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more about #volcanoes joetato: So realtors working for Super-Villains looking for a secret lair location will be falling all over each other in a mad bidding war, the likes of which... more » alphanumeric1971: Yeah, I saw the Discovery Channel special all ready. more » stereobot: If Yellowstone blows up, we all die. more » Charles Keila: i have to say that your geo-porn is the third best porn on the internet.Behind the pirate and the midget variety that is more » acrobatic rabbit: Coming Soon: Pierce Brosnan vs. Tommy Lee Jones atop the MOST DEADLY VOLCANO ON EARTH yep, I'm taking scripts now. more » Belabras: Horay for the return of the new gallery! more » EhnoValemount: I don't mean to get all republican here- but isn't it funny how worked up we're getting about global warming when something like this supervolcano goi... more » Pope John Peeps II: I hear Spider Man 4 will pit Emo Parker against the Supervolcano, played by Jim Carrey. more » 92BuickLeSabre: As noted by others below. Hey Yellowstone Supervolcano! You need to be careful here, cause your starting to sound a little too much like the Boy Who... more » Blue_Thark: Just visited Yellowstone over Independence Day weekend (I currently live less than 3 hours away)... Some really fascinating things to see, and I think... more » RandomFrequentFlierDent-Hogswatch!: This is on my list of Things That Scare The Shit Out Of Me along with the Cumbre Vieja in the Canary Islands and 99942 Apophis. more » LittleDragon: They thought it was going to blow about three years ago when they had ground swelling occurring. My and my mom are volcano fanatics so we were all ove... more » Chris R: Discovery Channel chose this to be their "Disaster of the Year" a few years back with specials and impending doom from which none of us will survive. ... more » kosai: I am going to have to start checking the yellowstone observatory page on a regular basis. volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo I can't believe 77 earthquakes is nor... more » Promethean: Alarmists shoulf note that they're talking about geological time scales here, and so the concept of "heading for" a mass extinction event could still ... more » tk.: Well, all of this talk certainly makes me less worried about the sun going supernova or dying out, or the magnetic pole reversal knocking us off of ou... more » gorehound: nuclear war would kill the planet in a day more » GreyHammer: when the robots come and then the zombies after there will be no escape. then the robots will fight the zombies causing robot-zombies and they will ro... more » Daveinva: "Arens and West's work also suggests that Earth may be headed for a new mass extinction, because climate change is a common form of press event, and a... more » Smeagol92055: Bah, keep your volcanoes and your meteors, I can do it quicker and cheaper. I'll just jet out to the moon and then slice the Earth in half with a lase... more » -
#geophysicalporn
The Supervolcano That's About to Shatter Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park boasts dozens of geysers and broiling eruptions. But they're nothing compared to the massive volcano that bubbles beneath the park, and could unleash a world-altering blast. Check out these images of the megablast-in-waiting. More » -
#apocalypse
Scientists Explain How to Cause a Mass Extinction
Life on Earth probably wouldn't be extinguished by a comet strike alone. Mass extinctions require at least two kinds of mega-events, one of which is often a volcano that erupts for thousands of years. More » -
#disaster
Volcanoes in Alaska Are "Hopping," Says Scientist
Witness the glory of one of the two massive volcanoes erupting today in Alaska. Here you can see a satellite's-eye-view of the plumes from Okmok Caldera, floating out between the clouds over the coast. Though Okmok has been erupting for several days, it was joined recently by Mount Cleveland, off the coast in the Aleutian Islands. More eruption below. More »
