A Completely Unrelated Series of Thoughts....

[Izret101]

Do i live in the only nonmajor earthquake area?
I know we get lost of earthquakes but most of them happen to far out at sea and are to small to have any real effect.
Dont we have another Ice Age that was suposed to happen soon too? or already was supposed to happen.

Man things in this country world are going down the tube.

[shadytool]

Yeah, actually it's only an hour's drive from here.  The first time it went off, if it would of blown the other way I wouldn't be here right now.

didnt it go off in 1980?  were you around then?
and that map is nice... i'd head for higher ground if i were you.  

@ nep:  are you serious??

[Zimbacca]

wops that was St. Helens town,  I'm looking for the actual thing.  

[Hydrobond]

Yeah, there is a massive volcano under yellowstone, and yes we are way overdue.  It's cycle is 600,000 years and it is 40,000 years overdue.  

The explosion would send ash, dust, and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, reflecting the sun's rays and creating a cold wave lasting several years.

http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm

[Izret101]

That only talks about 2 volcanos in Yellowstone. I thought there was a 3rd caldera. 1 came up almost right next to the other. I thought i saw a show about it on discovery channel or something like that. Maybe they formed during the same eruption?

[Zimbacca]

didnt it go off in 1980?  were you around then?
and that map is nice... i'd head for higher ground if i were you.  

@ nep:  are you serious??

It was 1984.  I wasn't born yet, but my parents were living here at the time.  
I found the real thing.  I don't know how, but I was pointing into Oregon.  Anyway, I had to mix two maps together the scale is the same between them and I lined them up as best I could.  But I got the right one.  
That place Amboy is the only place that I know where you can buy chain saws and hard alcohol in the same store.  

[Izret101]

That place Amboy is the only place that I know where you can buy chain saws and hard alcohol in the same store.  

I will keep that in mind when visiting the westcoast. I know of no place on the entire eastcoast were this is possible.

[Zimbacca]

Amboy and Yacolt are the two most hick filled places in the county.  

[danvx6]

Not cool, so many people will die and lose homes and it will be cold for years damn that would suck.

[Lord Nepenthean]

Yeah, there is a massive volcano under yellowstone, and yes we are way overdue.  It's cycle is 600,000 years and it is 40,000 years overdue.  

http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm

You know, I was thinking it was 40,000 years, but I didn't want to say that and be 30,000 off....  since that is kind of a big difference.

@IZRET - Yes, there is a third caldera.  If you really want, I can check my geography notes from last year and get you the info.

[Zimbacca]

I'll keep you guys updated on Mt. St. Helens.  I know we're going to be talking about it in CWI (contemporary world issues).

[Lord Nepenthean]

Holy crap.  The Huckleberry Ridge Caldera, which was formed two million years ago put out 2500 CUBIC KILOMETERS of magma/ash/etc.  The 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption, on the other hand put out about 0.3 square kilometers of matter.  No comparisson there at all.

These are the three cycles of Yellowstone:

[Zimbacca]

I've seen that first chart.  Yeah the Mt. St. Helens one was a pussy shot compared to some of the other ones.  I also saw another chart that had the ten most powerful eruptions of all time (since a record has been kept) and I think St. Helens was number 8 or something.

[Arrrhalomynn]

well, at least SOMETHING is going on.

[Sauza12]

Time for everyone to move to Michigan and Ohio!  Damn, that would be a vicous eruption.