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Topic subjectIn better news: Yellowstone might be about to explode and kill us all.
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13275076, In better news: Yellowstone might be about to explode and kill us all.
Posted by stravinskian, Wed Jul-18-18 08:50 AM
The last time something like this happened, the Toba supereruption

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

was the biggest mass-extinction event in recent history, with release of toxic gases on a worldwide scale, ash clouds blocking most of the sunlight worldwide for nearly a decade, and a thousand-year mini ice age.

If I remember correctly, Yellowstone is a significantly bigger volcano than Toba. It hasn't gone off in more than 600,000 years. But that's bad news. It's behind schedule.

Today's news: the ground is shifting in the Tetons.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5965601/Is-Yellowstone-blow-Vast-fissure-sparks-URGENT-closure-Grand-Teton-National-Park.html