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"When the supervolcano at Yellowstone last erupted 640,000 years ago, the magma and ash ejected from the caldera covered most of the United States west of the M
by guns 17y ago
"When the supervolcano at Yellowstone last erupted 640,000 years ago, the magma and ash ejected from the caldera covered most of the United States west of the Mississippi river and part of northeastern Mexico. Another such eruption could threaten civilization."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risks_to_civilization,_humans_and_planet_Earth#Supervolcano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risks_to_civilization,_humans_a...
- coderdude 17y ago"The quake zone, [...], has shown little indication, they said, of building toward a larger event, like a volcanic eruption of the type that last ravaged the Yellowstone region tens of thousands of years ago."
- idlewords 17y agoIn truth we have no idea what kind of activity would precede such an event. Geology as a predictive science remains in its infancy.
- pavs 17y agoAll the world-wide destruction predictions on that wikipedia snippet has only one reference from a book by this author: http://www.gregbreining.com/ http://www.gregbreining.com/. From his biography it seems that he is neither a geologist or any kind of scientist by profession. He is a journalist who likes to write science stuff (journalist = automatic BS alert). [ * ] Not that I doubt that something like this can happen, but can anyone give any reference to study or research paper done by (and peer reviewed by) _actual_ scientists? It would probably give more validity to such a claim. * I could be wrong about his profession, I only got those info after less than 5 minutes of googling.
- Eliezer 17y agoer, maybe check the larger Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano