Yellowstone Supervolcano Making Strange Rumblings

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."

Comments

Re:I'm scared

[Joe U]

It took thousands of workers eight months to clear 1.8 billion tons of debris from the sixteen acres of the World Trade Center site in New York.

It's ok, if it erupts then Rudy Giuliani & Christie Whitman will declare the air is safe and we'll condemn some more people to a slow horrible death, just like the WTC.

Loss of USA is cheap if it solves global warming..

[Joce640k]

If it solves global warming then the loss of the USA is a cheap price to pay.