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   Huge to JAB   
   Re: supervolcano hysteria   
   19 Oct 17 11:00:15   
   
   From: Huge@nowhere.much.invalid   
      
   On 2017-10-19, JAB  wrote:   
   > On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:14:55 -0400, RS Wood    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>I highly doubt it will be some   
   >>submerged geological terror that does us in.   
   >   
   >   
   > "The last full-scale eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano, the   
   > Lava Creek eruption which happened approximately 640,000 years   
   > ago,[29] ejected approximately 240 cubic miles (1,000 km3) of rock,   
   > dust and volcanic ash into the sky.[3]"   
   >   
   > Geologists are closely monitoring the rise and fall of the Yellowstone   
   > Plateau, which has been rising as fast as 0.6 inches (1.5 cm) per   
   > year, as an indication of changes in magma chamber pressure.[30][31]   
   >   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera   
      
   Go and see it while it's still there (Yellowstone is very pretty) ...   
      
   :o)   
      
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