Get Your Pic-A-Nic Baskets, and RUN!!
Val emailed me this article earlier today and I'm just curious if anyone else has heard of this before. Basically the article says that "Five miles beneath Yellowstone, lies an immense pool of red hot magma. Fed from the Earth's mantle, it has been growing. This reservoir of magma and gas is now 31 miles long, 19 miles wide, and six miles deep. The building pressures must be enormous." And then goes on to talk about how a massive eruption would be catastrophic to North America. Ya know, freezing temperatures caused by the blanket of ash and dust, massive earthquakes all over, blah blah blah, etc, etc, all that good end of the world kind of stuff. Now, i'm not quite ready to relocate to Thailand just yet, but I am curious. Has anyone ever heard of this before? It seems like if there was some global killing volcano buried beneath a national park, I feel like I would have heard of it before. Not sure though, it's not like I look up volcanoes or national parks very often, but still I like to think I'm a fairly knowledgable gentleman. (I AM TOO A GENTLEMAN...okay, but I'm knowledgeable regardless). So I'm just curious if this is just volcano paranoia stirred up by Mt. St. Helens, OR a website trying to cash in on teh paranoia caused by Mt. St. Helens. Not real familiar with this Earthside.com, but again, it's not like I spend a lot of time reading about stuff like this. So anyway, just curious, and also passing it along if it is true, cause it's interesting, if it's accurate.