Current Events > World to come to an end when supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park erupts

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smoliske 10/13/17 10:49:15 PM #1:	https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/918502720998465536 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/10/12/yellowstone-supervolcano-may-blow-sooner-than-thought-could-wipe-out-life-planet/757337001/ Scientists working in and around Yellowstone National Park are trying to answer a big question about the mammoth supervolcano sitting under the tourist attraction. Researchers from Arizona State University analyzed minerals in fossilized ash from the most recent mega-eruption. Changes in temperature and composition that had previously taken centuries to form were now happening in the span of decades, according to National Geographic. The discovery, which was presented at a recent volcanology conference, comes on top of a 2011 study that found that ground above the magma reservoir in Yellowstone had bulged by about 10 inches in seven years. "It's an extraordinary uplift, because it covers such a large area and the rates are so high," the University of Utah's Bob Smith, an expert in Yellowstone volcanism, told the magazine at the time. Features of the park, such as the Old Faithful geyser and the Grand Prismatic Spring that attract visitors from around the world, are signs of a huge magma reservoir rumbling below. About 630,000 years ago, National Geographic reported, a powerful eruption shook the region and created the Yellowstone caldera, a bowl 40 miles wide that forms much of the park. Perhaps ominously, according the ZME Science website, the previous eruption occurred in about the same timeframe before that 1.3 million years ago meaning that the system might be ready for another explosion. The researchers, The New York Times reported, have determined that the supervolcano has the ability to spew more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of rock and ash 2,500 times more material than erupted from Mount St. Helens in 1980 an event that could blanket most of the United States in ash and possibly plunge the Earth into a volcanic winter. The theory of a much shorter timeline than expected was developed by Hannah Shamloo, a graduate student at Arizona State, and several colleagues who spent weeks at Yellowstones Lava Creek Tuff a fossilized ash deposit from its last supereruption. According to The Times, Shamloo later analyzed crystals from the teams dig that recorded changes in temperature, pressure and water content beneath the volcano much like a set of tree rings. We expected that there might be processes happening over thousands of years preceding the eruption, Christy Till, a geologist at Arizona State who is Shamloos dissertation adviser, told the paper. Instead, the crystals revealed an increase in temperature and a change in composition that had happened more quickly. The pair also presented an earlier version of their study at a 2016 meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Its shocking how little time is required to take a volcanic system from being quiet and sitting there to the edge of an eruption, Shamloo told The Times, cautioning that more research is necessary before definite conclusions can be drawn. <cite>smoliske posted [p:888394878] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/918502720998465536 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/10/12/yellowstone-supervolcano-may-blow-sooner-than-thought-could-wipe-out-life-planet/757337001/ <quote>Scientists working in and around Yellowstone National Park are trying to answer a big question about the mammoth supervolcano sitting under the tourist attraction. Researchers from Arizona State University analyzed minerals in fossilized ash from the most recent mega-eruption. Changes in temperature and composition that had previously taken centuries to form were now happening in the span of decades, according to National Geographic. The discovery, which was presented at a recent volcanology conference, comes on top of a 2011 study that found that ground above the magma reservoir in Yellowstone had bulged by about 10 inches in seven years. "It's an extraordinary uplift, because it covers such a large area and the rates are so high," the University of Utah's Bob Smith, an expert in Yellowstone volcanism, told the magazine at the time. Features of the park, such as the Old Faithful geyser and the Grand Prismatic Spring that attract visitors from around the world, are signs of a huge magma reservoir rumbling below. About 630,000 years ago, National Geographic reported, a powerful eruption shook the region and created the Yellowstone caldera, a bowl 40 miles wide that forms much of the park. Perhaps ominously, according the ZME Science website, the previous eruption occurred in about the same timeframe before that 1.3 million years ago meaning that the system might be ready for another explosion. The researchers, The New York Times reported, have determined that the supervolcano has the ability to spew more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of rock and ash 2,500 times more material than