Yellowstone Geyser Explodes

[msharley]

Right up until they aren't.

Someone got some 'splainin' to do....

Them taco smell wrappers....sure pack a mean punch!

 

[Aus_Schwaben]

Don't tell me - let me guess - some touron (tourist moron) drove their vehicle into a geyser?

 

[BigRed]

Global warming.
Pay more tax.

 

[1911'S 4 Me]

I'm no geologist, but aren't all volcanos underground?

No some spew out of their mouths.

 

[Mohawk600]

No some spew out of their mouths.

and asses

 

[Rafe]

An underground volcano.

One of the largest super-volcanoes in the world. The actual Yellowstone caldera is 43 miles long by 28 miles wide. That caldera formed in an eruption about 640,000 years ago. If another eruption that size happened, a lot of CONUS--and a chunk of Texas--would be buried under layers of ash, the effects of which would be global. Talk about climate change.

On the bright side, the odds of a Yellowstone eruption within the next thousand years is pretty slim. But here's an interesting map from the USGS of what the heaviest ash coverage looked like from several historic eruptions: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/map-known-ash-fall-boundaries-several-us-eruptions. Wrote a story a few years ago where an unidentified, enemy nation-state actor used a Yellowstone eruption as the trigger to execute coordinated EMP detonations and bring the U.S. to its knees.