NationStates Jolt Archive

The Tsunami on the 26/12/2004 is still causing problems.
Apart from the 2nd major quake in the same area (and the numerous aftershocks that still continue).

Two Indonesian volcanoes have decided to wake up now.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1344690.htm

And there's a ex-supervolcano, on Sumatra which blew up 74 to 75 thousand years ago with an explosion bigger than the Yellowstone one.

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/vw_hyperexchange/toba.html

I can't wait for the next major basalt flood...

I can't wait for the next major basalt flood...

Toba is dead, but Yellowstone is long overdue to blow up.
Go to America then!

Toba is dead, but Yellowstone is long overdue to blow up.
Go to America then!

I'm already there. Now all I need is a bag of marshmallows, and a long stick.

I'm already there. Now all I need is a bag of marshmallows, and a long stick.

Mt St Helens is a good place to roast (melt, destroy, sulphurize) your marshmellows. It's connected to Yellowstone.

Mt St Helens is a good place to roast (melt, destroy, sulphurize) your marshmellows. It's connected to Yellowstone.
Yellowstone is merely a huge volcano.

The flood basalts in the Columbia River area are what I'm talking about.

Something like the Deccan Traps, Still, both are formed by hot plumes. The flood basalt is a much bigger plume, though.

Yellowstone is merely a huge volcano.

The flood basalts in the Columbia River area are what I'm talking about.

Something like the Deccan Traps, Still, both are formed by hot plumes. The flood basalt is a much bigger plume, though.

Ah. Got to check up my US geology. I live with Indonesia above me, earthquakes and volcanoe land it is. :confused:

We've had several small quakes over the past few days :( I think its about time I attached that bookshelf of mine to the wall.

Mt St Helens is a good place to roast (melt, destroy, sulphurize) your marshmellows. It's connected to Yellowstone.It's also (apaprently) a place where a new glacier has been recently born. The chunk out of the mountain is north-facing, as I understand, and so since the last eruption has accumulated snow and ice in the hollow and provided an unprecedented opportunity for scientific analysis of the creation of a glacier (as opposed to seasonal increases of one in winter...)

It's also (apaprently) a place where a new glacier has been recently born. The chunk out of the mountain is north-facing, as I understand, and so since the last eruption has accumulated snow and ice in the hollow and provided an unprecedented opportunity for scientific analysis of the creation of a glacier (as opposed to seasonal increases of one in winter...)

Wow, we need more glaciers. Most of the other ones are receding.

The Tsunami on the 26/12/2004 is still causing problems.
Apart from the 2nd major quake in the same area (and the numerous aftershocks that still continue).
I thought you were going to talk about the fact that most of the people who died were women, thereby tilting the gender imbalance in those places even more.

Incidently, Lake Taupo (46 km long, 33km wide - about the size of Singapore, and 164m deep) in NZ is also a lake created by a volcano. It pushed so much crap into the air it was reported in China and altered the weather world-wide. It was the fifth largest caldera forming eruption in history. It was rated Ultraplinian (the worst type of volcanic eruption).
About 9 cubic km of pumice was erupted and eruption column heights reached 45-50 km (about twice the height of Vesuvius 79 AD). Ash was distributed over an extremely large area. 50 km downwind the deposit is 1 m thick. At 100 km it is more than 25 cm thick and pumice clasts are up to 3 cm in diameter (compared to 1 cm for Vesuvius 79 AD).
Just in case anyone's interested.