"Want More Disasters? The Yellowstone Super Volcano"

"Want More Disasters? The Yellowstone Super Volcano"
by Tom Rose

"The Yellowstone Super Volcano is way overdue for eruption. By about 30,000 years! In February 2010 scientists monitoring the seismic readings in the area revealed that the activity had doubled over the last year... and that the rumblings were getting closer to the surface of the Earth. What to do? Make a super cool HD movie about it! At least, that's what SyFy is doing. They've decided to shoot a scripted story about the eruption and its effects on the North American continent - and the rest of the world.

In this clip from FYI the science is explained a little better. It seems that a giant plug of solid rock has been holding back the giant magma flow underneath Yellowstone. If it dislodges the plume would destroy everything within 100 square miles and the ash cloud could cause nuclear winter around the globe. So when the film comes out, just remember... it's only a movie!"

- http://www.sott.net/articles/show/209835

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