Yellowstone Super Eruption

[Sandstorm]

Lots of tremors being recorded at present……could get serious.

[lemonhead]

USGS fine with it. Any reading material?

All I can find are a baker's dozen write ups from the Daily Express, who seem very optimistic.

[Ymx]

Bad lack of rule 1 on this thread.

[FalseBayFC]

The idea of a super volcano going off frightens the crap out of me. Luckily its a once in millions of years event. Yellowstone pops properly and its goodbye Murica. A Krakatoa level event would be devestating globally. Especially since the human population since 1883 has increased by about 7 times and population density has increased many times that due to urbanization in cites.

[Lobby]

The idea of a super volcano going off frightens the crap out of me. Luckily its a once in millions of years event. Yellowstone pops properly and its goodbye Murica. A Krakatoa level event would be devestating globally. Especially since the human population since 1883 has increased by about 7 times and population density has increased many times that due to urbanization in cites.

Looking on the bright side, it could reverse global warming and sort out lots of climate change problems.

[FalseBayFC]

The idea of a super volcano going off frightens the crap out of me. Luckily its a once in millions of years event. Yellowstone pops properly and its goodbye Murica. A Krakatoa level event would be devestating globally. Especially since the human population since 1883 has increased by about 7 times and population density has increased many times that due to urbanization in cites.

Looking on the bright side, it could reverse global warming and sort out lots of climate change problems.

Hey I can't complain down here on the Southern tip of Africa we're as far as possible from any volcanic zone. Its also the kind of thing thats outside of any human control so why the fudge should we worry about it? So stash up on cocaine, lsd, non-digital porn, a 9mm with one round and canned goods and your last few weeks should be awesome. That's my approach to prepping.

[Ymx]

The idea of a super volcano going off frightens the crap out of me.

Hey I can't complain down here on the Southern tip of Africa we're as far as possible from any volcanic zone. Its also the kind of thing thats outside of any human control so why the fudge should we worry about it? So stash up on cocaine, lsd, non-digital porn, a 9mm with one round and canned goods and your last few weeks should be awesome. That's my approach to prepping.

[FalseBayFC]

The idea of a super volcano going off frightens the crap out of me.

Hey I can't complain down here on the Southern tip of Africa we're as far as possible from any volcanic zone. Its also the kind of thing thats outside of any human control so why the fudge should we worry about it? So stash up on cocaine, lsd, non-digital porn, a 9mm with one round and canned goods and your last few weeks should be awesome. That's my approach to prepping.

Oh we'll die alright, its just that we'll get a chance to have one last big party.

[Sards]

The idea of a super volcano going off frightens the crap out of me.

Hey I can't complain down here on the Southern tip of Africa we're as far as possible from any volcanic zone. Its also the kind of thing thats outside of any human control so why the fudge should we worry about it? So stash up on cocaine, lsd, non-digital porn, a 9mm with one round and canned goods and your last few weeks should be awesome. That's my approach to prepping.

Oh we'll die alright, its just that we'll get a chance to have one last big party.

Braai you mean

[Enzedder]

Do you think we should do a haka?

[Sandstorm]

Do you think we should do a haka?

Let’s not upset Yellowstone even more.

[Ymx]

Do you think we should do a haka?

Why wouldn’t we? And when don’t we.

[Biffer]

The idea of a super volcano going off frightens the crap out of me. Luckily its a once in millions of years event. Yellowstone pops properly and its goodbye Murica. A Krakatoa level event would be devestating globally. Especially since the human population since 1883 has increased by about 7 times and population density has increased many times that due to urbanization in cites.

Looking on the bright side, it could reverse global warming and sort out lots of climate change problems.

Unless it chucks out shitloads of methane.

Other worrying volcanos

- Mount Ranier
- Glacier Peak (likely five times bigger than Mt St Helens)
- Cotopaxi
- Vesuvius
- Merapi
- Campi Flegrei (potentially 100 to 1000 times bigger than Mt St Helens)
- Taal
- Mt Hood

Campi Flegrei is the one that gets me. It's in the bay of Naples - about a million people live inside the crater. Oh, and there's always Toba, which nearly wiped out the human race 70,000 tears ago, and has a bigger magma chamber than Yellowstone.

[Lobby]

The idea of a super volcano going off frightens the crap out of me. Luckily its a once in millions of years event. Yellowstone pops properly and its goodbye Murica. A Krakatoa level event would be devestating globally. Especially since the human population since 1883 has increased by about 7 times and population density has increased many times that due to urbanization in cites.

Looking on the bright side, it could reverse global warming and sort out lots of climate change problems.

Unless it chucks out shitloads of methane.

Other worrying volcanos

- Mount Ranier
- Glacier Peak (likely five times bigger than Mt St Helens)
- Cotopaxi
- Vesuvius
- Merapi
- Campi Flegrei (potentially 100 to 1000 times bigger than Mt St Helens)
- Taal
- Mt Hood

Campi Flegrei is the one that gets me. It's in the bay of Naples - about a million people live inside the crater. Oh, and there's always Toba, which nearly wiped out the human race 70,000 tears ago, and has a bigger magma chamber than Yellowstone.

The Toba genetic bottleneck theory isn't universally supported, and there is some research which suggests that the eruption had much less effect on the human population than some think:

"Based on these previous studies and our new paleoenvironmental data, we find no support for the Toba catastrophe hypothesis and conclude that the Toba supereruption did not 1) produce a 6-year-long volcanic winter in eastern Africa, 2) cause a genetic bottleneck among African AMH populations, or 3) bring humanity to the brink of extinction.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... via%3Dihub

[fishfoodie]

The idea of a super volcano going off frightens the crap out of me. Luckily its a once in millions of years event. Yellowstone pops properly and its goodbye Murica. A Krakatoa level event would be devestating globally. Especially since the human population since 1883 has increased by about 7 times and population density has increased many times that due to urbanization in cites.

Looking on the bright side, it could reverse global warming and sort out lots of climate change problems.

Unless it chucks out shitloads of methane.

Other worrying volcanos

- Mount Ranier
- Glacier Peak (likely five times bigger than Mt St Helens)
- Cotopaxi
- Vesuvius
- Merapi
- Campi Flegrei (potentially 100 to 1000 times bigger than Mt St Helens)
- Taal
- Mt Hood

Campi Flegrei is the one that gets me. It's in the bay of Naples - about a million people live inside the crater. Oh, and there's always Toba, which nearly wiped out the human race 70,000 tears ago, and has a bigger magma chamber than Yellowstone.

When Mount Pinatubo blew, it ejected so much ash into the upper atmosphere, it didn't matter immediately that it also threw out shit loads of ozone damaging crap; because the ash changed the planets albedo, so the NH had 10% less sunlight & the temperature dropped by 0.5-0.6C. The same thing happened with Krakatoa.

The problem is that the albedo effect lasts a few years, but the ozone damage lasts much longer.