Well isn't Yellowstone a super volcano that's supposedly a bit overdue for its next 'big bang'? Mother Nature is not a nice one to fool around with when she's having her period...

Yea, I might have needed a change of shorts if I was there.

According to my son who is studying to be a volcanologist, there’s a fairly good record of the Yellowstone Caldera erupting every 675,000 years and the last one was about 675,000 years ago.

Get that shit on your vehicle and it's hell to clean.
Some of the biggest geysers will pop-off a larger than normal column and the liquid coming back down lands all over the cars in the parking lot coating them in mud and silica. The silica mixed mud is hard to get off once it dries and ends up eroding the paint.
Park service has to stay on top of the maintenance as any nearby buildings, require regular cleanings, windows get clouded-over from the airborne spray and the silica just makes things difficult.

Tourons should run faster.

A pretty mild reminder of what is under peoples feet in Yellowstone considering the caldera covers about 30X35 miles in size.

When Yellowstone blows, it will basically be the end of the United States as we know it. The death toll will be enormous. I wonder if all the nations we’ve helped over the years will help out the miserable survivors in what’s left of CONUS.

On the upside, the survivors won’t have to hear about global warming anymore.

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Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
When Yellowstone blows, it will basically be the end of the United States as we know it. The death toll will be enormous. I wonder if all the nations we’ve helped over the years will help out the miserable survivors in what’s left of CONUS.

On the upside, the survivors won’t have to hear about global warming anymore.

Well, the good news is that it will be all memorialized forever on tic-tock / youtube / social media!
Sooo important to video an event, more concerned about capturing the best angle, lighting instead of saving one's own life.

I swear that social media just shows how truly stupid people are.

The really good news is that volcanoes give lots of warning something is changing for the worse. If it goes up in our lifetimes, there will undoubtedly be weeks of warning signs to prepare as best as can be expected. It would suck living in the death zone and having to pull up stakes and flee with all your property.

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Originally posted by CPD SIG:
Well, the good news is that it will be all memorialized forever on tic-tock / youtube / social media!
Sooo important to video an event, more concerned about capturing the best angle, lighting instead of saving one's own life.

I swear that social media just shows how truly stupid people are.

You would find the archaeological discoveries of Pompeii and Herculaneum fascinating if you spent some real time looking into it. We haven't changed much, if any, in the ensuing two millennia. All this time later, what is interesting to us now isn't the people who survived, because we don't know anything about any of them except Pliny the Elder.

Living 52 miles from the East Gate, if there isn't any warning when the big one goes I am guessing I will have about 2 nanoseconds.

PC

Black Diamond Pool last erupted in 2016. similar event. prior was 2006 after an earthquake which changed its frequency, its one of the lowest activity pools in the basin

If it does blow, does anyone know the approximate circumference of the danger zone?

Would it truly impact the entire U.S.?

"hydrothermal explosion"? They could have been more dramatic by writing "dihydrogen oxide thermal" explosion.

Link

CDC CBC map of the 6 zones affected by a Yellowstone Event.

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https://www.usgs.gov/media/ima...wstone-supereruption

I might survive, but I'd need to be digging deep into my food stores for awhile. It won't be pretty.

Funny thing about that video, though, is that probably most of those people still believe that man has any effect whatsoever on Mother Nature.

Well that map is quite disturbing... and hard to believe that that much ash would be expelled.

Ever worry about the snow load on your roof? Some rough numbers. Ash weighs almost 10 times what snow does. So as much as 50,000 pounds of ash could land on the roof of a 2000 sq ft home... in zone 6! Few if any buildings would withstand that. But over how many days will it take to accumulate. One would surly have time to evacuate... but to Where?


I always have said... In case of nuclear war I want to be at Ground Zero!
I'm beginning to think in this case... the same!

…and I’m taking my family there in 2 weeks.
Pray for us!

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Originally posted by HRK:
Link

CDC map of the 6 zones affected by a Yellowstone Event.

You’ll forgive me if I take what the CDC says with a grain of salt.

I do think the threat is overplayed.