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MALIA GRIGGS at the Daily Beast
https://www.thedailybeast.com/yellowstone-national-parks-supervolcano-may-blow-much-sooner-than-thought
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Researchers analyzing minerals in fossilized ash from the most recent mega-eruption of Yellowstone National Parks supervolcano say that it is due to blow up again much sooner than previously thoughtand may wipe life off Earth in a matter of decades, National Geographic reports.
The Arizona State University researchers have found that the supervolcano could potentially send out more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of ash, which is 2,500 times more material than blew from Mount St. Helens in 1980, The New York Times reports. This could cover most of the United States and force the entire planet into a volcanic winter.
The supervolcanos last giant eruption was over 630,000 years ago. This event created the 40-mile bowl that spans the Yellowstone park. This is not Earths only dormant supervolcano. Scientists guess that a supereruption occurs roughly every 100,000 years.
Geologists assumed that it would take hundreds of years for the next supervolcanic eruptionuntil now. The ASU researchers found in their analysis temperature changes and composition that have taken mere decades, instead of the expected centuries, and scientists are now realizing that the conditions that contribute to supereruptions could show within one lifetime.
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applegrove
(118,008 posts)affected. Is this what white supremacists mean when they worry about the destruction of the white race?
Me.
(35,454 posts)And HE will be gone for I believe the east coast will go
Eko
(7,170 posts)The west will get hit hardest although shortly after it wouldn't make much of a difference. Scary stuff though.
applegrove
(118,008 posts)I would not want to.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Saw a PBS show couple of years back, which said if there is enough pressure it could be like a nuke and would devastate the entire county.
The scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey's Yellowstone Volcano Observatory reassure that there isn't anything unusual going on under the park, and that the odds are that it won't erupt for centuries. But when the volcano eventually does blow, they say, it's going to be a gigantic event that will spew enough ash to blanket the Rocky Mountains with a layer that could be several feet thick, and send particles across the entire country, with some even reaching far-away cities such as New York and Washington, D.C.
https://www.seeker.com/if-yellowstone-supervolcano-erupts-ash-may-reach-nyc-1769025398.html
Beneath Yellowstone National Park lies a supervolcano, a behemoth far more powerful than your average volcano. It has the ability to expel more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of rock and ash at once 2,500 times more material than erupted from Mount St. Helens in 1980, which killed 57 people. That could blanket most of the United States in a thick layer of ash and even plunge the Earth into a volcanic winter.
https://www.seeker.com/if-yellowstone-supervolcano-erupts-ash-may-reach-nyc-1769025398.html
UTUSN
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GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)Ilsa
(61,675 posts)Vacuum cleaner. His version of reagan's trillion dollar boondoggle Star Wars.
The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)I don't blame her a bit. I'd do the same thing if I was her.
applegrove
(118,008 posts)MGKrebs
(8,138 posts)I know, I'm bad.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)in a weird sort of way.
applegrove
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bluestarone
(16,720 posts)to get rid of Moron. then so be it
KelleyKramer
(8,834 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)Like maybe enough time to say, "What was that noise?".
applegrove
(118,008 posts)misanthrope
(7,405 posts)Just like it did the previous times it erupted? Oh, wait that's right, those eruptions didn't.