Think Pompeii Got Hit Hard? Worse Eruptions Lurk

Yahoo - Reuters ^ | 3-6-2006

[Bernard Marx]

the cable news networks haven't had a volcano to obsess about since Mt. St. Helens

You apparently haven't been seeing all the recent doom-and-gloom programs about the Yellowstone Caldera. The truth is, the human race lives every day in the shadow of some devastating natural disaster: volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornados, asteroid collisions...what am I leaving out? I'm amazed to learn, late in life, that it's the responsibility of Republican administrations to save us from all of them.

[Toby06]

There have been some really cool shows on that! Yeah, were due any day now, in the next 30,000 years or so,for another supereruption.

[Lurker]

Wait until Santorini, Krakatoa, or the Yellowstone Caldera go up again.

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[blam]

"...what am I leaving out? "

Of most immediate concern, Bird Flu.

[blam]

"Yeah, were due any day now, in the next 30,000 years or so,for another supereruption."

Yellowstone is 40,000 years over-due. Ahem, prepare now?

[SunkenCiv]

Move Over, Pompeii
Archaeology, Volume 55 Number 2 | March/April 2002 | Jarrett A. Lobell
Posted on 08/10/2004 1:03:10 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1188762/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[Centurion2000]

Wait until Santorini, Krakatoa, or the Yellowstone Caldera go up again

I only pray that we have a viable self sufficient civilization offworld by the time those goes up or we'll be rolling the dice for the survival of the human species.

Worldwide human survivors of the Tomu supervolcano eruption 74K ya were estimated at only 5000 or so.

[Torie]

The "preparation" for the Yellowstone blow, would require moving about 1000 miles away, and then hope the UN will be generous, because the US will be prostrate. The UN might not be generous, since the food supply world wide, will be truncated, as the sun for a long time becames rather invisible.

[Capt_Hank]

I was there in June.... I was really surprised to hear and see, excavation still going on.

[SunkenCiv]

Sorry, all, this is a topic from March. :'(

[blam]

"The UN might not be generous, since the food supply world wide, will be truncated, as the sun for a long time becames rather invisible."

Yup. Most of the people of the world would die, first from cold weather and then from starvation.

[Not A Snowbird]

Forget St. Helens. She's nothing compared to what Mt. Rainier can do.

We're doomed!

[Pyro7480]

I don't think I never asked to be put on your GGG ping list, so please put me on there. :-)

[blam]

Late Pleostocene Human Population Bottlenecks. . .(Toba)

[Ciexyz]

Katrina, the byword by which all natural disasters will now be judged.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, how can I refuse? ;')

[Bernard Marx]

Yellowstone is 40,000 years over-due. Ahem, prepare now?

It's not like hot-spot calderas are on any kind of real schedule. It may not erupt in another 40,000 years. I don't live too far from the Long Valley (Mammoth) caldera and it's been behaving strangely in recent decades. It may be getting ready. Or not. But they're measuring some ominous rises in ground levels.

Human lives are short compared to the long cycles of volcanoes and other natural phenomena and they always take us by surprise. Someday another generation of Italians in Herculaneum and Pompeii will be sacrificed to Vesuvius. As your Toba article makes clear, human existence on this planet is precarious at best.

[Centurion2000]

That was the one ... thanks for posting a reference.

[Kozak]

You left out Tambora (;)