erupted from Mount St. Helens in 1980 an event that could blanket most of the United States in ash and possibly plunge the Earth into a volcanic winter. The theory of a much shorter timeline than expected was developed by Hannah Shamloo, a graduate student at Arizona State, and several colleagues who spent weeks at Yellowstones Lava Creek Tuff a fossilized ash deposit from its last supereruption. According to The Times, Shamloo later analyzed crystals from the teams dig that recorded changes in temperature, pressure and water content beneath the volcano much like a set of tree rings. We expected that there might be processes happening over thousands of years preceding the eruption, Christy Till, a geologist at Arizona State who is Shamloos dissertation adviser, told the paper. Instead, the crystals revealed an increase in temperature and a change in composition that had happened more quickly. The pair also presented an earlier version of their study at a 2016 meeting of the American Geophysical Union. Its shocking how little time is required to take a volcanic system from being quiet and sitting there to the edge of an eruption, Shamloo told The Times, cautioning that more research is necessary before definite conclusions can be drawn.</quote> </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MakoReizei 10/13/17 10:51:12 PM #2:	Fear mongering --- http://i.imgur.com/mgCjlbV.jpg <cite>MakoReizei posted [p:888394964] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>Fear mongering</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
DreadedWave 10/13/17 10:51:25 PM #3:	Good. --- https://i.imgur.com/ojmm9Ja.jpg <cite>DreadedWave posted [p:888394976] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>Good.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
apocalyptic_4 10/13/17 10:52:41 PM #4:	Ok --- PSN: Adrian396 XBL: Prime Legacy Nintendo ID: Apocalypse <cite>apocalyptic_4 posted [p:888395042] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>Ok</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
boxington 10/13/17 10:53:32 PM #5:	--- b-bb-box <cite>boxington posted [p:888395074] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote> --- b-bb-box</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
apolloooo 10/13/17 10:56:59 PM #6:	Good. End this shit show called humanity already. May future species fare better than this --- http://i.imgtc.com/iJyp6bF.png http://i.imgtc.com/ZBw36Qh.png Thanks for the peeps that made the pics <3 if i make typos it means i am on phone <cite>apolloooo posted [p:888395242] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>Good. End this shit show called humanity already. May future species fare better than this</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
CelestialVoices 10/13/17 11:01:55 PM #7:	cool --- ginger ale is lit http://www.last.fm/user/pinkfloydrulez <cite>CelestialVoices posted [p:888395502] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>cool</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Vicious_Dios 10/13/17 11:05:05 PM #8:	Just shoot machine guns at it with bullets. Volcanos ain't got no chance. --- S / K / Y / N / E Twitch/YouTube/GT: *Adzeta* <cite>Vicious_Dios posted [p:888395650] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>Just shoot machine guns at it with bullets. Volcanos ain't got no chance.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
therin_lews_kin 10/13/17 11:05:07 PM #9:	my body is ready --- http://i.imgtc.com/j3yEe8G.gif <cite>therin_lews_kin posted [p:888395653] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>my body is ready</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
lolamericans 10/13/17 11:08:57 PM #10:	Look at all these friday night basement dwelling losers celebrating. --- http://i.imgur.com/gkWmYOU.gif <cite>lolamericans posted [p:888395827] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>Look at all these friday night basement dwelling losers celebrating.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Touch 10/13/17 11:10:23 PM #11:	I actually did a presentation on it for my geography class. In my conclusion I talked about what we could do to prevent and I said nothing. Everyone just laughed. I was like wtf <__< lol --- http://i.imgtc.com/zPvnLh0.gif <cite>Touch posted [p:888395897] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>I actually did a presentation on it for my geography class. In my conclusion I talked about what we could do to prevent and I said nothing. Everyone just laughed. I was like wtf <__< lol</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PrettyBoyFloyd 10/13/17 11:11:02 PM #12:	I don't care. --- The Evil Republicans - Est.2004 - WoT [Government Destabilizing Branch] <cite>PrettyBoyFloyd posted [p:888395928] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>I don't care.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
