S.O.S Surfs up at Yellowstone.

[Raptor1]

Doesn't Yellowstone get like that every year?

Originally Posted by Oberon

No, that's just your graphics card and/or router

Arrgh, stop reminding me of my router, I'm trying to make myself forget that thing exists!

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

Doesn't Yellowstone get like that every year?

Some years more than others, 1985 was the last record with 3000 quakes registered over three months. If this continues for the same time period at its current level of activity it will probably exceed the '85 record, however there's just as much of a likelihood that it will peter out over the next three weeks. All the initial signs point to the swarms being caused by fault movement as opposed to magma movement, so that's good and the surface warning signs aren't prevalent, although like the release says, it's winter, there's snow on the ground so some signs might be missed. Data on how the ground is moving is being gathered at the moment so we'll see whether it's a subsidence or growth, since it's in the north-west corner of the caldera I'd put my money on growth.
So, business as usual at the moment, but like I said, it's something to keep one eye on in case things change, but not something worth running to the hills about, although like the opening post says, might be a good time for surfing in the lake, particularly if any slides take place!

[Task Force]

hmm if she does"blow" wounder how that would affect the east us coast. probably get covered with ash... and stuff...

probably like the Pompeii from hell.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Task Force

hmm if she does"blow" wounder how that would affect the east us coast. probably get covered with ash... and stuff...

probably like the Pompeii from hell.

There was a "docudrama" about this on... I think was it NatGeo, or maybe Discovery Channel, a few years back.

The estimated guess was that pretty much everything west of the Mississippi would be either gone or take enough ash fallout to kill anything and anyone that breathed and did not manage to get far enough east in time (which would be made difficult or impossible by the failure of mass transit systems and general panic). Landscape would be utterly devastated, all agriculture in those regions wiped out. Goodbye, Breadbasket of America.

East of the river I'd think it wouldn't be so great either, depending on how much ash made it how far. Even without that to deal with, you'd be looking at a tremendous loss of natural resources at the very least including food production which (it was speculated) would cause problems in any part of the world that depends largely on North America as a source of grain and other agricultural products.

That's not even considering the masssive loss of life involved.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Task Force

hmm if she does"blow" wounder how that would affect the east us coast. probably get covered with ash... and stuff...

probably like the Pompeii from hell.

Yeah, pretty much. No sun for quite a few months, no air travel, road travel difficult unless road sweepers are out non-stop, average temperatures plummet (there was a dip after Mt St. Helens went up IIRC), roof collapses after ash build up (that's one of the main things you need to look out for), mass crop devastation, supply shortages due to panic buying, hoarding, civil disorder, brown-outs, black-outs, loss of telephonic communications (overground cables pulled down by settling ash, transformers shorting out).
Off the top of my head that's some of it, although looking at the distance between Yellowstone and the eastern seaboard, you'd probably be spared the worst of the ash but would receive at the very least 1cm of it (all of the US would get min/max 1cm).
I've heard it referred to a mini-nuclear winter, of course the likelihood of a nuclear winter occurring after an exchange is something which has received much debate, particularly during the Cold War, and thus some of the descriptions of a 'nuclear winter' might not apply to such a scenario, however it'd be pretty reasonable to assume that a northern hemisphere average temperature drop of a few degrees would be likely.

Some reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervolcano

Although TF, if I were you, I'd be more concerned about the volcano at La Palma:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Palma#Volcano

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatsunami#Canary_Islands

Although, it's a fair bit more likely that the Yellowstone caldera would go up, than a mega-tsunami would be generated by the collapse of the Cumbre Vieja, however it's still something that cannot be counted completely one hundred percently out. Certainly nothing to lose sleep over though, both Yellowstone and the Canary Islands

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

There was a "docudrama" about this on... I think was it NatGeo, or maybe Discovery Channel, a few years back.

This one?



And also mentioned in:

[Task Force]

yea. lol. well, I have no issues with the "get as far east as you can" thing. lol but... err... that dosent help with the mega-tsunami.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Oberon

This one?

Yep, that looks familiar. In fact I think I saw two shows about it, both around the same time - one was the docudrama, the other was a straight documentary.

Since I didn't know before then that Yellowstone was a "super-volcano" possibly waiting to happen, I found them both quite interesting.

[yubba]

for live seismograms for yellowstone area go to Yellowstone Volcano Observatory,to monitoing data,eartquakes,to live seismograms for yellowstone, then on the map click on YMR that will take you to live feed. The YMR site is on the left of center in the map

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by yubba

for live seismograms for yellowstone area go to Yellowstone Volcano Observatory,to monitoing data,eartquakes,to live seismograms for yellowstone, then on the map click on YMR that will take you to live feed. The YMR site is on the left of center in the map

Is there a popup or something that will let me know when I need to get on the next bus to Maine?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Is there a popup or something that will let me know when I need to get on the next bus to Maine?

I should imagine the massive explosion outside would be the giveaway...

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by Oberon

I should imagine the massive explosion outside would be the giveaway...

yea... The "suddent shake" should tell you something...

[frau kaleun]

Lol, I live in Ohio - don't know how long it would take the sound/shake to travel this far, but I'd prefer to have my suitcase already half filled when it does!

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Lol, I live in Ohio - don't know how long it would take the sound/shake to travel this far, but I'd prefer to have my suitcase already half filled when it does!

Lol, wounder how long till you would know about it in Virginia.

[frau kaleun]

Are you in Virginia? Whereabouts, if you don't mind telling?

My dad and his people were all Virginians but I haven't been back there in ages.