Yellowstone National Park is sitting on top of a supervolcano and scientists say that it just took a “deep breath.” It erupts every 640,000 years and it’s been 640,000 years since the last one. If this blows it would be 1,000 times bigger than Mount St. Helen’s eruption.
It’s the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine.
If it erupts before July I probably won’t make the BABBQ. or anything else.
PS. if Woody Harrelson shows up with an old RV i am moving to Africa.
Hey guys, don’t worry! Life may end in the United States as we know it. We don’t know when but it’s coming! But the good news is I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to geico!
LOL Excellent Deb! That had me chuckling out loud!!!!
LMAO! Good 1 Deb!!
640,000 years ago? Not 639,999 years ago? Not 640,001 years ago? What day 640,000 years ago did this happen? I hope it was 640,000 years ago from say, July 12th, and not from July 9th, so I can see ALN again at BABBQ II.
Anthony, you can come to my place when the poop hits the fan…and Deb, you are invited too.
sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
as soon as the snow melts. all my snow is gone and sunny skies for the next week.
Let’s blame it on Bush…
I live inside the 100 miles zone. When it happens, our plan is to get out the lawnchairs, lemonade, and sunglasses, and enjoy the show. It ought to be a good one!
I’m thinking the show won’t last very long, so pay close attention so you get the full effect.
You might want to practice bending over and grabbing your ankles.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
I just took a reaaaaaallly deep breath and so far I haven’t erupted either…I am dizzy now though.
Maybe Wikileaks will give us the scoop on when it’ll blow.
I feel the need for a Florida vacation all of a sudden. The fact it’s snowing again today might also have something to do with that though, not just getting out of blast zone.
I’ve had this song stuck in my head ever since I read this post — why not share share? —
I’ve been humming “I can feel it coming in the air tonight.”
“I’ve been dread-ing this moment for half my life, oh lord.”
At least it wasn’t “50 ways to leave your lava”
I hope we’re not “Blinded by the sight”
Don’t come to Florida. It’s full. Full of freakin’ Canadians.
Ah, yes. South Florida, aka New York South.
I feel the need to point out that by “just took a deep breath” what they actually mean is there has been a rise of about 7 cm a year between 2004 and 2007. Between 07 and 10, this “deep breath” swelling slowed to less than a centimeter a year. There was a study published in December that stated this information, and CNN felt that they needed to hype it up. Not that this volcano won’t someday erupt, without much warning even, just that this risk isn’t any higher now than it was five years ago.
Thanks, google 🙂 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/110119-yellowstone-park-supervolcano-eruption-magma-science/
Oh no! This sounds like manmade global lava lifting. I think we need to redistribute the weight of some of the folks from Utah and South Dakota up towards Wyoming to offset the tectonic shift.
You know that buying a lot of beer is the only way to prepare for this thing, don’t you?
Beer? Damn, I loaded up on bread and milk and eggs. I guess that I was getting ready for the wrong problem.
And I thought moving from Evanston(WY) to Portland was a good thing but apparently it is going to get meither way LOL
Look for the earth to make a funny face…then we’ll know it’s erupting.
btw, I’m still chuckling at Deb’s comment
Looking at CNN’s map I guess I’m not worried. They seem to think that Montana is Minnesota……So…we in Montana either don’t actually exist or we are really part of Canada and need not worry anyway…..
Newsflash, CNN: Montana = MT
Does this article mean the volcano is taking a deep breath in the same way a 6 year old takes a deep breath when (s)he wants the latest toy/sweet/pet? 🙂
Hey, when did Montana change its’ name to Minnesota? I missed that.
Good Observation!
Probably didn’t want to be associated with Hannah, the shame was too great!
I have a google alert for Yellowstone and all I see is the repeated parroting of the gross speculation that an eruption of this volcano is imminent. That may or may not be the case. If it does happen there is not a lot we can do about it. However, at least one scientist monitoring the volcano does not think the eruption will happen anytime soon.
USGS Scientist-in-Charge of Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, Jake Lowenstern has a totally different take on the volcano that can be seen here: http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/publications/2009/greatesthits.php
Based on his calculations of three previous super eruptions, another eruption will not be overdue for at least another 70,000 years. But then that is ho hum information that does make profitable headlines.
Of course a person in authority is not going to stir up a panic. They are not going to put a chief scientist in charge if they think it is someone who screams the sky is falling.
Volcanos may erupt on a periodic cycle, but there are so many variables that we won’t know till it’s real, real close. Like you said Larry, if it happens it happens. I think I’ll make a google news alert myself.
Yellowstone is like a woman– It’s beautiful, wild, captivating, mysterious, takes your breath away, kind of smelly, steams a lot, it will burn you if you don’t stay on the right path, unstable, and eventually it will erupt without warning unleashing all hell on earth
Makes me wanna stick my pee pee in yellowstone.
Yeah, now I want something smelly and unstable that’ll burn me, too. Again.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_2_156/ai_55369388/
This is a good article about the Mt. Mazama explosion 7,000 years ago that made Crater Lake and threw rocks from Oregon to Greenland. It compares Mt. Mazama, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Pinatubo and the ancient Yellowstone blowout. It says that if we compare Mt. Mazama to a half-gallon milk carton, Mt. St. Helens would fill half of an espresso cup, Mt. Pinatubo would fill a coffee cup, and Yellowstone would fill a 30 gallon garbage can. Wow! Mt. Mazama made a 1 mile wide lake and threw rocks 4,000 km, and STILL Yellowstone was 60 TIMES more powerful. That must have been an Earthshaking Ka-boom!
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