so basically we're doomed. Israel invades the middle east, the big volcano blows out and california drops into the sea.

From TFA
"There is a much lower potential for related volcanic activity.

Paranoid much, subby?

From the YVO website:
What type of eruption will occur if Yellowstone erupts again?
Yellowstone's volcanic and hydrothermal history suggests the potential for various kinds of eruptions in the future. The likelihood of a certain type of eruption occurring in the future can be judged by how often eruptions have occurred in the past.

The most likely type of eruption would not be volcanic but, rather, hydrothermal. This type of small, but still explosive eruption can occur from shallow reservoirs of steam or hot water rather than molten rock. These reservoirs are the sources of Yellowstone's famous geysers, hot springs, and fumaroles. Such explosions could blast out shallow craters more than a kilometer wide; as has occurred in the northern Yellowstone Lake Basin, including Mary Bay and nearby Turbid Lake and Indian Pond, and in western Yellowstone National Park north of Old Faithful. Each of these craters was produced by steam blasts within the past few thousand years.

The most likely type of volcanic eruption at Yellowstone would produce lava flows of either rhyolite or basalt; rhyolitic lava eruptions could also include explosive phases that might produce significant volumes of volcanic ash and pumice. Such eruptions could range in size from smaller than the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens through much larger than the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption.

The least likely but worst-case volcanic eruption at Yellowstone would be another explosive caldera-forming eruption such as those that occurred 2.1 million, 1.3 million, and 640,000 years ago. However, the probability of such an eruption in any given century or millennium is exceedingly low- much lower than the smaller eruptions mentioned above.

Oh, and Yellowstone has probably had swarms of earthquakes like this in the period after its last eruption but before they could be measured. It didn't erupt then---why should it now?

Everybody PICNIC!!!

LordOfThePings :

Everybody PICNIC!!!

Hey!

Don't worry these guys are on it.

Since this seems to becoming a common theme, here is an overview of the previous threads on this topic.

We're all going to die. Dec 30, 2008: Link (new window)

It's all OK. Jan 2, 2009: Link (new window)

We're all gonna die. Sep 5, 2003: Link (new window)

We're all gonna die. Sep 10, 2003: Link (new window)

It's all OK. Apr 28, 2004: Link (new window)

We might die soon. May 7, 2005: Link (new window)

We're all gonna die. May 10, 2005: Link (new window)

We're all gonna die. Mar 2, 2006: Link (new window)

We're all gonna die. Jan 5, 2007: Link (new window)

We're all gonna die. Mar 14 2007: Link (new window)

We're all gonna die. May 6 2007: Link (new window)

We're all gonna die. Nov 8 2007: Link (new window)

I'm going to go with 'We're all gonna die.'

Tr0mBoNe: I'm going to go with 'We're all gonna die.'

Except you missed the "We're gonna die, but not just yet" from yesterday, which makes this article rather silly.

Sweet,

Two Dogs Farking: Tr0mBoNe: I'm going to go with 'We're all gonna die.'

Except you missed the "We're gonna die, but not just yet" from yesterday, which makes this article rather silly.

Hahahha Nice. I guess the search missed it.

I think we're in for some really cool natural disasters in the future. Or everything will stay the same. It's all random anyway.

Weaver95: and california drops into the sea

So, there's a silver lining?

So I'm finally going to be able to live out my dream and carve out a fiefdom in the ruins of New England? Sweet.

I don't own a gun, but I know how to make beer, wine and 'shine, so I am getting a kick out of this.

Hope the eruption doesn't spoil the scenery too much.

This guy is ready

Should we get to da choppa?

Paris1127: It didn't erupt then---why should it now?

why should it ever ?

Tr0mBoNe, you have to remember that the media doesn't like to report the "We're all going to live" stories. They don't boost ratings. In order to keep people on their websites/subscribing to newspapers/watching their channels, they need to make everybody panic.

Meh, I'm not really going to miss most of that.

OH NOES! TEH GLOBAL LAVA-ING!! HALPUS ALGORE HALP US!!!

This thing won't get legs until somebody figures how to spin it for profit

You know all those big earthquakes they've been having in Asia?

All that tectonic activity on the opposite side of the planet is the run up to the Yellowstone Supervolcano going *boom*.

The US Geological Survey website reports all this activity as highly localized, which kinda spoils the supervolcano angle.

I knew SCO would cause the end of the world


//obscure?

Aarontology: So I'm finally going to be able to live out my dream and carve out a fiefdom in the ruins of New England? Sweet.

