Hidden deep beneath the Earth's surface lie one of the most destructive
and yet least-understood natural phenomena in the world - No, I dont
mean the common-or-garden mole!

Only a handful supervolcanoes exist in the world but when one erupts it
will be unlike any volcano we have ever witnessed.

The explosion will be heard around the world. The sky will darken, black
rain will fall, and the Earth will be plunged into the equivalent of a
nuclear winter.

The last supervolcano to erupt was Toba 74,000 years ago in Sumatra. Ten
thousand times bigger than Mt St Helens, it created a global catastrophe
dramatically affecting life on Earth.

Yellowstone Park - is one of the largest supervolcanoes in the world.

Scientists have revealed that it has been on a regular eruption cycle of
600,000 years. The last eruption was 640,000 years ago... so the next is
overdue. (Nearly as exciting as hearing "Darling, Im late")

Huge areas of the USA would be destroyed, the US economy would probably
collapse, and thousands might die.

And it would devastate the planet.

Climatologists now know that Toba blasted so much ash and sulphur
dioxide into the stratosphere that it blocked out the sun, causing the
Earth's temperature to plummet.

Some geneticists now believe that this had a catastrophic effect on
human life, possibly reducing the population on Earth to just a few
thousand people.

Mankind was pushed to the edge of extinction... and it could happen
again.

I have heard say you can set a watch by Old Faithful.

Now, Roy, thats not a nice thing to say about Bobby!!

I know, Duncan but what can I say?

He is a bit of an old geyser .. but you have to love him ... even in a
silly hat!

Is this like a re-set button?

Taking global warming/cooling to the extreme, or the natural?

Sounds appropriate..I put $5 on five year's time for delivery..it would
fit.

this is like the ctrl-alt-del on your pc.

The whole thing reloads, and then the program starts again with less
things clogging it up.

I think 40,000 years is late for us guys to wait for a woman, even if
she is Mother Nature

That third rock on the left, at Devil's Marbles, near Uluru, is looking
more, and more like prime real estate...underground.

yep ... according to the BBC,

The Northern Hemisphere could cool by up to 12 degrees. Experts say
colder temperatures could last 6-10 years, gradually returning to
normal.

Scientists predict that the Monsoon would fail as a result of even
larger temperature changes in the Southern Hemisphere, causing mass
starvation in the Asian countries that depend on these life-giving
rains.

Temperatures in Europe could be at least 5 degrees cooler the summer
after the eruption.

Doesnt say anything about Oz though ... so, move over, that hole better
be big enough

Eh so you're telling me I should move to Europe or Australia

Perhaps not Austrilia...

There are other known supervolcanos.

Lake Taupo, North Island, New Zealand - Oruanui eruption 26,500 years
ago (1,170 km³)
Lake Toba, Sumatra, Indonesia - 75,000 years ago (2,800 km³)
Yellowstone Caldera, Wyoming, United States - 2.2 million years ago
(2,500 km³) and 640,000 years ago (1,000 km³)
La Garita Caldera, Colorado, United States - Source of the truly
enormous eruption of the Fish Canyon Tuff 27.8 million years ago (~5,000
km³)

There are also suspected supervolcanos near Siberia and off the Canary
Islands.

The current techonology also does not allow them to measure if there are
such volcanos under the sea floor.

Thank's Belushi, you really made my day!

Just a hypothetical question.

What would happen if two or more of them went off at the same time?

And another.

They measure the matter ejected from these volcanos. Did anyone ever do
a study on what changes it would make in the earths orbit about the sun?

AB ... if two of them went off together, then Im not sure anyone would
be around to actually care if the earth moved out of orbit.

But if one of any of the supervolcanoes went off, you could pretty much
cancel out two thirds of the planet in terms of inhabitablility.

If it went off in NZ, then the UK would be ok, but in Yellowstone, the
winds would cause the ash to fly over the North Pole and affect the
northern hemisphere, so Australia would be ok in that event.

Because the UK and most of Northern Europe is smack dab in the middle of
a techtonic plate, the likelihood of a supervolcano going off here is
non-existant.

But 500-800 miles around Yellowstone = 90% death rate ... thats scary.

Not being huge on NW US Geography what is within 800 miles of
Yellowstone????

yep i would say millions not thousands of casualties

not to mention the effect of the loss of

the united states as a super power

now ya be hoping it will be yellow stonew

As much as I hate what the US govt has done to the world, I would baulk
at the idea of the immense loss of life in that area should this natural
disaster occur.

Plus, I have close friends who lives in Moscow, Idaho, so they would
bite it ... not keen on that idea

Revelation 6:12-14
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I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake;
and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon
became like blood; and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig
tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. The sky was
split apart like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and
island were moved out of their places.
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that is good to here

defastation of """the people"""

is a bad thing no matter where they are

i just wish """the people""" in this country

would take back """"their (our)"""" country

at one time it was

for the people by the people

but now it is

for the corperation by the corperation

how sad is that

those elected selling their souls for a few pieces of silver

I doubt if there is a country in the world whose government has not
'sold' themeselves out for a bit of silver and such.

Ab, although there is some 'sell out', one country and a close neighbour
of mine, seems to really mind their 'p's and 'q's, is New Zealand.

I know there has been much challenge in past history with their
Indigenous, the Maori's, as most invading colonists created, however, it
appears, and I could be wrong, New Zealand, does not get too 'intimate'
with a lot of the global squabbles, and appear to trade in a much more
ethical way.

They are not part of the coalition forces,in the recent squabbles, they
do not allow nuclear stuff anywhere near their country, and for all
appearance sake, just mind their own business.

Perhaps Lake Taupo, and it's bubbling potential, has them much more
mindful of their actions, as a government and a country.