Scientists from the US Geological Survey who breezily informed the public that there’s “nothing to worry about” with regards to the Yellowstone caldera, a supervolcano that should it erupt could cause potentially hundreds of thousands of deaths, should be eating their words.
Since about mid-July, the earth beneath the volcano has been shifting in a sign that magma could be rushing into the caldera’s main chamber. Since then, there have been roughly 2,500 small-scale earthquakes recorded near the volcano, the largest stretch on record. Previous estimates had assumed that the process that led to the eruption took millenniums to occur.
The same estimates that USGS based their warning on.
As the New York Times explains, the Yellowstone caldera is 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.
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As the Times points out, scientists expect a supervolcano eruption to scar the planet once every 100,000 years.
To reach their conclusion, the team of scientists spent weeks at Yellowstone’s Lava Creek Tuff – a fossilized ash deposit from the volcano’s last supereruption, where they gathered samples and analyzed the volcanic leftovers. The analysis allowed the scientists to pin down changes in the lava flow before the last eruption. The crystalline structures of the rocks recorded changes in temperature, pressure and water content beneath the volcano just like tree rings do.
“We expected that there might be processes happening over thousands of years preceding the eruption,” said Christy Till, a geologist at Arizona State, and Ms. Shamloo’s dissertation adviser. Instead, the outer rims of the crystals revealed a clear uptick in temperature and a change in composition that occurred on a rapid time scale. That could mean the super eruption transpired only decades after an injection of fresh magma beneath the volcano.”
Thanks to this research, scientists are beginning to realize that the conditions that would lead to a supervolcano eruption could emerge during a human lifetime. As the research continues, scientists hope they will be able to spot more signs of a coming eruption.
“It’s one thing to think about this slow gradual buildup – it’s another thing to think about how you mobile 1000 cubic kilometers of magma in a decade,” she said.
While scientists at the USGS have brushed off the threat of a supervolcano eruption, scientists at NASA have at least acknowledged the threat to the US population. The agency has devised a potential strategy to try and defuse an eruption should one appear imminent, though according to several the techniques involved – specifically, pumping water directly into the volcano’s magma chamber – involve significant risks.
But who knows? If the research is accurate, an eruption could emerge as a serious threat to the US – and possibly the global population – population as the fallout kills crops and livestock, causing widespread famine, while clouds of choking ash and debris spread for hundreds, if not thousands, of miles.
Bring it and let it be the biggest super volcano eruption in Earth history!
You realize you would not be a survivor of it?
You’re wishing for your own death?
Correct. I/S has no kids, and therefore has nothing to live for, no legacy to pass along.
scientists – in general, I’ve lost respect for that profession.
“….an eruption could emerge as a serious threat to the US – and possibly the global population – population as the fallout kills crops and livestock, causing widespread famine, while clouds of choking ash and debris spread for hundreds, if not thousands, of miles.”
—I am so tired of the ever present fear-mongering; wonder who is looking for more funding.
Nowhere to run to baby , nowhere to hide !
The last eruption pre dated any record of human activity on the North American continent so ?? Is it time for an all out effort nationally like the Manhattan project or do we just say “FUCK IT” ????
God knows by the time any of our so called representitives appoint a committee to study the problem and apropiate even the thought of a remotely possible solution we will be digging out and eating each other , that’s if anyone is left clinging to life . Don’t worry though under that mountain of ash will be electric cars and 10 round magazines next to a vagina hat and a BLM sign
By the time this eruption becomes truly imminent, the US population will be so dumbed down they will attempt to pump the caldera not with water but with Brawndo.
Brawndo, its got what calderas crave!
So we have contender for 2020 now?
I was all in for my candidate Giant Meteor But if SUPERVOLCANO starts to poll well I will jump ship.
Just let it end already.
It isn’t going to erupt.
All those small quakes are the relief of strains and pressures that would cause an eruption if not relieved.
I cant take another IMMENIENT warning, end of the world threat. The last few years there have been economic, natural, solar and political kiss your ass good bye scenarios that if I see one more…oh forget it, I’m just sick of it already.
Henceforth when I see the word IMMENIENT, I will train myself to hear, “sometime in my lifetime”.
I will still prepare, but will sleep much better at night, not checking my cell phone each morning, to see if the world is still here.
I’m on the side of a total stock market collapse, followed by a total fiat repudiation happening, before the Yellowstone Caldera eruption!!
I’ll prepare for the Super Volcano with the same zeal I prepare for Nibiru smashing into earth.
Nah……Jerry moonbeam and his lib-tard lackeys and perverts will kill me from the shear weight of all the friggin new legislation before that ash mount erupts….or….Edgar Cayce’s predictions will happen first.
Eruption is absolutely imminent. In geological terms this means it will happen within the next 10-20,000 years. We have many more pressing concerns.
If it does happen in our lifetimes, there isn’t a whole lot to be done. Like with Nuclear Winter, if plants won’t grow long-term survival is an extreme long shot.
Admenstruater, there ain’t gonna be no supervolcanoes and yer just tryin ter stir the shit pot ter see what bubbles out. Git back ter writin the gawd dammed content I been payin fer. More stuff about the retarded negroids yer drive by, more stuff about the Fedreserve, more stuff about how Hardscramble gits yer rocks off. The only intrestin thing on this whole dipshitted mongreloidish cesspool of lonely ignoramuses interweb site is Stucky’s very intriguing question about flogging ol molly fer $100 uh pop. Git back ter what yer know, and leave the global apocalypse shit fer Alex Jones. Hey! yer remind me uh little uh Alex Jones. Yer need tee start uh gawd dammed podcast.
BW you skank! Did you not see the beloved platform (you live under) is underfunded because of the GooGul Amazonian Tyrants? Have you been busy selling your TBP screenplay on Weinstein’s couch? Do I need to ask Coyote Ugly to kick your ass to my bunny hutch for Scrapper to teach a lesson?
BTW… we have some meth hores out here in the Misery Hills what could make ur Billah’s pecker stand up and take notice in a way ur saggy tits forgot about when Little Billah quit sucklin’ when he was ten.
OK Billy Badass. In case u think I think you have anything to do with BW? It is in fun to garner support. I remember the ass chewing for assuming Skank BW was really ur wife.
All we need to do is throw a virgin in the volcano, and everything will be fine.
So, where can we find a virgin, Oh, there aren’t any…
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Yeah, pump water into it — sure, that might work. A steam bath to fix an erupting volcano! LOL
If we were able to cork the magma flow somehow, wouldn’t the trapped magma just flow in another direction to a different weak spot? Or would it stay in its confined space? Maybe if it were diffused over a wide area, underground… Is there a Volcano expert and/or Geologist in the house?
Quick! who has a map of the Earth’s mantle underneath North America?