Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Yellowstone's supervolcano

The eruption could happen tomorrow.
Or, it could happen in 100,000 years.
CNN video here.
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More here: Could Yellowstone National Park’s caldera super-volcano be close to eruption?
They said that the super-volcano underneath the Wyoming park has been rising at a record rate since 2004 - its floor has gone up three inches per year for the last three years alone, the fastest rate since records began in 1923.
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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