Yellowstone supervolcano eruption?

[Yawn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_csBXWlUA4


Videos of bison seemingly fleeing Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming have sparked concerns among some bloggers that recent seismic activity could trigger the eruption of the park’s so-called supervolcano.

According to Epoch Times, multiple videos of such incidents have been posted online recently, one of which shows a herd of buffalo allegedly leaving the park and “running for their lives.” Although people behind the discussion acknowledge there’s no way to predict when the park’s massive volcano could erupt, they believe the reaction of the Yellowstone’s animals could signal some kind of alert.

The supervolcano – which was found last year to be 2.5 times larger than previously thought – has not erupted in over 640,000 years, leaving some to speculate that a blast is overdue. If and when it erupts again, the volcano could potentially spew ash over large swathes of North America and cause trouble around the entire planet.

"It would be a global event," Jamie Farrell of the University of Utah told the Associated Press last year. "There would be a lot of destruction and a lot of impacts around the globe."

we're all gna die, nice knowing u

[lemons]

haha they look so cool when they run

[Kardan]

I'm going there in July :(

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Just watched the video, they're hardly running for their lives :P Is this from the onion? :P

[Jordan]

i do believe that they do know when something wrong is going to happen. how accurate they are is another thing but its interesting.

this was like 2 weeks ago and its fake so some say because the shadows on the buffalo don't match the shadows that the poles do (tbh they dont have it at all) and the buffalos do look a bit weird anyway

[Yupt]

I'm more interested in knowing how far they actually ran for rather than if it's gonna explode.

[lemons]

cgi the end is near

[Mr-Trainor]

Yellowstone National Park seems like a cool place to visit, but yeah.. if the whole of it erupted then it'd have global effects. Whether an eruption is overdue or not is debatable, the last was 640,000 years ago as in the OP; before that there was eruptions 1.3 million years ago and 2.1 million years ago. So roughly every 700,000 years, but it could happen at any time really!

Here's a fairly recent article that may be of interest: http://nypost.com/2013/12/12/beneath-yellowstone-a-volcano-that-could-wipe-out-u-s/

[FlyingJesus]

It's more overdue than Jen's baby tbh but the lucky thing about stuff like that is that a few thousand years either side isn't very much time in terms of rocks so chances are it won't go off any time in human history. If it does though, it'll mark the end of it :P

[Chippiewill]

but yeah.. if the whole of it erupted then it'd have global effects.

It would be an extinction level event if the whole of it erupted since the entire sky would be covered by ash.

[Stephen]

better late than never

[Chippiewill]

better late than never

Strictly speaking volcanos are a prime example of why this proverb does not work.