Yellowstone earthquake swarm continues into third day, intensifies

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Ammo won't do anyone living in N America any good, as we're all toast if this happens.

I say this, b/c it's probably the easiest place to get a stockpile of ammo, no?

I'm moving to Switzerland, by the way.

Tasmania for me. I love meatpies.

Being in Illinois I'll presume the worst part would be the weather and atmospheric changes, not physical destruction (I hope).

Now I might not sleep as well if I lived in NW Wyoming, SW montana or NE Idaho.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Couple years? If its the super-eruption thats already happened twice in the last 2 million years, and which the next eruption is already overdue - it would take out every living thing within a 1000 or more mile radius and plunge the ENTIRE WORLD into a volcanic winter, that could potentially last 100's maybe even 1000's of years.

you had to go and be a debbie downer; and I was in a good mood today LOL.

bad storm brewin'.

 

[Ramma2]

Yeah, pretty much its a game changer.

 

[Zargon]

yowza

 

[destrekor]

Ammo won't do anyone living in N America any good, as we're all toast if this happens.

I say this, b/c it's probably the easiest place to get a stockpile of ammo, no?

I'm moving to Switzerland, by the way.

The ammo is so, in the event those us of with ammo survive, we can kill the non-ammo-owning people for their food.

Imagine the USA looking like Fallout 3. Minus the nasty critters. Have to make the trek across the country just to keep finding food, Oregon Trail style.
I so hope I am not alive when that bitch blows.

Anyone find it entertaining we are over due, or about due, for a lot of mass death events?
Yellowstone Supervolcano, Magnetic Pole switch (hmm, the actual switch isn't deadly, but isn't the shifting locations all around before the true switch a cause of increased radiation in those spots? or something...), and a few other things I think haven't happened in awhile.

Oh yeah, massive solar storm that wipes out all of our electrical grid. Last one was like 150-200 years ago, apparently overdue iirc.

 

[SunnyD]

The ammo is so, in the event those us of with ammo survive, we can kill the non-ammo-owning people for their food.

Imagine the USA looking like Fallout 3. Minus the nasty critters. Have to make the trek across the country just to keep finding food, Oregon Trail style.
I so hope I am not alive when that bitch blows.

Anyone find it entertaining we are over due, or about due, for a lot of mass death events?
Yellowstone Supervolcano, Magnetic Pole switch (hmm, the actual switch isn't deadly, but isn't the shifting locations all around before the true switch a cause of increased radiation in those spots? or something...), and a few other things I think haven't happened in awhile.

Oh yeah, massive solar storm that wipes out all of our electrical grid. Last one was like 150-200 years ago, apparently overdue iirc.

2012 is right around the corner. Election year too isn't it? Go figure.

 

[Oceandevi]

I plan on eating all the stray cats if a volcano blows up anywhere.

 

[69Mach1]

I live about 100 miles from there, if it goes bang I'm sure I'm toast. The earthquake swarm seems to happen pretty often, so it seems like a bunch of little ones relieve the pressure and we don't have big ones. I've been told two plates come together here and the mountains are getting taller because the plates are pushing them up.

 

[destrekor]

Yeah, pretty much its a game changer.

ruhroh

2mil years ago, 1.3mil years ago, 0.63mil years ago.
700k years between the older two
670k between the last two

phew, they say waning cycle... I want to see the previous eruptions, because I'm seeing a trend of 30k being cleaved off each cycle.
640k sounds like a good guess between the last one and the next. We might have 10k left.

That's saying we don't kill each other before then. That's a lot of time for man, we haven't proved we are capable of keeping this up thus far, the oldest tribal empires haven't even been around 10k years iirc.

The upward movement of the Yellowstone caldera floor—almost 3 inches (7 centimeters) each year for the past three years—is more than three times greater than ever observed since such measurements began in 1923.[16] From mid-Summer 2004 through mid-Summer 2008, the land surface within the caldera has moved upwards, as much as 8 inches at the White Lake GPS station.[17] The U.S. Geological Survey, University of Utah and National Park Service scientists with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory maintain that they "see no evidence that another such cataclysmic eruption will occur at Yellowstone in the foreseeable future. Recurrence intervals of these events are neither regular nor predictable.

