Yellowstone Park Supervolcano

[Jason]

"THE YELLOWSTONE SUPER VOLCANO

It is little known that lying underneath one of The United States largest and most picturesque National Parks - Yellowstone Park - is one of the largest "super volcanoes" in the world. Beneath Yellowstone and it's spectacular landscape of hot springs and geysers is this hot spot, an upwelling plume of melted rock from the Earth's mantle, and it is waiting to erupt. In recent years it has been discovered that Yellowstone is one of a few known examples of a supervolcano. These volcanoes erupt only rarely; but with a force at least 1000 times that of ordinary volcanoes. Try to imagine 1000 volcanoes erupting in the same place at the same time. Now sceintists warn that the Yellowstone supervolcano may be getting ready to erupt! According to some, there is a 30% chance that Yellowstone will blow its cork soon, and cause devastation that would seem unimaginable.

If a fissure occurs in the rock beneath the park, everyone within 600 miles should be prepared for a sudden blast. There may be no precursor quakes prior to a blast at Yellowstone Supervolcano. If it fully blows, there will be no life within 600 miles, except for those people who have prepared a place underneath the ground. Dust masks would also be a nessessity. Even airplanes within the area could be blown out of the sky according to Larry Park, an earthquake researcher. If the Supervolcano blows, it will cause an immediate nuclear winter of dirt and ash in the air over the entire world for 2 years. He also stated that there will be no crops grown in the midwest U.S. for that same period of time.

Larry Parks warns that people within that 600 miles should make preparations to survive the possible blast. There is a bulge over 100 feet high in the bottom of Yellowstone Lake. The area under the northern end of the lake near Mary Bay has a bulge that could have been formed by carbon dioxide or steam. The bulge, which is about 2,100 feet long, has been formed only within the last few years. "We're thinking this structure could be a precursor to a hydrothermal explosive event." The explosion would send ash, dust, and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, reflecting the sun's rays and creating a cold wave lasting several years. Crops in many areas would fail and many species of animals and plants would face extinction. The last eruption shot a column of volcanic ash and gases high into Earth's stratosphere. This volcanic cloud circled the globe many times and affected Earth's climate by reducing the intensity of solar radiation reaching the lower atmosphere and surface. Fine volcanic ash that fell downwind from the eruption site blanketed much of North America.

This ash layer is still preserved in deposits as far away as Iowa, where it is a few inches thick, and the Gulf of Mexico, where it is recognizable in drill cores from the sea floor. Lava flows have since buried and obscured most of the caldera, but the underlying processes responsible for Yellowstone's tremendous volcanic eruptions are still at work. These supervolcanoes occur over "hot spots" in the Earth and they could erupt causing catastrophic explosions, sending hundreds to thousands of cubic kilometers of ash into the atmosphere, and wreaking climatic havoc on a global scale. As the plume of hot, liquid rock rises in the Earth, it melts the Earth's crust and creates large magma chambers. These magmas usually erupt in a very catastrophic way. By comparison, the eruption of Mount St. Helens sent about two cubic kilometers of ash into the atmosphere. These catastrophic types of eruptions send thousands of cubic kilometers of ash skyward.

The hot spot deep beneath Yellowstone acts like a burner. It's a constant source of heat that acts on the upper crust and forms magma chambers that contain tens of thousands of cubic kilometers of molten rock. Such an eruption would disrupt global climate by injecting millions of tons of ash into the atmosphere. Some of the ash would remain in the atmosphere for years, reflect sunlight back into space and cool the planet, significantly affecting life. In addition, a blanket of ash over a meter thick would be deposited in regions within 600 miles, and effectively smother life there."

Source: http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/VOLCANO.html

Even though it's a geocities source, it's still credible. Just do a google search on 'Yellowstone supervolcano'. All the results say pretty much the same thing.

Anyways..A volcano that can destroy most of the US, and **** up the world..holy **** would that be insane. Thoughts?

[shimshimheyxD]

but the qeustion is, when?

[B)ushid(o]

The Midwest/Rocky Mountain areas are such a nice places, too.