Damn, I was just thinking the same thing, except in my hometown of Virginia. You wan't to join in an alliance? I send up grain and grown foodstuffs up to your place, and you send down fish and lumber from the up North. Sound good? One thing though: Hope diamond is mine. You can have the giant sheet of copper though from the natural history museam, and manybe some other stuffs.

a migration of recent earthquakes toward the north.

Our new superweapon has been discovered, but you are still doomed, Alberta. We will have your precious tar sands.

So winter up here will last a couple more months than usual, eh. Good thing there's an oilfield nearby and Edmonton's refinery row will be untouched. We'll have us some snowbownd Mad Max shiat happening.

/note to self: get them big knobby snow tires. And more ammo.

More like the new economy would be based on stone knives and bear skins.

abb3w: Weaver95: and california drops into the sea

So, there's a silver lining?

Yes. And you picked it out.

Meh, I will go with We're all going to die but not from this. Some of our more distant decendants might die from it though.

This will definately fix that pesky global warming problem:

Yellowstone: Supervolcano (new window)

Can't Superman just fly into the earth and push some dirt around to fix these earthquakes like in Superman 1? And if that doesn't work, spin the world backwards and correct everything before it goes wrong? These answers seem so simple, do I have to think of everything?

Yellowstone is how the midwest tries to be as cool as the Pacific coast with their awesome earthquakes and volcanoes


weird form of jealousy

/don't see Californians pining for a hurricane or tornado

Can't we drill a hole and relieve some of the pressure?

Wouldn't it be funny if we spent the next 50 years not producing any greenhouse gases till the climate was pre-industrial, and then this thing goes off the next day and cooks the world.

/well, not so much funny ha-ha...

Weaver95: so basically we're doomed. Israel invades the middle east, the big volcano blows out and california drops into the sea.

I'm trying to find the down side of this.

/Masshole

Hey Weaver95, California can't fall into the ocean, the fault line between it and the rest of the US is a stike-slip fault. They are moving horizontal to each other, not apart. To many lousy movies feed America's ignorance.

Not that it matters of course because if the Yellowstone caldera blows, it will kill us all anyways.

/Good thing shells are on sale at Academy Sports this weekend.

Imagine the cheering going on in the Arab world and Fark upon such an eruption?

An economy based on liquor and fire arms huh? Better call this guy



Just dont say anything about his donkey.

One Thirty-two and Bush: Can't we drill a hole and relieve some of the pressure?

Wouldn't it be funny if we spent the next 50 years not producing any greenhouse gases till the climate was pre-industrial, and then this thing goes off the next day and cooks the world.

/well, not so much funny ha-ha...

Well I don't speak for everyone but certainly my last moments would be considerably lightened by a pleasurable appreciation of the irony. Then I'd be dashed against a rock and drowned.

For those who didn't find the link, here's a video map of the earthquake activity (new window - not a RR etc...)

FTA: "Eruptions are far enough apart that there is a very low probability of the next eruption happening in our lifetimes or anytime soon," Daniel Dzurisin of the USGS told me in 2006. "The flipside is: [Yellowstone] has been active for millions of years and it's going to erupt again sometime."

Hopefully its more like Fallout 3 instead of The Road.

Subby is building a resume for the mainstream media.

Weaver95: and california drops into the sea.

That'll be the day I'll go back to Annandale.

Cool. I have yet another reason to max out my credit cards, drain my bank accounts and head to Vegas to wait for "the end" ...

A few days ago, we had a 3.5 Earthquake here in Pennslyvania, amazingly enough the authorities pinpointed it to 2 miles directly some guy's mailbox in Salunga, Pa. (That's actually what I heard.)



/Wondering how his mail servive is these days.

The terra-ists have won!

That's directly BELOW his mailbox

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/megavolcano/about.html

saw this on PBS a couple of years ago....liquor, firearms & don't forget Spam

The US wouldn't emerge a winner there since like half the landmass is in the "really sucks to be you" zone.

But I don't even fear that so much. If it happens, it happens.



What annoys me is that all these angry Muslims will turn all smug with "Allah has smited the infidels for their evil ways as promised to us" and all.

Thunderpipes: Imagine the cheering going on in the Arab world and Fark upon such an eruption?

C'mon, Thunderpipes, you were all right in the winter school break thread, why do you gotta be an asshat in this thread? Nobody was talking about Arabs, and it's the sign of a butthurt conservatool to grumble about how Fark hates America.