[JimSEA]

This is an interesting idea. I'd always thought that the bouncy of the mainly felsic magma in comparison to the rock surrounding the magma pool and the large amount of gas and water would force the eruption to the surface. There the lack of containing rock would allow a monster eruption.

However this analysis of fault or roof collapse is quite logical as well. It would introduce a lot more unknowns into the study of monster volcanos. Faults are quite common and active in Yellowstone and Long Valley as a for instance. Not a reassuring thought.

[katana]

It does make sense as the precipitating cause for a massive caldera type eruption with a crater miles across, like past Yellowstone events.

[SpaceBar]

...we need better understanding of what triggers a supereruption...

= more money

[subterfuge]

Humans obviously cause super volcanos. Need more taxation.

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Of course they were triggered externally... by hydrogen bombs!

Basic Scientology

[Old Sarge]

[El Cid]

"It's very likely that supereruptions must be triggered by an external mechanism and not an internal mechanism, which makes them very different from the typical, smaller volcanoes that we monitor."

I say we need to get the EPA to start investigating this one as soon as possible!

[Yosemitest]

Predicting EarthQuakes 101( 3:23 )By BPEarthWatch
Published on Jun 16, 2015
The Fukushima Event, Actual Video of the X-Flare and 4 CME'S that caused the Fukushima Earthquake/Website Support Video.

[rockinqsranch]

This article reads like a setup by very cagey liberals who just know nobody will figure out that they are smokin’ our heads with BS so they can tap funding for more alleged study, and live happily ever after off the taxpayer’s dollars.

[TruthWillWin]

Set off by the aliens living inside the earth?

[Mike Darancette]

Extenal causation could mean that a supervolcano eruption could happen in a hurry.

[mdmathis6]

Steven Collins archeologist in his explorations of Tell Hamman (as the possible site of Sodom) dates it’s destruction, due to METEOR impact, at the exact same time as the Minoan empires’ destruction due to the explosion of Santorini! That’s what makes this article very interesting. The Psalms speaks of God as “touching the mountains causing them to smoke!”

Cultural artifacts found at the Tel Hamman site match what has be found of the Minoans; the evidences of high temperature heat and trinitite glass suggested a meteor impact. The dating of the impact appears to match that of the Santorini explosion. It seems God was at work taking out a great evil that would have hindered his plans for human history! A grouping of celestially hurled rocks striking Santorini and taking out the “cities of the plain”(affected a 500 square kilometer area of that part of the Jordan plain) at the same time....efficient and neat, quite the exclamation point of God’s power!

Now about that certain supervolcano caldera in the US North West......

[tanknetter]

Cracks are caused by things drying out.

Heat causes things to dry out.

Global Warming create more heat.

Therefore Global Warming will trigger super volcanoes.

Think thats enough to get a $5 million research grant?

[monocle]

Land tides could initiate such events.