Yellowstone’s supervolcano – worse than we thought

Watts Up With That? ^ | April 12, 2011 | Anthony Watts

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Comments on this Website's article always worth reading.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[BigEdLB]

It will be a BIG boom...

[Red Badger]

2012.....................

[Red Badger]

[sodpoodle]

The Government needs to prohibit smoking in that place!

[Main Street]

Great! Just what we need, another mega catastrophe. As if I’m not depressed enough!

[Jim W N]

Think of it as really big electroshock therapy, guaranteed to cure what ails you.

[Celtic Cross]

If that thing goes off, I don't think many people on this continent will be around to feel depressed.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related thread:

Are the Yellowstone and Long Valley Calderas About to Blow?

[east1234]

“Smaller eruptions occurred at Yellowstone in between the big blasts and as recently as 70,000 years ago.”

First I’ve heard of this, up until now they only mentioned massive eruptions every million yrs or so. I’ll put a dollar on maybe a small eruption in the next 1000 yrs.

[Twotone]

Yellowstone is a seriously scary place, but I'd love to go back...

[rockinqsranch]

Thanks for the ping EatB. Interesting. We knew it covered a lot of territory, but this is quite an eye opener for me.

[al baby]

E at the B I gotta tell ya that stuff fascinates me to no end thanks for posting

[SierraWasp]

Time to fuel up and fire up the old RV and set the GPS to your street address, Ernest!!! (grin) You got good hook-ups right next to your house??? (smirk)

[Noob1999]

......................The hotspot finally reached Yellowstone about 2 million years ago, yielding three huge caldera eruptions about 2 million, 1.3 million and 642,000 years ago........................

So it erupts about every 650,000 years!

Sounds like we’re about due for another one.

[Hatteras]

"The hotspot finally reached Yellowstone about 2 million years ago, yielding three huge caldera eruptions about 2 million, 1.3 million and 642,000 years ago."

So, we have what? 40,000 +/- years?

[Cicero]

If Yellowstone blows, we’re all cooked. Literally.

Fortunately, it only blows about once every 600,000 years.

Unfortunately, our country has been increasingly asking for something like this to happen.

Pray that it doesn’t.

[bopdowah]

We should be building power plants to take advantage of all the free heat below the surface.

[Red Badger]

Let’s drill a deep hole to let the pressure off...............;^)