[RANGERAIRBORNE]

Absolutely correct- and I have seen some published data that may indicate that Yellowstone is getting ready to surprise us again- if it does, it will make all the natural disasters since the founding of this country seem insignificant.

[RightWhale]

If Yellowstone blows, it will be a golden opportunity. Buy land immediately afterwards. You could own an entire township. In a few years, if you have made a good deal, you will be highly pleased with how the land is coming along.

[Mike Darancette]

- if it does, it will make all the natural disasters since the founding of this country seem insignificant.

Try human history!

[dirtboy]

if it does, it will make all the natural disasters since the founding of this country seem insignificant.

The ash from Mt. St. Helens was a couple of inches deep a hundred miles away. Geologists have found ash deposits sixty feet deep a hundred miles away from Yellowstone. Throw in all the flood basalts that the Yellowstone hot spot has deposited across the NW United States and you have one very nasty geological system - one that goes off about every 600,000 years (and it's been about that long since the last event). However, human history being what it is, we could easily have 50,000 years until the next event - or five. We just don't know - a supervolcano hasn't erupted in recorded human history, so we don't have a good picture what the warning signs will be.