butthole666 10/13/17 11:11:43 PM #13:	This is not saying that it will erupt btw, but that an eruption would come with significantly less warning than previously thought --- "Kenan & Kel is what made me realize I wasn't racist." ~ NewportBox100s <cite>butthole666 posted [p:888395968] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>This is not saying that it will erupt btw, but that an eruption would come with significantly less warning than previously thought</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Verdekal 10/13/17 11:12:14 PM #14:	PrettyBoyFloyd posted... I don't care. Crops brah. --- Don't tease the octopus, kids! <cite>Verdekal posted [p:888395999] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote><cite>PrettyBoyFloyd posted...</cite> <quote>I don't care.</quote> Crops brah.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Back_Stabbath 10/13/17 11:12:18 PM #15:	i swear the world is meant to end once every three months but never does. stop letting me down, nature! --- sigless <cite>Back_Stabbath posted [p:888396002] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>i swear the world is meant to end once every three months but never does. stop letting me down, nature!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
EnragedSlith 10/13/17 11:14:18 PM #16:	People will die, but humanity will likely survive --- You gotta fly like an eagle and not.b... be like a turkey <cite>EnragedSlith posted [p:888396101] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>People will die, but humanity will likely survive</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
smoliske 10/13/17 11:15:05 PM #17:	Verdekal posted... PrettyBoyFloyd posted... I don't care. Crops brah. https://newatlas.com/nemos-garden-terrestrial-crops-underwater/38283/ <cite>smoliske posted [p:888396148] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote><cite>Verdekal posted...</cite> <quote><cite>PrettyBoyFloyd posted...</cite> <quote>I don't care.</quote> Crops brah.</quote> https://newatlas.com/nemos-garden-terrestrial-crops-underwater/38283/</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Apocalyptic 10/13/17 11:25:44 PM #18:	World is ending every other week now apparently. Nothing to see here until the volcano actually erupts. --- ... <cite>Apocalyptic posted [p:888396631] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>World is ending every other week now apparently. Nothing to see here until the volcano actually erupts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Medussa 10/13/17 11:48:26 PM #19:	Humanity has survived a couple supervolcanic eruption already, and one of them is likely 2-3 time the size of a Yellowstone eruption. that being said. when this thing goes, be somewhere else. it can easily drop humanity from 7B to 7M, if not further. it will be a very hard existence for anything not underwater. and fishing can only sustain so many people, and only for so long. --- Boom! That's right, this is all happening! You cannot change the channel now! Act now! Venchmen are standing by for your orders! <cite>Medussa posted [p:888397685] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>Humanity has survived a couple supervolcanic eruption already, and one of them is likely 2-3 time the size of a Yellowstone eruption. that being said. when this thing goes, be somewhere else. it can easily drop humanity from 7B to 7M, if not further. it will be a very hard existence for anything not underwater. and fishing can only sustain so many people, and only for so long.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
mortimerjames 10/13/17 11:51:44 PM #20:	And people doubt Christianity --- Tell me the story about how people used to believe in the Bible - Future kid to their grandparents <cite>mortimerjames posted [p:888397822] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>And people doubt Christianity</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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KillerKhan420 10/14/17 12:01:45 AM #22:	ImAMarvel posted... When the fuck are we going to start working on that plan to cool Yellowstone so that this shit never happens? There's no "cooling" down where the lava is trust me. We could relieve some of that built up pressure though and that's not a fix of the problem, it's just delaying the inevitable --- "I know how the business works because I'm a wrestling fan"-hulkhogan1 <cite>KillerKhan420 posted [p:888398259] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote><cite>ImAMarvel posted...</cite> <quote>When the fuck are we going to start working on that plan to cool Yellowstone so that this shit never happens?</quote> There's no "cooling" down where the lava is trust me. We could relieve some of that built up pressure though and that's not a fix of the problem, it's just delaying the inevitable</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
pls 10/14/17 12:04:24 AM #23:	DreadedWave posted... Good. apolloooo posted... Good. End this shit show called humanity already. May future species fare better than this seek help <cite>pls posted [p:888398391] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote><cite>DreadedWave posted...</cite> <quote>Good.</quote> <cite>apolloooo posted...</cite> <quote>Good. End this shit show called humanity already. May future species fare better than this</quote> seek help</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
