Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 15, 2007 @07:28AM from the if-you-need-me-i'll-be-in-the-netherlands dept.

Frosty Piss writes "Supervolcanoes can sleep for centuries or millennia before producing incredibly massive eruptions that can drop ash across an entire continent. One of the largest supervolcanoes in the world lies beneath Yellowstone National Park. Significant activity continues beneath the surface. And the activity has been increasing lately, scientists have discovered. In addition, the nearby Teton Range of mountains is somehow getting shorter. The findings, reported this month in the Journal of Journal of Geophysical Research, suggest that a slow and gradual movement of a volcano over time can shape a landscape more than a violent eruption."

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Re:Horizon by Martin+Blank · 2007-03-15 07:50 · Score: 0, Redundant

Maybe it will give us some more room to work on global warming...

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Re:50% by MontyApollo · 2007-03-15 08:20 · Score: 0, Redundant

There's a 50% chance that it will happen tomorrow. Either it does... or it doesn't. I love quantum theory.

I don't see how that is modded insightful. Just because there is two possibilities, erupting and non-erupting, it does not mean there is equal chance of either, assuming that erupting was even a quantum event. You could say that it was erupting right now, in some universe.