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[smilez]

I was watching a program on t.v. last night about supervolcanoes, and they said there are ten of them around the world~one under Yellowstone National Park. Now, supervolcanoes are huge. The supervolcano under Yellowstone is, well, the size of Yellowstone. It covers the whole land area of Yellowstone National Park.
The scary thing is, supervolcanoes erupt every 600,000 years. Guess how many years it has been? 630,000 years!!!!!
So, my point is, the supervolcano under Yellowstone could erupt at any time- at this moment, ten hours from now, a week, a year, or ten thousand years. Nobody knows. Nobody knows any signs of an eruption, so stay on your toes.

A little hint of how long it would take to reach the following:

New York: 3 hours
Texas: 5 hours
Florida: 5 1/2 hours
California: 2 1/2 hours
Europe: 3 weeks
Asia: about a month

And that is just ash and smoke^^^

Lava:
(Note that it would only reach as far as Kansas, Missouri, and a little ways off the coast of California)

California: 4 hours
Kansas: 6 hours
Missouri: 5 1/2 hours

News reports will be going nuts once it or any other supervolcano erupts.

Remember, there are ten of these around the world, and i dont know anything about any of them except the one under Yellowstone.

[destiny hope cyrus fan]

pretty scary

[Absolute_Lovex3]

I have a theory that helps me get through things: "don't waste your time worrying! Whatever happens, happens. Worriying won't help, it makes things worse."

[HannahMontana***]

What about NJ? Anything bout NJ?

[destiny hope cyrus fan]

What about NJ? Anything bout NJ?
maybe about 6-7 hours i was estimating from info she smilez gave

[yeahme23]

wow, i never knew about that!

[bart]

Hidden deep beneath the Earth's surface lie one of the most destructive and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world - supervolcanoes. Only a handful exist in the world but when one erupts it will be unlike any volcano we have ever witnessed. The explosion will be heard around the world. The sky will darken, black rain will fall, and the Earth will be plunged into the equivalent of a nuclear winter.
Normal volcanoes are formed by a column of magma - molten rock - rising from deep within the Earth, erupting on the surface, and hardening in layers down the sides. This forms the familiar cone shaped mountain we associate with volcanoes. Supervolcanoes, however, begin life when magma rises from the mantle to create a boiling reservoir in the Earth's crust. This chamber increases to an enormous size, building up colossal pressure until it finally erupts.
The last supervolcano to erupt was Toba 74,000 years ago in Sumatra. Ten thousand times bigger than Mt St Helens, it created a global catastrophe dramatically affecting life on Earth. Scientists know that another one is due - they just don't know when... or where.
It is little known that lying underneath one of America's areas of outstanding natural beauty - Yellowstone Park - is one of the largest supervolcanoes in the world. Scientists have revealed that it has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago... so the next is overdue.
And the sleeping giant is breathing: volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under the park and have calculated that in parts of Yellowstone the ground has risen over seventy centimetres this century. Is this just the harmless movement of lava, flowing from one part of the reservoir to another? Or does it presage something much more sinister, a pressurised build-up of molten lava?
Scientists have very few answers, but they do know that the impact of a Yellowstone eruption is terrifying to comprehend. Huge areas of the USA would be destroyed, the US economy would probably collapse, and thousands might die. And it would devastate the planet. Climatologists now know that Toba blasted so much ash and sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere that it blocked out the sun, causing the Earth's temperature to plummet. Some geneticists now believe that this had a catastrophic effect on human life, possibly reducing the population on Earth to just a few thousand people. Mankind was pushed to the edge of extinction... and it could happen again.

[smilez]

about the same time as New York

[bart]

thats just a bit of information but that was written six years ago so look out

[smilez]

