[News] "Localized hydrothermal explosion"

[AZ Gull]

Visitors to Yellowstone National Park got a little bit more than they bargained for this afternoon. The National Park Service described it as a "localized hydrothermal explosion":-

 

[StonehamPark]

Yellowstone scares the **** outta me.

That decides to go off for real, and it’s goodnight.

 

[Curious Orange]

Yellowstone scares the **** outta me.

That decides to go off for real, and it’s goodnight.

It would make man's contribution to climate change look decidedly insignificant.

 

[Han Solo]

Surely that is exactly what you hope for when visiting a volcano

 

[Eeyore]

Surely that is exactly what you hope for when visiting a volcano

Or my lavatory at 11.00 each day. Mind you, when I pulled the flushed mine today two of my neignbours flushed theirs at the same time. A chain reaction.

 

[The Clamp]

I watched the documentary Kevin Costner did on Yellowstone. He mentions the whole place could literally be blown sky high if one of the subterranean volcanoes has a bad day!

 

[AZ Gull]

Surely that is exactly what you hope for when visiting a volcano

Sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for:-

 

[Bry Nylon]

That decides to go off for real, and it’s goodnight.

That thread title - and your comment quoted above - reminds me of a post @Hiney once made, concerning the next-day repercussions of a night spent on the beer and curry.

What made the post particularly memorable was that @Hiney had put his back out and so Mrs Hiney had to join him in the downstairs lavatory to undertake extensive clean-up and salvage operations, in the most testing of conditions.

Ah. Simpler times on NSC back then…

 

[StonehamPark]

…Mrs Hiney had to join him in the downstairs lavatory to undertake extensive clean-up and salvage operations, in the most testing of conditions.

Jesus Christ. Yea, I’d take Yellowstone over that.

 

[Barham's tash]

As a species we're so complacent about geological timescales it's hilarious. Ooh this hasn't gone properly bang for xxxx thousands of years so lets build duck board walkways right up to the vent.

As others have said Yellowstone scares the bejesus out of me and it's potential impacts are literally planet changing if it went. As a Supervolcano it is probably the biggest as yet to erupt in human timescales but if it did it's likely to wipe out the entire midwest of the contiguous US states and then most likely eject something in the order of more than 1000 cubic kilometers of material. To give context Pinatubo in the
Phillipines that erupted in 1991 released 10 cubic kilometers and was responsible for global cooling of approx half a degree over the following two years.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

That thread title - and your comment quoted above - reminds me of a post @Hiney once made, concerning the next-day repercussions of a night spent on the beer and curry.

What made the post particularly memorable was that @Hiney had put his back out and so Mrs Hiney had to join him in the downstairs lavatory to undertake extensive clean-up and salvage operations, in the most testing of conditions.

Ah. Simpler times on NSC back then…

That story remains to this day to be my favourite post on NSC

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

As a species we're so complacent about geological timescales it's hilarious. Ooh this hasn't gone properly bang for xxxx thousands of years so lets build duck board walkways right up to the vent.

As others have said Yellowstone scares the bejesus out of me and it's potential impacts are literally planet changing if it went. As a Supervolcano it is probably the biggest as yet to erupt in human timescales but if it did it's likely to wipe out the entire midwest of the contiguous US states and then most likely eject something in the order of more than 1000 cubic kilometers of material. To give context Pinatubo in the
Phillipines that erupted in 1991 released 10 cubic kilometers and was responsible for global cooling of approx half a degree over the following two years.

Sounds nasty. I won't hang my washing up outside today then just in case.

 

[Bold Seagull]

As a species we're so complacent about geological timescales it's hilarious. Ooh this hasn't gone properly bang for xxxx thousands of years so lets build duck board walkways right up to the vent.

As others have said Yellowstone scares the bejesus out of me and it's potential impacts are literally planet changing if it went. As a Supervolcano it is probably the biggest as yet to erupt in human timescales but if it did it's likely to wipe out the entire midwest of the contiguous US states and then most likely eject something in the order of more than 1000 cubic kilometers of material. To give context Pinatubo in the
Phillipines that erupted in 1991 released 10 cubic kilometers and was responsible for global cooling of approx half a degree over the following two years.

Or it doesn't erupt again at all, or for another 500,000 years. Yellowstone is unusual in that other volcanic systems forming a super-volcano don't or haven't erupted multiple times.

Compared to all the other stuff we do that's dangerous, like getting in your car for a drive, I'd say taking a walk around Yellowstone duckboards is safer than many daily choices we make.

 

[Barham's tash]

Or it doesn't erupt again at all, or for another 500,000 years. Yellowstone is unusual in that other volcanic systems forming a super-volcano don't or haven't erupted multiple times.

Compared to all the other stuff we do that's dangerous, like getting in your car for a drive, I'd say taking a walk around Yellowstone duckboards is safer than many daily choices we make.

True, not my intention to scaremonger or kill joy just also being realistic about the potential geohazards. I think I read in a paper the actual odds of a cataclysmic eruption there within our lifetime is something like 0.00000014% however what is clear is the magma is pooling and the dome is growing just not exponentially.

 

[Bold Seagull]

True, not my intention to scaremonger or kill joy just also being realistic about the potential geohazards. I think I read in a paper the actual odds of a cataclysmic eruption there within our lifetime is something like 0.00000014% however what is clear is the magma is pooling and the dome is growing just not exponentially.

It's why we need a Moon base and a Mars colony.

 

[Eric the meek]

Surely that is exactly what you hope for when visiting a volcano

Good point, well made and well presented.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

As a species we're so complacent about geological timescales it's hilarious. Ooh this hasn't gone properly bang for xxxx thousands of years so lets build duck board walkways right up to the vent.

As others have said Yellowstone scares the bejesus out of me and it's potential impacts are literally planet changing if it went. As a Supervolcano it is probably the biggest as yet to erupt in human timescales but if it did it's likely to wipe out the entire midwest of the contiguous US states and then most likely eject something in the order of more than 1000 cubic kilometers of material. To give context Pinatubo in the
Phillipines that erupted in 1991 released 10 cubic kilometers and was responsible for global cooling of approx half a degree over the following two years.

Just like Campi Flegrei near Naples - a series of volcanoes in a massive super volcanic Calerda, with houses built around it.

Phlegraean Fields - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Justice]

Pray for Yogi

 

[Lady Whistledown]

This being the USA, I wonder how many of them will sue the National Parks organisation?

 

[Curious Orange]

Pray for Yogi

Jellystone Park isn't a super volcano as far as I'm aware...