Is the world's largest super-volcano set to erupt for the first time in 600,000 years

[Watchman]

Is the world's largest super-volcano set
to erupt for the first time in 600,000 years,
wiping out two-thirds of the U.S.?

By Daniel Bates
Last updated at 7:38 AM on 25th January 2011

* The super-volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming has been rising at a record rate since 2004

It would explode with a force a thousand times more powerful than the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980.

Spewing lava far into the sky, a cloud of plant-killing ash would fan out and dump a layer 10ft deep up to 1,000 miles away.

Two-thirds of the U.S. could become uninhabitable as toxic air sweeps through it, grounding thousands of flights and forcing millions to leave their homes.

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[singveld]

Re: Is the world's largest super-volcano set to erupt for the first time in 600,000 y

yes, but there is no way to tell it is erupting tomorrow or 1000 years later.
super volcano are not static, they move position, it cannot be exactly at yellow stone by now.

 

[cobragold]

Re: Is the world's largest super-volcano set to erupt for the first time in 600,000 y

Why look at the volcano which is so far away, in sumetra we have a very big one under lake toba