About 4 years ago a Richter 5 hit the pluton below Yellowstone. Long dormant geysers are coming back to life again, big time. Yellowstone Lake is being rapidly pushed out of its bed, to the south. The land is rising by (measured)millimeters month by month.
Yellowstone erupts every 600,000 years on the average, and it's been 630,000 years since the last major eruption, although there have been some 30 minor eruptions in the interval. So it's looking more and more like a NATURAL nuclear winter will not only cover the midwest bread basket with ash, but take out 99+% of the human race as well.
This has happened before of course. The tabu(sp?)supervolcano in indonesia 74,000 years ago almost completely wiped out homo sapien, it shows up in our mitochrondial DNA : between 70,000 and 80,000 years ago the population was reduced to just 200-400 individuals(it was that close to extinction for us).
DefSec Cohen referred to the scalar beam weapon that can cause earthquakes as well as weather control(like steering hurricanes ala katrina). The Yakusa(japanese mafia)were supposedly involved with the rented russian SBW which caused the Richter 5 Yellowstone Quake. Sounds far out, yes? How often is truth stranger than fiction?
I've read that the group which set off the Tokyo sarin gas attack used the SBW to set off the Kyoto earthquake.
I was watching a show about the Yellowstone supervolcano once, though, and I remember one scientist saying that it was unlikely to ever happen again with the same magnitude because the area of magma under Yellowstone has been moving for years, albeit slowly, and will be partly under the mountains after a while, and will be less likely to erupt with the same force because it won't be under a relatively thinner area of crust. Don't know, but it sounds plausible.
We were at Yellowstone back in 2003, when they had to close some areas because they were overheating. The map of the park shows, with a dotted line, the outline of the caldera, but you don't need that to know when you've crossed the line. The land changes, and you see what looks like chalky or salty areas along with the fumeroles continually bleeding steam into the air above ground. It is truly a sight to behold!