Super Volcano Will Challenge Civilization, Geologists Warn

[medicnick83]

I dont care what happens, so long SGS servers for COD4 & WaW are okay and my ADSL connection is ok... DOOMS DAY CAN COME AND F'ing GO!

 

[DigitalSoldier]

mmm ... new blockbuster movie in the making??? ....
plot: super volcano to erupt, team of a few to travel to the earths core to stop it from happening, maybe get the same cast as "Armageddon" (bruce willis), actually it can be seen as a sequel to Armageddon

You talking about "The Core"

Seems like Yellowstone Super Volcano is the in thing at the moment. Theres been a few articles in 2008, but since 1 January 2009 theres been a lot more reporting an interest in Yellowstone.


http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital...lowstone-earthquakes-supervolcano-update.html

Yellowstone Earthquakes: Supervolcano Update

3) Here is a passage on the Yellowstone supervolcano from "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson. He interviews a Yellowstone geologist, Paul Doss. I don't find it reassuring:

I asked him what caused Yellowstone to blow when it did.

"Don't know. Nobody knows. Volcanoes are strange things. We really don't understand them at all. Vesuvius, in Italy, was active for three hundred years until an eruption in 1944 and then it just stopped. It's been silent ever since. Some volcanologists think that it is recharging in a big way, which is a little worrying because two million people live on or around it. But nobody knows."

"And how much warning would you get if Yellowstone was going to go?"
He shrugged. "Nobody was around the last time it blew, so nobody knows what the warning signs are. Probably you would have swarms of earthquakes and some surface uplift and possibly some changes in the patterns of behavior of the geysers and steam vents, but nobody really knows."

"So it could just blow without warning?"

He nodded thoughtfully. The trouble, he explained, is that nearly all the things that would constitute warning signs already exist in some measure at Yellowstone. "Earthquakes are generally a precursor of volcanic eruptions, but the park alreadyas lots of earthquakes-1,260 of them last year. Most of them are too small to be felt, but they are earthquakes nonetheless."

Another article:

News link posted on ATS(original link does not work anymore)

Keep in mind this is a non official warning by a private geologist.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread423994/pg1

Update time = Thu Jan 1 19:31:44 UTC 2009

Posted by geologist Christopher C. Sanders on January 1, 2009.

"I am advising all State officials around Yellowstone National Park for a potential State of Emergency. In the last week over 300 earthquakes have been observed by the USGS. We have a 3D view on the movement of magma rising underground. We have all of the pre warning signs of a major eruption from a super volcano. - I want everyone to leave Yellowstone National Park and for 200 miles around the volcano caldera."

 

[adamr]

this is scary ... has any big media players been reporting this?

EDIT: "When will it next erupt?
Scientist have discovered that the ground in Yellowstone if 74cm higher than in was in 1923 - indicating a massive swelling underneath the park. The reservoir is filling with magma at an alarming rate. The volcano erupts with a near-clockwork cycle of every 600,000 years. The last eruption was more than 640,000 years ago - we are overdue for annihilation. "

Me hopes i get my GTX295 before this happens!!!! iDOL hope you reading this ... haha