Zero Hedge – USGS: Yellowstone Super Volcano Threat Set To “High”
“The United States Geological Survey has increased the Yellowstone supervolcano threat to “high.” This is the first time that the USGS has updated its volcano threat assessments list since 2006.”
” . . . Despite the recent gradual uptick in thermal activity in the caldera directly below the supervolcano, the new USGS threat assessment is showing Yellowstone as stable, but dangerous when it does happen to erupt in the future. . . “
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April 20 – Washington Post – The Yellowstone supervolcano is a disaster waiting to happen
“Yellowstone is capable of eruptions thousands of times more violent than the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980.”
2017 – NASA wants to prevent the Yellowstone super volcano from destroying the US
2015 – The Jet Propulsion Laboratory – DEFENDING HUMAN CIVILIZATION FROM SUPERVOLCANIC ERUPTIONS [PDF]
P. 20 – “While Yellowstone is the greatest supervolcano threat to the U.S. (and perhaps also to all of human civilization), there are two other supervolcanoes within the contiguous 48 states. These are the Long Valley Caldera near Mammoth Lakes CA, and the Valles Caldera near
Los Alamos, NM”