Beendare
WKR
Thats the title of an interesting article in the WSJ today.
Excerpt;
In 2017 scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory evaluated the caldera’s energy flows as well as the potential dam-age and probability of a super-volcanic eruption, which has happened at Yellowstone three times previously. The last such eruption was 631,000 years ago; the one before that was 669,000 years prior. It’s not a matter of if it’ll erupt but when. The JPL found that the devastation of such an eruption would exceed that of an asteroid 1½ miles wide crashing to Earth.
They go on to predict over 3“ of volcanic ash as far as Lincoln, Ne and create massive devastation.The thoery on drilling is to release the pressure that would also create clean geothermal energy. The drilling is currently prohibited in Nat Parks.
Seems like I saw a similar article in Popular Mechanics 40 yrs ago That this caldera is a ticking time bomb.
Excerpt;
In 2017 scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory evaluated the caldera’s energy flows as well as the potential dam-age and probability of a super-volcanic eruption, which has happened at Yellowstone three times previously. The last such eruption was 631,000 years ago; the one before that was 669,000 years prior. It’s not a matter of if it’ll erupt but when. The JPL found that the devastation of such an eruption would exceed that of an asteroid 1½ miles wide crashing to Earth.
They go on to predict over 3“ of volcanic ash as far as Lincoln, Ne and create massive devastation.The thoery on drilling is to release the pressure that would also create clean geothermal energy. The drilling is currently prohibited in Nat Parks.
Seems like I saw a similar article in Popular Mechanics 40 yrs ago That this caldera is a ticking time bomb.