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wdlove said:
It just seems to be an indication that Mt. St. Helen's is in an active phase. Maybe better for the residents that it releases some stream and ash in small amounts occasionally. Than to have the large blowup that occurred about 20 years ago.

25 years ago this May. (It was my sister's 8th birthday. Now THERE'S a birthday you'll never forget. I can't remember what happened on my own birthday that year, but I certainly remember hers.)
 
AliensAreFuzzy said:
Not yet, but the CIA has started an official investigation

and is expected to recommend the president to invade Poland, Swaziland and Togo on the off chance they were involved, somehow, maybe....
 
PlaceofDis said:
just out of curiosity.....which valcano is the largest? i know St Helens is up there, but is that the largest we have or is there another bigger one?

The biggest volcano in the US is Yellowstone.

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/faqs.html

If it blows, we're screwed.

"The three caldera-forming eruptions, respectively, were about 2,500, 280, and 1,000 times larger than the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington State."

"the three largest Yellowstone eruptions emitted much more material than the eruptions of Mount St. Helens (1980), Mount Pinatubo (1991), Krakatau (1883), Mount Mazama (7,600 years ago), and Tambora (1815)."

"Three extremely large explosive eruptions have occurred at Yellowstone in the past 2.1 million years with a recurrence interval of about 600,000 to 800,000 years"

The last one was 640,000 years ago...
 
Talking about those big pyroclastic "supervolcanoes", I believe one of the biggest is in the middle of the North Island of New Zealand - in Taupo.

When THAT puppy blows, then the World will know.

Auckland (a city of over 1.2 million people in New Zealand), on the other hand, resides on no fewer than 63 DORMANT volcanoes - and is long overdue for an eruption. It is of interest to note that if just ONE erupts, there will be a disaster of cataclysmic proportions...

There is an active volcano off the Bay of Plenty coast of the North Island called White Island - it is continually in a state of eruption, and is known as the "vent" of the country. If the activity ceases, geologists get worried enough to call in the air force to bomb the caldera...!
 
Chappers said:
and is expected to recommend the president to invade Poland, Swaziland and Togo on the off chance they were involved, somehow, maybe....


Turns out it was all bogus, the cia got the documents from cbs. :p
 
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Apparently almost the entire area of yellowstone national park is one huge volcano that has erupted at least three times in history.

Bill Bryson, in 'A Short History of Nearly Everything', discusses Yellowstone Park - a really good read.
 
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