Hidden deep beneath the Earth's surface lie one of the most destructive and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world - supervolcanoes. Only a handful exist in the world but when one erupts it will be unlike any volcano we have ever witnessed. The explosion will be heard around the world. The sky will darken, black rain will fall, and the Earth will be plunged into the equivalent of a nuclear winter.
Normal volcanoes are formed by a column of magma - molten rock - rising from deep within the Earth, erupting on the surface, and hardening in layers down the sides. This forms the familiar cone shaped mountain we associate with volcanoes. Supervolcanoes, however, begin life when magma rises from the mantle to create a boiling reservoir in the Earth's crust. This chamber increases to an enormous size, building up colossal pressure until it finally erupts.
The last supervolcano to erupt was Toba 74,000 years ago in Sumatra. Ten thousand times bigger than Mt St Helens, it created a global catastrophe dramatically affecting life on Earth. Scientists know that another one is due - they just don't know when... or where.
It is little known that lying underneath one of America's areas of outstanding natural beauty - Yellowstone Park - is one of the largest supervolcanoes in the world. Scientists have revealed that it has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago... so the next is overdue.
And the sleeping giant is breathing: volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under the park and have calculated that in parts of Yellowstone the ground has risen over seventy centimetres this century. Is this just the harmless movement of lava, flowing from one part of the reservoir to another? Or does it presage something much more sinister, a pressurised build-up of molten lava?
Scientists have very few answers, but they do know that the impact of a Yellowstone eruption is terrifying to comprehend. Huge areas of the USA would be destroyed, the US economy would probably collapse, and thousands might die. And it would devastate the planet. Climatologists now know that Toba blasted so much ash and sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere that it blocked out the sun, causing the Earth's temperature to plummet. Some geneticists now believe that this had a catastrophic effect on human life, possibly reducing the population on Earth to just a few thousand people. Mankind was pushed to the edge of extinction... and it could happen again.


thanks for adding that info to this thread- and to keep every1 informed with news, i will keep posting.

[smilez]

thats just a bit of information but that was written six years ago so look out

oh...lol
well still......its very recent if you look at it right.

[HannahMontana***]

Hidden deep beneath the Earth's surface lie one of the most destructive and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world - supervolcanoes. Only a handful exist in the world but when one erupts it will be unlike any volcano we have ever witnessed. The explosion will be heard around the world. The sky will darken, black rain will fall, and the Earth will be plunged into the equivalent of a nuclear winter.
Normal volcanoes are formed by a column of magma - molten rock - rising from deep within the Earth, erupting on the surface, and hardening in layers down the sides. This forms the familiar cone shaped mountain we associate with volcanoes. Supervolcanoes, however, begin life when magma rises from the mantle to create a boiling reservoir in the Earth's crust. This chamber increases to an enormous size, building up colossal pressure until it finally erupts.
The last supervolcano to erupt was Toba 74,000 years ago in Sumatra. Ten thousand times bigger than Mt St Helens, it created a global catastrophe dramatically affecting life on Earth. Scientists know that another one is due - they just don't know when... or where.
It is little known that lying underneath one of America's areas of outstanding natural beauty - Yellowstone Park - is one of the largest supervolcanoes in the world. Scientists have revealed that it has been on a regular eruption cycle of 600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago... so the next is overdue.
And the sleeping giant is breathing: volcanologists have been tracking the movement of magma under the park and have calculated that in parts of Yellowstone the ground has risen over seventy centimetres this century. Is this just the harmless movement of lava, flowing from one part of the reservoir to another? Or does it presage something much more sinister, a pressurised build-up of molten lava?
Scientists have very few answers, but they do know that the impact of a Yellowstone eruption is terrifying to comprehend. Huge areas of the USA would be destroyed, the US economy would probably collapse, and thousands might die. And it would devastate the planet. Climatologists now know that Toba blasted so much ash and sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere that it blocked out the sun, causing the Earth's temperature to plummet. Some geneticists now believe that this had a catastrophic effect on human life, possibly reducing the population on Earth to just a few thousand people. Mankind was pushed to the edge of extinction... and it could happen again.



That was cheerful! I hope it happens in another 10,00 years so it won't kill us cuz we'd already be dead!

[bart]

i want to see it happen i think it would be cool

[this_is_thelife]

A little hint of how long it would take to reach the following:

New York: 3 hours
Texas: 5 hours
Florida: 5 1/2 hours
California: 2 1/2 hours
Europe: 3 weeks
Asia: about a month

And that is just ash and smoke^^^


5 hours?

[smilez]

yep

[happy_bunny2000]

guess wat philipines(where i come from ) has volcano called mount pinatubo and it irupted after more than 4 centuries of slumber and blasted lava that kill i think 865 ppl some were injured and this happened in 1991 it over looks davao where my mom comes from luckily she and my dad were in saudi arabia where i was born

[happy_bunny2000]

haha five hours a away oh no five hours away run!!!!

[brent_luvs_miley]

wow thatz kinda scary

[happy_bunny2000]

i want to see it happen i think it would be cool


isnt new jersey near new york? hello? isnt it 3 hours from there(newyork) so it chould strike where you live?

[smilez]

Hey I put some pictures together that I found and gives way more info about it so look:

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m153/kphillips64/worldf.jpg

It shows where every super volcano is and I found something else but I didn't copy it so i'll find it its pretty amazing

[smilez]

heres some more info:

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m153/kphillips64/apicture.jpg

Over all, Yellowstone super volcano is the biggest super volcano on earth