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<blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 2155656" data-attributes="member: 5"><p>If the caldera under Yellowstone were to blow in a super eruption it could make Krakatoa look like an Earth-fart. Aside from the substantial percentage of people at immediate risk due to being in the erpution zone, building collapses across the Midwest US, and death by choking in the ash cloud, the contamination of the water supply (not just rivers and small lakes near the eruption zone but also the Great Lakes account of about 20% of the world's fresh water), the drop in temperature would shame the few degrees drop that came after Krakatoa. Worldwide famine would probably kill more people over the following decade with a series of crop failures around the planet. A super eruption from the caldera in Yellowstone could easily wipe out several hundred million over time.</p><p></p><p>Regarding the megaquake possbilities caused by a pressure release at the subduction zone off of the northwest US coast, the damage and death from the quake and the Tsunamis to follow could easily surpasss what happened last December in the Eastern hemisphere.</p><p></p><p>These events aren't so much fiction as they are cyclical events that we are just now beginning to more fully understand. Pessimism isn't the driving force behind the current trend so much as education. The more we know, the more we can do to avoid some of the death and destruction that follows such events. Geologically speaking, these aren't a matter of "if" so much as "when" even if there's no guarentee that they would happen in our lifetime. Remember, "this might not even happen in our lifetime" is the same as what they said while musnig over computer models the last few years that approximated what happened last December.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark, post: 2155656, member: 5"] If the caldera under Yellowstone were to blow in a super eruption it could make Krakatoa look like an Earth-fart. Aside from the substantial percentage of people at immediate risk due to being in the erpution zone, building collapses across the Midwest US, and death by choking in the ash cloud, the contamination of the water supply (not just rivers and small lakes near the eruption zone but also the Great Lakes account of about 20% of the world's fresh water), the drop in temperature would shame the few degrees drop that came after Krakatoa. Worldwide famine would probably kill more people over the following decade with a series of crop failures around the planet. A super eruption from the caldera in Yellowstone could easily wipe out several hundred million over time. Regarding the megaquake possbilities caused by a pressure release at the subduction zone off of the northwest US coast, the damage and death from the quake and the Tsunamis to follow could easily surpasss what happened last December in the Eastern hemisphere. These events aren't so much fiction as they are cyclical events that we are just now beginning to more fully understand. Pessimism isn't the driving force behind the current trend so much as education. The more we know, the more we can do to avoid some of the death and destruction that follows such events. Geologically speaking, these aren't a matter of "if" so much as "when" even if there's no guarentee that they would happen in our lifetime. Remember, "this might not even happen in our lifetime" is the same as what they said while musnig over computer models the last few years that approximated what happened last December. [/QUOTE]
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