[Silynt Rage]

Bah, I'm not worried, I live in upstate New York, I've got some time even if it explodes tomorrow. Someone has been watching the discovery channel

[Darkmatter]

That's fairly insane, VizjereiMage. If anything bad happens, to the degree of endangering me and people I care about, I'm flying to Australia and living with Renzokuken.

[Wing Zero]

theres another somewere near europe and africa that if it blows makes a tidel wave owning wing

[RuneyPoo]

Originally Posted by Silynt Rage

Bah, I'm not worried, I live in upstate New York, I've got some time even if it explodes tomorrow. Someone has been watching the discovery channel

Just think of a Nuclear Winter inside of New York... We already have Lake Ontario and Erie, think about no sun at all mixed with our lake winters/blizzards... Wouldn't that suck for us Silynt?

Anyways, where in Upstate you live? I live in Lockport... :\

[shimshimheyxD]

Hago ash surfing. Es muy muy facil y divertido. Yo tengo los guantes de esqui, las botas, y camista. El ash surfing estacion esta en Nueva York. Es en la Empire State. Es 1 mile! Esqui Fondo!!!

[Silynt Rage]

Originally Posted by Runexten

Just think of a Nuclear Winter inside of New York... We already have Lake Ontario and Erie, think about no sun at all mixed with our lake winters/blizzards... Wouldn't that suck for us Silynt?

Anyways, where in Upstate you live? I live in Lockport... :\

Well, currently I'm at college at RIT in Rochester, but the rest of the time I live about a 20 minute drive away from Utica.

if the winter turns out to be anything like this past winter was, then I'm not going to be too worried.

[Lizardbreath]

They have spoken about this before...me and my family went up there and they believe that it should go off in the next 100 years...when it does...a lot of people are going to die. Same goes for the one next to mexico city...they believe that one should be going off soon.

[RuneyPoo]

Originally Posted by Silynt Rage

Well, currently I'm at college at RIT in Rochester, but the rest of the time I live about a 20 minute drive away from Utica.

if the winter turns out to be anything like this past winter was, then I'm not going to be too worried.

RIT, good technical college to go to. I plan on going to Bryant and Stratton once I get back into school. Anyways, my friend was harrassed be a girl who goes there, he wouldn't say I love you to her so she threatened to kill herself. Lol...

My mom also dated someone from Utica, his parents own some antique shop or something like that... Cool little store...

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OT: Yellowstone Erruption most likely wont happen for awhile, as it let's out enough disturbance when the geysers go off... Hopefully that is...

[Homem mAIOR]

Well it's not exactlly as VizJizzedOnCrotsFaceMage puts it... the fact is that there is 25Mm^3 of magmatic material underneath yellowstone... the thing is no one knows how much of the material is eruptable... it could be nothing or, it could spray ash from there to europe all around the northern emisfery... So, we just can't tell.
Btw.: Australia isn't solution either! It will have temp drops areound 20 degrees because of the change in the wind and termical vectors due to the glatialization in the north (considering the worst case scenario.)

[Jason]

They say there is a 30% chance it could erupt by 2012. Also, moving out of the US isn't exactly saving you from anything, Darkmatter. There are currently supervolcanoes all over including New Mexico, California, New Zealand, Indonesia, Siberia, etc.

If this happened it would be ****ing awesome. Not saying I want it to happen, but do you know how cool it would be to survive something like this and say that you were a survivor? Holy freaking crap, lol..

Hmm..I can't wait until April 10th at 8:00PM. "Supervolcano" is on. It's a 2 hour special on what it would be like if the volcano actually erupted. Gonna be sweet. ^^;

[-Azrael666-]

I don't think DM's point was that he would somehow be saved, but rather that it'd give him an excuse to go see Renzo, especially if it would be getting the people he cares about out of immediate danger.

[jd-inflames]

I wouldn't want it to happen just because you "survived" it. Most of the world would have survived it while billions would be dead. You wouldn't be special for not being dead, while those who are dead...are well...dead. Is that what you want?

We have warnings about this stuff all the time. I'll believe it when I see it.

[LuNa[eP]]

I don't think this is really going to affect me here in Brazil... hot chicks will still live even w/o sun =)