RE: Will Yellowstone erupt?
April 9, 2014 at 12:11 pm
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2014 at 12:27 pm by Jackalope.)
(April 9, 2014 at 11:46 am)Faith No More Wrote: They have sensors all over Yellowstone to measure the way the land is shifting due to the magma chamber. I would assume that there would be some indicator there for a long enough time for there to be some sort of warning for when the thing will erupt.
I'm not convinced any reasonable amount of warning is going to be enough. Fortunately, such eruptions appear rare even on geological timescales.
ETA: In case the context didn't make my meaning obvious, I'm referring to a "supervolcano" eruption, not a more modest eruption that orogenicman speaks of in the next post.
