? There's a wee bit of difference.
That does it. I’m moving to western Wyoming where it will be safe.
767,000? The Boeing eruption?
3,000 feet of ash , higher than Mount Everest , really ?
I have always thought that prevailing winds go west to east. So this caldera which is 250 mile northeast of LA and 180 miles due east of San Francisco are unlikely to be devastated as scaremongered in this article.
“California’s supervolcano that has the power to bury Los Angeles in more than 3,000 feet of ash is showing signs of activity.”
Given the location of the Long Valley Caldera, in northern California, the general wind directions in and accross California, the mountain rangees between the Long Valley Caldera and Los Angeles, I have my doubts an eruption at the Caldera can bury Los Angeles in 3,000 feet of ash.
But no doubt the title got more click bait than if it had said “bury the eastern California deserts in 3,000 feet of ash”.
Wherever I go I hope there’s rum!
Will Californians get a supervolcano tax ?
If it takes out Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Malibu canyon, I’m okay with that. Taking out Compton would be a bonus.
Super volcano is no joking matter. If it blows the ash will wipe just about everything out east of it. Only places that might avoid it would be Maine and very southern part of Florida.
25 years ago my wife and I were flying down to LA in our small airplane from the Seattle area. Poor weather caused us to have to head across the mountains first and then proceed South on the eastern side of the Cascades. The warm front that was blowing in from the Pacific was creating thunderstorms and we kept having to divert further and further to the East. Things finally began to clear up when we were over Northern Nevada and we turned back toward California. We flew back over the cascades which were completely covered by clouds into a strong headwind and severe bumpiness.
My wife pointed to the North at Mount Shasta, but then I noticed a cloud ahead of us that was actually a peak poking through higher than we were flying. It was Lassen Peak which reaches to approximately 10’500 feet above sea level. It is the volcano in California that erupted most recently in 1921. I had never heard of it before.
I’ve been hoping for one under Washington DC
3000 feet of ash is almost enough to cover the shxt that is LA.
No it was 768,001 years and 18 days exactly.
