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Sorry if this is a stupid question, but would an 8-9 Cascadia quake have implications for the Yellowstone supervolcano?
by endtime 16y ago
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but would an 8-9 Cascadia quake have implications for the Yellowstone supervolcano?
- Jach 16y agoThat's something I sometimes (perhaps stupidly) worry about too. Some earthquakes go off over in Asia and set off earthquakes in California and Pacific Northwest and set off earthquakes in Utah and then the supervolcano in Yellowstone goes off...
- borism 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera sits on top of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_hotspot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_hotspot Hotspots seem to be unaffected by plate movements - plate moves but hotspot remains in place. That's how Hawaiian island chain has formed, actually.