chill02 10/14/17 12:06:43 AM #24:	DreadedWave posted... Good. --- Ave, true to Caesar. <cite>chill02 posted [p:888398507] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote><cite>DreadedWave posted...</cite> <quote>Good.</quote></quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 10/14/17 12:08:22 AM #25:	No. The world isn't going to end - just everything between the rocky mountains and missouri river. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:888398569] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>No. The world isn't going to end - just everything between the rocky mountains and missouri river.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
pls 10/14/17 12:08:56 AM #26:	chill02 posted... DreadedWave posted... Good. seek help <cite>pls posted [p:888398588] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote><cite>chill02 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>DreadedWave posted...</cite> <quote>Good.</quote></quote> seek help</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Seneca_Wallace_ 10/14/17 12:10:00 AM #27:	welp nice knowing everyone. it's been fun. --- Seattle Seahawks: Super Bowl XLVIII CHAMPS! GO HAWKS! Formerly known as BlueMenace84 <cite>Seneca_Wallace_ posted [p:888398626] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>welp nice knowing everyone. it's been fun.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Questionmarktarius 10/14/17 12:12:10 AM #29:	ImAMarvel posted... http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170817-nasas-ambitious-plan-to-save-earth-from-a-supervolcano http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Inferno_(TV_story) <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:888398719] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote><cite>ImAMarvel posted...</cite> <quote>http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170817-nasas-ambitious-plan-to-save-earth-from-a-supervolcano</quote> http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Inferno_(TV_story)</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
voldothegr8 10/14/17 9:26:26 AM #30:	MakoReizei posted... Fear mongering For what purpose? --- Oda break tracker 2017- 8 (3) \| THE Ohio State: 5-1 \| Oakland Raiders: 2-3 Super Mario Maker Profile: 1237-0000-0073-02FE <cite>voldothegr8 posted [p:888412293] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote><cite>MakoReizei posted...</cite> <quote>Fear mongering</quote> For what purpose?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Irony 10/14/17 9:27:26 AM #31:	The lulz --- I am Mogar, God of Irony and The Devourer of Topics. http://i.imgtc.com/tHc3mIo.png http://i.imgtc.com/PYxw8Lm.png <cite>Irony posted [p:888412320] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>The lulz</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
AlisLandale 10/14/17 9:36:52 AM #32:	So this is the true purpose of SpaceX. Elon Musk is basically Jor-El. --- Currently Binging: Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex http://i.imgtc.com/YQId2Bz.png <cite>AlisLandale posted [p:888412593] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>So this is the true purpose of SpaceX. Elon Musk is basically Jor-El.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
smoliske 10/14/17 6:51:37 PM #33:	I look forward to repopulating humanity <cite>smoliske posted [p:888437114] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>I look forward to repopulating humanity</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
SlashmanSG 10/14/17 6:53:21 PM #34:	Pretty sure the Earth will survive. --- Fight Science with Wood http://i.imgur.com/MMRZgNi.gif http://i.imgur.com/Um0p3xx.gif http://i.imgur.com/MIbbUHB.gif <cite>SlashmanSG posted [p:888437226] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>Pretty sure the Earth will survive.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
pres_madagascar 10/14/17 6:56:27 PM #35:	I live in Arizona. I'd be dead in the first hours of the eruption so I won't have to suffer like some of y'all in Europe and such will. --- http://i.imgur.com/23CCcZB.jpg http://i.imgur.com/32mwCo1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/oqklqKC.jpg <cite>pres_madagascar posted [p:888437424] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>I live in Arizona. I'd be dead in the first hours of the eruption so I won't have to suffer like some of y'all in Europe and such will.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
smoliske 10/14/17 7:05:31 PM #36:	SlashmanSG posted... Pretty sure the Earth will survive. the planet will, but volcanic winter will create a genetic bottleneck <cite>smoliske posted [p:888437951] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote><cite>SlashmanSG posted...</cite> <quote>Pretty sure the Earth will survive.</quote> the planet will, but volcanic winter will create a genetic bottleneck</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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1NfamousACE_2 10/14/17 7:09:41 PM #38:	Just pour water on it, duh --- #Free OJ Simpson <cite>1NfamousACE_2 posted [p:888438178] in World to c... [t:75876934]...</cite> <quote>Just pour water on it, duh</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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