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Kind of a cool video i saw this morning. Shows yellowstone simmering like crazy. In the past couple years seems to be waking up.
here's a youtube video taken a few days ago showing it go crazy. If you look to the far left you see bright white flashes coming from the steam. What this means? I Have no idea but kind of interesting to see.
They've had roads melting:
Parts of rivers that have never boiled before are now boiling. Though no one knows for sure when she'll blow but when it does it will be world changing. Here's an article from CNN:
On a side note i came pretty close to visiting there last year when i was out in colorado. I'd like to go visit yellowstone - i was a bit more concerned about grizzly bears though. My luck -it'd probably blow up while im out there taking some pictures lol but pretty gorgeous place.
While of course this is just pure speculation and no one knows -What say you sherdog friends? Think it'll blow anytime soon?
Here's a visual aid of the ash that would be spread across America if yellowstone blew up:
here's a youtube video taken a few days ago showing it go crazy. If you look to the far left you see bright white flashes coming from the steam. What this means? I Have no idea but kind of interesting to see.
They've had roads melting:
Parts of rivers that have never boiled before are now boiling. Though no one knows for sure when she'll blow but when it does it will be world changing. Here's an article from CNN:
To understand the consequences of Yellowstone's previous eruptions, open the history books to 1815, when Mount Tambora blew many cubic miles of debris skyward and killed about 10,000 inhabitants of Indonesia in an instant, according to a report in Smithsonian Magazine.
Its dust may have blocked sunlight around the world, chilling the air and dropping the Earth's climate into a frigid phase that garnered the year 1816 the "year without a summer," some climatologists believe. It may have led to frosty crop failures in Europe and North America.
Magnitudes worse
Tambora blew 36 cubic miles of debris into the sky. Yellowstone has dwarfed that at least three times, the USGS says.
The explosions have left deep scars, and park goers often become familiar with one -- the Yellowstone Caldera, which takes up much of the park and is lined by a roundish mountainous ridge.
The caldera is a volcanic crater some 40- by 25-miles large, left behind when 240 cubic miles of debris ruptured out of the Earth and into the air during volcanic discharge some 630,000 years ago, USGS says.
Lava flowed into the breach, filling it, which may account for the lack of a deeper crater.
Long before that, 2 million years ago, volcanic activity blew 600 cubic miles of Yellowstone debris into the air.
Those were the two largest eruptions in North America in a few million years, the USGS said, and they each buried in ash more than a third of what is now the continental U.S.
"If another large caldera-forming eruption were to occur at Yellowstone, its effects would be worldwide," the USGS says. It would drastically shift the world's climate.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/24/us/yellowstone-supervolcano-magma-reservoir-discovery/
Its dust may have blocked sunlight around the world, chilling the air and dropping the Earth's climate into a frigid phase that garnered the year 1816 the "year without a summer," some climatologists believe. It may have led to frosty crop failures in Europe and North America.
Magnitudes worse
Tambora blew 36 cubic miles of debris into the sky. Yellowstone has dwarfed that at least three times, the USGS says.
The explosions have left deep scars, and park goers often become familiar with one -- the Yellowstone Caldera, which takes up much of the park and is lined by a roundish mountainous ridge.
The caldera is a volcanic crater some 40- by 25-miles large, left behind when 240 cubic miles of debris ruptured out of the Earth and into the air during volcanic discharge some 630,000 years ago, USGS says.
Lava flowed into the breach, filling it, which may account for the lack of a deeper crater.
Long before that, 2 million years ago, volcanic activity blew 600 cubic miles of Yellowstone debris into the air.
Those were the two largest eruptions in North America in a few million years, the USGS said, and they each buried in ash more than a third of what is now the continental U.S.
"If another large caldera-forming eruption were to occur at Yellowstone, its effects would be worldwide," the USGS says. It would drastically shift the world's climate.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/24/us/yellowstone-supervolcano-magma-reservoir-discovery/
On a side note i came pretty close to visiting there last year when i was out in colorado. I'd like to go visit yellowstone - i was a bit more concerned about grizzly bears though. My luck -it'd probably blow up while im out there taking some pictures lol but pretty gorgeous place.
While of course this is just pure speculation and no one knows -What say you sherdog friends? Think it'll blow anytime soon?
Here's a visual aid of the ash that would be spread across America if yellowstone blew up:
