Supervolcano in Yellowstone is due to erupt

[Rapunzel]

Yellowstone National Park is sitting on top of a supervolcano and scientists say that it just took a “deep breath.” It erupts every 640,000 years and it’s been 640,000 years since the last one. If this blows it would be 1,000 times bigger than Mount St. Helen’s eruption.



http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2011/01/27/am.kaku.volcano.cnn?iref=allsearch

 

[DrLeftover]

I wrote this short story just after the earthquake swarm there in around 2004.



If you look at the US Earthquake map, the string of shaking as described in the story, running southwest from the park, is still happening. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/



Serious Save



A girl and her cave find love with a Super Volcano.

Ain't nothin' sinkin'. Somethin' is risin'. The dying man gestured toward the top of the map. Look where it's a pointin' ya.



Yellowstone. Brooke read off the map.

No National Parks were destroyed in the writing of this story.



http://www.themediadesk.com/newfiles2/cave1.htm

 

[Evil Eye]

Oh yeah I heard about this.

Well, so far so good.

No National Parks were destroyed in the writing of this story.

 

[The Dragon Master]

Ahh, we'll be fine XD

 

[Temerit]

Reminds me of 2012 (the movie).

 

[The Dragon Master]

Apparently we're also overdue for an meteoroid attack :\

 

[Masri]

Eh, we were told this in 8th grade by our science teacher.



We'll be fine, geological time is so large that it's usually off by a couple of thousand years, at least. Doubt anything will happen in our lifetimes (thank God, it'd like, kill over half the planet o.o).

 

[DrLeftover]

And it is still shaking.....



I used this map and the site a lot writing the story.... you've gotta love the outline of the caldera

Go HERE for continuously updated information:



http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone.html

 

[Evil Eye]

Why should I love the caldera?

 

[Rapunzel]

Because of the sheer size of the thing!



When it blows it will cover the planet in a thick dust cloud for years. The sun won't be able to penetrate the dust and the planet will rapidly enter the next ice age and the majority of (if not all) human life will become extinct.