Volcanoes Erupt!

[David]

After performing my extremely careful evaluative comparison of the data given for all the volcanoes in the USA, I predict they will all start erupting in the next few weeks.

[amber]

I heard St. Helens is due really soon.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by David

After performing my extremely careful evaluative comparison of the data given for all the volcanoes in the USA, I predict they will all start erupting in the next few weeks.

Given that Mt. St. Helen has been grumbling for a few months and the big eruption they predicted - you may very well be right. Also, the one in Mexico just had some major activity.

[David]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Given that Mt. St. Helen has been grumbling for a few months and the big eruption they predicted - you may very well be right. Also, the one in Mexico just had some major activity.

How many volcanoes are in the United States? One hundred & fifty? They will all start erupting by the end of next week.

Mexico will be all right.

Remember the word "edict" is in the word "predict" -- even though the accent is on the penult.

Love,
Auntie Penult

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by David

How many volcanoes are in the United States? One hundred & fifty? They will all start erupting by the end of next week.

Mexico will be all right.

Remember the word "edict" is in the word "predict" -- even though the accent is on the penult.

Love,
Auntie Penult

edit: I am laughing auntie comment - not the subject

[madformac]

If Yellowstone goes up bigtime you're all screwed, so best to get the beers in now!

[GardenStateGirlie]

I love that I get my news from David before it's released on yahoo

New reports on Indonesia...

"Super volcano" could dwarf Indonesia's earthquake catastrophes: expert

SYDNEY - As Indonesians struggled to recover from the second deadly earthquake to strike them in three months, an Australian expert warned the country faced the prospect of a "super volcano" eruption that would dwarf all previous catastrophes.

Professor Ray Cas of Monash University's School of Geosciences said the world's biggest super volcano was Lake Toba, on Indonesia's island of Sumatra, site of both the recent massive earthquakes.

Cas told Australian media Friday that Toba sits on a faultline running down the middle of Sumatra -- just where some seismologists say a third earthquake might strike following the 9.0 magnitude quake on December 26 and Monday's 8.7 temblor.

Those quakes occurred along faultlines running just off Sumatra's west coast and created seismological stresses which could hasten an eruption.

Cas said Toba last erupted 73,000 years ago in an event so massive that it altered the entire world's climate.

"The eruption released 1,000 cubic kilometers (240 cubic miles) of ash and rock debris into the atmosphere, much of it as fine ash which blocked out solar radiation, kicking the world back into an ice age," he said.

The scientist said super volcanos represented the greatest potential hazard on earth, "the only greater threat being an asteroid impact from space".

"A super volcano will definitely erupt," he said.

"It could be in a few, 50 or another 1000 years but sooner or later one is going to go off."

Other super volcanos are found in Italy, South America, the United States and New Zealand -- where Mount Taupo could be ready for eruption.

"It has a big eruption every 2,000 years, and it last erupted about 2,000 years ago," Cas said.

The potential death toll from a super volcano eruption "could reach the hundreds of thousands to millions and there are serious implications on climate, weather and viability of food production," Cas said.


"The big problem is a lot of the volcanoes that potentially could erupt are perhaps not monitored to the degree that they should be, and of course we learnt that lesson from the Boxing Day tsunami disaster," he said.

[amber]

I have to say, what you just posted is definitely freaking me out.

"Cas said Toba last erupted 73,000 years ago in an event so massive that it altered the entire world's climate.

"The eruption released 1,000 cubic kilometers (240 cubic miles) of ash and rock debris into the atmosphere, much of it as fine ash which blocked out solar radiation, kicking the world back into an ice age," he said."

[madformac]

Saw a programme on TV a couple of weeks ago about the huge magma chamber under Yellowstone National Park. Aparently scientists have found that it has erupted into a super volcano every 600,000 years for the last 1,800,000 years. The ground temperature has risen significantly in the last two years and satellite imagery has shown the surface to start pushing up quite quickly and the ground to form a large raised area over many miles. It will explode for sure at some point and if the temperature is right it will ignite a super volcano with an eruption the size of tokyo

If this were to happen it has the potential to wipe out 1/3 of the States and cause a global "nuclear winter" which scientists are predicting to last for between 10 and 200 years. Great..

So we've established the ground is getting hot, the earth is rising and there has been a super volcano eruption in Yellowstone every 600,000 years....

So,

when was the last one?

640,000 years ago...

My advice is anyone within 1500 miles of Yellowstone get some serious sunscreen lotion.. As for the rest of us, better start buying that thermal underwear...

[DrummerDeanna]

Um so this thread has officially given me an ulcer and high blood pressure....

This stuff FREAKS me out....

On the bright side...perhaps I won't have to pay my credit card and student loans off

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

Um so this thread has officially given me an ulcer and high blood pressure....

This stuff FREAKS me out....

On the bright side...perhaps I won't have to pay my credit card and student loans off

Lord Child - if it happens, I hope I am standing on the spot of the eruption - just like I hope the nuclear missle lands on me if it happens. Who would want to live through that only to die later from the fallout.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Wow, very scary! First the Pope gone now this!

You have freaked me out

[amber]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Lord Child - if it happens, I hope I am standing on the spot of the eruption - just like I hope the nuclear missle lands on me if it happens. Who would want to live through that only to die later from the fallout.

hear, hear.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Lord Child - if it happens, I hope I am standing on the spot of the eruption - just like I hope the nuclear missle lands on me if it happens. Who would want to live through that only to die later from the fallout.

And that goes for me too!!!

[ontheEdgeof17]

Yay. Wow. I can't for this to happen.