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Originally posted by astrocreep
You're not far off the mark. Check my signature for a link to the research. Also, earlier this week, I did a thematic map which took the Yellowstone Caldera and buffered a 600 mile radius around it (the danger zone) and using the Census numbers from 200 did a statistical analysis of the number of the population impacted by such an eruption. Somthing like 16 and a half million people and thats not couting the portion of Canada which I don't have population stats for yet. Still trying to include those.
Originally posted by astrocreep
Acts of Nature and acts of purposful hatred are 2 different things.
Originally posted by Hamilton
Originally posted by astrocreep
Acts of Nature and acts of purposful hatred are 2 different things.
Yes, and that was in response to? I simply said that I believe that 911 and Mars were staged in order to draw the minds of the masses away from the fact that Yellowstone seems to go off any day now....
Blessings,
Mikromarius
Originally posted by SpittinCobra
I wonder if i will be able to see it happen, Im on the 24th floor looking west in chicago. Im sure the earths curve will stop me from seeing it , unless it goes high enough.
Heres a cool link.
armageddononline.tripod.com...
Immediately before the eruption, there would be large earthquakes in the Yellowstone region. The ground would swell further with most of Yellowstone being uplifted. One earthquake would finally break the layer of rock that holds the magma in - and all the pressure the Earth can build up in 640,000 years would be unleashed in a cataclysmic event.
Magma would be flung 50 kilometres into the atmosphere. Within a thousand kilometres virtually all life would be killed by falling ash, lava flows and the sheer explosive force of the eruption. Volcanic ash would coat places as far away as Iowa and the Gulf of Mexico. One thousand cubic kilometres of lava would pour out of the volcano, enough to coat the whole of the USA with a layer 5 inches thick. The explosion would have a force 2,500 times that of Mount St. Helens. It would be the loudest noise heard by man for 75,000 years, the time of the last super volcano eruption. Within minutes of the eruption tens of thousands would be dead.
The long-term effects would be even more devastating. The thousands of cubic kilometres of ash that would shoot into the atmosphere could block out light from the sun, making global temperatures plummet. This is called a nuclear winter. As during the Sumatra eruption a large percentage of the world's plant life would be killed by the ash and drop in temperature. Also, virtually the entire of the grain harvest of the Great Plains would disappear in hours, as it would be coated in ash. Similar effects around the world would cause massive food shortages. If the temperatures plummet by the 21 degrees they did after the Sumatra eruption the Yellowstone super volcano eruption could truly be an extinction level event.