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06 Jan 2014, 4:23 pm

http://tottenhamnews.org/sci-tech-3/mag ... -2248.html

IMO, we shouldn't start preparing immediately.


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06 Jan 2014, 6:07 pm

No executive summary?

In any event, repeat after me:

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06 Jan 2014, 7:44 pm

eric76 wrote:
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06 Jan 2014, 7:58 pm

Dont they claim we are well overdue for a Super volcano eruption at Yellowstone Park?



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06 Jan 2014, 8:20 pm

scary


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06 Jan 2014, 9:41 pm

Nambo wrote:
Dont they claim we are well overdue for a Super volcano eruption at Yellowstone Park?


And when she does blow very few people in North America will survive the after effects. The kind of ash put out by a pyroclastic flow behaves like cement when it gets into the moist parts of the airways. It hardens and the breath is asphyxiated. The only way to survive this is to be in a chamber with a super duper air filtration system that can sustain its occupants until the ash settles out of the atmosphere.

This nasty effect will occur world wide when the super volcano a Yellowstone blows. And there is not a bless thing we can do about stopping. We can only suppl.y some safe shelters for a portion of the population. The rest are going to die.

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06 Jan 2014, 10:11 pm

Maybe it's for the best. The human population in general sucks harder now than the vacuum of space, anyway. :hmph:



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06 Jan 2014, 10:21 pm

Nambo wrote:
Dont they claim we are well overdue for a Super volcano eruption at Yellowstone Park?


Anyone who claims that is either grossly misinformed or totally ignorant.



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06 Jan 2014, 10:28 pm

ruveyn wrote:
Nambo wrote:
Dont they claim we are well overdue for a Super volcano eruption at Yellowstone Park?


And when she does blow very few people in North America will survive the after effects. The kind of ash put out by a pyroclastic flow behaves like cement when it gets into the moist parts of the airways. It hardens and the breath is asphyxiated. The only way to survive this is to be in a chamber with a super duper air filtration system that can sustain its occupants until the ash settles out of the atmosphere.

This nasty effect will occur world wide when the super volcano a Yellowstone blows. And there is not a bless thing we can do about stopping. We can only suppl.y some safe shelters for a portion of the population. The rest are going to die.

ruveyn


That there will be another supervolcano eruption at Yellowstone is definitely not a certainty by any means, but if it should happen the area subject to pyroclastic flows should be relatively limited.

There will be ash in the air, but I don't think it will take a super duper air filtration system to survive for those more than a few hundred miles away. We would be pretty miserable for a while even indoors, but the bigger issue will be food and water.

In any event, there is no reason to expect any supervolcano eruption at Yellowstone in the next several thousand years and it is quite possible that there will never be another.



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06 Jan 2014, 10:29 pm

Fnord wrote:
eric76 wrote:
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07 Jan 2014, 1:00 am

Woohoo just like DBZ... :lol:

Seriously though, where else in the universe has a planet or moom blown up from magma pressure? I would guess there are many more planets and moons with much more magma pressure than Earth. All that pressure though could lead to a huge eruption instead...

Oh, but what's the next Doomsday Date? ....



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08 Jan 2014, 4:43 pm

Clicky.

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The hot molten rock beneath Yellowstone National Park is 2 ½ times larger than previously estimated, meaning the park's supervolcano has the potential to erupt with a force about 2,000 times the size of Mount St. Helens, according to a new study.

By measuring seismic waves from earthquakes, scientists were able to map the magma chamber underneath the Yellowstone caldera as 55 miles long, lead author Jamie Farrell of the University of Utah said Monday.


I wouldn't want to be in North America at that time.



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08 Jan 2014, 5:03 pm

MegaBass wrote:
Clicky.

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The hot molten rock beneath Yellowstone National Park is 2 ½ times larger than previously estimated, meaning the park's supervolcano has the potential to erupt with a force about 2,000 times the size of Mount St. Helens, according to a new study.

By measuring seismic waves from earthquakes, scientists were able to map the magma chamber underneath the Yellowstone caldera as 55 miles long, lead author Jamie Farrell of the University of Utah said Monday.


I wouldn't want to be in North America at that time.


Being elsewhere wont help much. The ash and particulate matter will block out the sun world wide and when the ash settles anyone not in a properly air filtered site will asphyxiate.

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08 Jan 2014, 5:18 pm

ruveyn wrote:
MegaBass wrote:
Clicky.

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The hot molten rock beneath Yellowstone National Park is 2 ½ times larger than previously estimated, meaning the park's supervolcano has the potential to erupt with a force about 2,000 times the size of Mount St. Helens, according to a new study.

By measuring seismic waves from earthquakes, scientists were able to map the magma chamber underneath the Yellowstone caldera as 55 miles long, lead author Jamie Farrell of the University of Utah said Monday.


I wouldn't want to be in North America at that time.


Being elsewhere wont help much. The ash and particulate matter will block out the sun world wide and when the ash settles anyone not in a properly air filtered site will asphyxiate.

ruveyn


That would really depend on how close you were to it. If you were on the East Coast, it is hardly likely that you would be asphyxiated by it. Maybe if you were in Denver.

In any event, should it ever erupt again as a supervolcano, by that time we could be in the next period of glaciation or even the period after that. It is possible that nobody might be asphyxiated by it.



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08 Jan 2014, 5:49 pm

Nambo wrote:
Dont they claim we are well overdue for a Super volcano eruption at Yellowstone Park?


Yeah, but you also have to understand that this is in geological time, which means that if it does erupt, it might happen a few years from now to a million years from now, so I really wouldn't dedicate my life to prepping for something that will most likely come years after I die of natural causes.


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08 Jan 2014, 7:20 pm

Maybe they should look at drilling a hole into the Magna with a valve that they could gradually release the pressure from, that could be diverted to power a few power stations.