Quakes unleash fear over Yellowstone volcano

By MEAD GRUVER, Associated Press Writer CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -

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Hundreds of small earthquakes at Yellowstone National Park in recent weeks have been an unsettling reminder for some people that underneath the park's famous geysers and majestic scenery lurks one of the world's biggest volcanoes.

In the ancient past, the volcano has erupted 1,000 times more powerfully than the 1980 blast at Mount St. Helens, hurling ash as far away as Louisiana. No eruption that big has occurred while humans have walked the earth, however, and geologists say even a minor lava flow is extremely unlikely any time soon.

Some observers are nonetheless warning of imminent catastrophe.

"To those of us who have been following these events, we know that something is brewing, especially considering that Yellowstone is over 40,000 years overdue for a major eruption," warned a posting on the online disaster forum Armageddononline.org.

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http://www.komonews.com/news/37388044.html

w lotsa food water and books.

However, a positive outcome would be that it would also blow Sarah Palin out of the news, too, also.

not like it will help, but it surely will make the end of the North American continent far more satifying. :evilgrin:

Maybe we can arrange a Wyoming vacation for Governor Grifter.

I mean this would be Rapture for the base.

here is a piece of trivia that most don't know

Scientists BELIEVE that humans went through an evolutionary bottleneck, why your mythocondrial DNA and mine lead to a single woman over 70K years ago.

That was another supervocano (Sumatra) going off at about the same time.

If this goes, and we manage to survive as a species... it will be BV and AV, aka before the volcano and after the volcano

The Sumatra explosion 70,000 years ago was much stronger than any eruption the Yellowstone caldera has had in its lifetime. While an explosion of the Yellowstone caldera would be catastrophic, it is highly unlikely that it would lead to the mass extinction of the human race.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Toba
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_supervolcano

There will be plenty of available jobs ...