Well... I don't believe them. In 4 years it rose as much as 8 inches, when the average rise is 0.6" per year. And more than ever recorded since the 1920s.
We gonna die.
Or it's just build up for one of the smaller eruptions. Either way, she gonna blow!

 

[destrekor]

2012 is right around the corner. Election year too isn't it? Go figure.

December 2012 - any and every calamity that can happen, will happen.

Nice knowing you folks.

And we get to enjoy the last few months of our existence dealing with assholes spewing bullshit every other commercial, their faces plastered everywhere. We don't even get to relax or enjoy our final moments.

 

[69Mach1]

If I remember correctly, this one is the seventh largest supervolcano on earth. That means there are six that are bigger. Just something to think about.

 

[Ramma2]

Everything you ever hear about this type of event is "nah its not a big deal, nothing to worry about, nothing to see here".

Imagine if it was going to happen, for sure, and they told everyone that? Widespread chaos over the entire nation. Looting, panic, mass evacuations. It all goes to hell.

Just wait it out, and prepare my friends. All we can do is prepare.

 

[FoBoT]

as the crust moves over the yellowstone hotspot over time, various caldera's were formed
the number is how many millions of years ago the hotspot was in that location when a caldera was formed/a super volcanic eruption occurred

looks like it'll be Canada's problem in another 10-20 million years

 

[JTsyo]

Trouble with this volcano is that when it blows it'll be dropping ash into the heartlands due to the prevailing winds. Maybe the east cost will me spared most of the heavy fallout, there would be flaming debris that would start fires. This is based on what I saw on some show on the History Channel.

Another interesting fact I had seen was that the NE crust is still rebounding from the glaciers. It will reach a point where some of the great lakes won't empty through Niagara Falls.

 

[bob4432]

it is not a big deal because there is nothing anybody could do to stop or prepare for it in N.America for the initial blast and then the rest of the world slowly. we will be the first to go, so may as well not worry about it.

who knows, maybe the little earthquakes are the farts before the big shit? or the farts to reduce the pressure...flip a coin?

 

[gsellis]

Nothing to see here, move along.

http://www.seis.utah.edu/EQCENTER/PRESS/yell_press.htm#20100118

Add to your useful links, the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory

http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/yvo/

 

[Anonemous]

So if a disaster of this magnitude occurs who would help the US?

 

[Ruptga]

no worries

Of course they say that; if they're right they get to keep their jobs, if they're wrong nobody will be around to fire them. Conversely if they say we're screwed and are right there is no benefit to them, and if they're wrong they are discredited.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

as the crust moves over the yellowstone hotspot over time, various caldera's were formed
the number is how many millions of years ago the hotspot was in that location when a caldera was formed/a super volcanic eruption occurred

looks like it'll be Canada's problem in another 10-20 million years

The earths only 6000 years old so none of that stuff happened hence we're all safe.

 

[SunnyD]

So if a disaster of this magnitude occurs who would help the US?

Nobody, since it would be a world-wide disaster. We'd just be the immediate epicenter of it.

Besides, all the other countries will start celebrating now that we're out of the way.

 

[K1052]

So if a disaster of this magnitude occurs who would help the US?

It probably wouldn't matter. There would be billions dead worldwide from the drop in temperatures and catastrophic disruption to the food supply.

 

[syrillus]

The earths only 6000 years old so none of that stuff happened hence we're all safe.

That's one point for Jesus!

Jesus: 1
Caldera: 0

 

[krylon]

That's one point for Jesus!

Jesus: 1
Caldera: 0

Negative. Jesus had a hooker.

Jesus: 2
Caldera: 0

 

[techs]

Oh noes! Haiti will have to send US money!

 

[crab]

Somebody is setting us up the bomb.