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I usually don't worry about such things as volcanos erupting and massive earthquakes but the Yellowstone Cauldron is something else. Think of the mouth of a volcano that is 45 miles by 35 miles. If it pops its going to be a nightmare of all nightmares. All those hot springs that look so nice are from the huge fireball that is inching upward. I read that the tar on the roads melt. Maybe its one of those things that will never erupt, just keep underground. But who knows.
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Yes of course. It's all I can think about, keeps me awake at night. You know it could blow at any second in the next million years or so. I'm ready though, I have ten years of food and more ammo stashed than the Dept of Agriculture.
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Yellowstone erupts at intervals of around three quarters of a million years. Since I'm 47, I probably have less than half a century left. Those facts alone should clarify things. And even if one is of the "But it's due!" crowd (it's not 'due' - at present we're about 50,000 years short of the shortest historic interval), there's the simple fact that even if we somehow knew that it would erupt in the next 10,000 years (a far smaller window than the margin of error on such calculi allows), the odds of it happening in any human lifetime would still be 100-1. And, as noted, we don't (and can't) know that.
Basically, I'm not worried about it because I can do basic math.
Nature will do what nature will do. So be it. Worry in this case is just unproductive busywork for your mind, so don't waste time worrying about it. Go grab a pizza, be nice to someone you have never met before, pet a dog, water a plant, do something positive that makes a difference.
Of course we should all be concerned but there isn't much we could do about it if it happens but given the time frame of 10 of thousands of years I think we are Ok.
I'm more concerned about this one since the scientists agree it could happen in decades or within the "foreseeable"
future. Imagine a 150' tsunami wave hitting the east coast of America?
Nature will do what nature will do. So be it. Worry in this case is just unproductive busywork for your mind, so don't waste time worrying about it. Go grab a pizza, be nice to someone you have never met before, pet a dog, water a plant, do something positive that makes a difference.
(BTW it's a caldera.)
Excellent.
That's the thing with humans. They vote, spend lives chasing riches or something else.
Then suddenly - boom, nature steps in and it's ice age or whatever. And nature is very backwards, it does not use email or twitter to send warning messages out. Simply stomps whatever is getting in nature ways. That's why "living like a bird" is about the only right way of doing it.
Of course we should all be concerned but there isn't much we could do about it if it happens but given the time frame of 10 of thousands of years I think we are Ok.
I'm more concerned about this one since the scientists agree it could happen in decades or within the "foreseeable"
future. Imagine a 150' tsunami wave hitting the east coast of America?
That's less likely than the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and this one is reported to have a 7 to 15% chance of causing a tidal tsunami in the next 50 years. It is also likely to cause an earthquake over 9.0, and conceivably could quite possibly be stronger than any earthquake ever recorded. The 2011 Japan quake was 9.0, scientists predict this one will be stronger.
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