Yellowstone volcano larger than thought

[DrLeftover]

December 12, 2013

A team from the University of Utah have told the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco that Yellowstone’s magama chamber is 2.5 times larger than previously thought.

It is an underground cavern measuring some 55 miles by 20 miles and containing between 125 and 185 billion cubic miles of molten rock.

If it blows it will wipe out America – and have enormous impacts on the rest of the world.

The university researchers described their discovery as “astounding.”

http://nypost.com/2013/12/12/beneath-yellowstone-a-volcano-that-could-wipe-out-u-s/

 

[Kirito]

There were already claims that if it blows we'd see an effect comparable to a nuclear winter. Now probably even more so.

 

[Evil Eye]

Like it wasn't big enough already.