Mount ST Helens a Super Volcano?

nooshinjohn
nooshinjohn Posts: 25,380
edited June 2009 in The Clubhouse
I found this interesting read about Mount St Helens... It's scary stuff considering she still blows smoke. Maybe the 1980 eruption was just the beginning...:eek:


http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227124.700-supervolcano-may-be-brewing-beneath-mount-st-helens.html
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited June 2009
    Since this is one of the many things that we as mere mortals have absolutley no control over im not really concerned one way or the other. We have a better chance of stopping a metorite from striking the earth than stopping a volcano from errupting. Why choose to get upset over simething you cant control or even predict?



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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,380
    edited June 2009
    Agreed. I have a deep interest in the way the planet works and find such phenomena interesting to at least have a bit of knowlege about. Besides that, I am bored out of my skull at the moment.
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited June 2009
    Oh, that's near where I live...

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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,721
    edited June 2009
    Doesn't really matter since we already have a 'super-volcano' at Yellowstone. That one is probably much closer to erupting in a 'super' size event than St. Helens. If/when it does, it will wipe out most of the US under a heavy layer of ash/rock.
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited June 2009
    JMO, but I think Kim Jong rattling his nuclear sabre is a little more stressful.
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  • MrNightly
    MrNightly Posts: 3,370
    edited June 2009
    Awww, we are always on the precipice of disaster! If you don't believe in a greater Being with supreme control over everything, from the birds finding food to the stars aligning, it would be very scary world to live in. If everything was indeed left to chance, I don't think I would sleep as soundly at night...


    ...then again, I haven't been sleeping that soundly anyways... but I digress. :D
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited June 2009
    Cap and Trade that MF'er.
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  • TNRabbit
    TNRabbit Posts: 2,168
    edited June 2009
    Here's another link that will give you some idea about the extent of the first eruption; most people have NO IDEA how huge & devastating it was:

    http://www.olywa.net/radu/valerie/mshduring.html
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited June 2009
    zingo wrote: »
    Oh, that's near where I live...

    You should move.
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited June 2009
    Should probably commission Watts to build a REALLY big one of these- and JAM it down Mt St Helens, AND 'Olde Faithful'

    Just make sure they're facing WEST!!!!:eek:
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited June 2009
    If you look at the ash pattern from the 1980 eruption, you can see where this might be an even bigger deal than Yellowstone.
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited June 2009
    If Yellowstone goes, which it will eventually, it will likely cover the entire continent with 5'' of ash and debris, coast to coast. Global temperatures will drop several degrees, and weather patterns will change for years. Welcome to Barter Town.
    If I had to pick one from the menu, I'd take another duck **** from St. Helens please.
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  • skipf
    skipf Posts: 694
    edited June 2009
    If you want a live look at St. Helens, go Here:
    http://www.oregonlive.com/volcanocam/
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,380
    edited June 2009
    SKsolutions wrote: »
    If Yellowstone goes, which it will eventually, it will likely cover the entire continent with 5'' of ash and debris, coast to coast. Global temperatures will drop several degrees, and weather patterns will change for years. Welcome to Barter Town.
    If I had to pick one from the menu, I'd take another duck **** from St. Helens please.
    IF the scientists are correct, the caldera of a Mount St Helens SUPER VOLCANO stretches back to Mt Raineer, with a magma chamber at least 5 times the size of the one at Yellowstone. This, combined with thefact that this area is covered in granite, as opposed to the softer materials of Yellowstone means that a potential St.Helens super volcano could be several orders of magnitude more powerful than anything Yellowstone could produce.
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  • TNRabbit
    TNRabbit Posts: 2,168
    edited June 2009
    YEAH, and MY volcano can beat up YOUR volcano~
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited June 2009
    LOL^^ My eruption is bigger, and I can prove it.

    My point was that there is a long history of Yellowstone erupting every 600-800K years and changing the face of the entire planet for a few years. There is no history of Helens ever doing the same, and a small team of people from New Zealand offering an opinion or theory of what may or may not be possible isn't a substitute. If you look at the scale and history of both, there is no comparison.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,726
    edited June 2009
    Don't worry, I'm sure we humans will find a way of destroying ourselves long before nature does it for us...
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited June 2009
    So, this thing will kill us all sometime between now and a million years from now... I'll take my chances I suppose..
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  • mdoug33
    mdoug33 Posts: 28
    edited June 2009
    Seems like everyday they find someother way to tell us we are all doomed in one way or another sooner or later!
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited June 2009
    mdoug33 wrote: »
    Seems like everyday they find someother way to tell us we are all doomed in one way or another sooner or later!

    That explains the recent spending spree.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited June 2009
    jdhdiggs wrote: »
    So, this thing will kill us all sometime between now and a million years from now... I'll take my chances I suppose..

    CRAP! Really? Dang, I was gonna go to Vermont next Friday! :(
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    edited June 2009
    I had a gaseous eruption in the car coming home from Noahs. It caused a 12 car pile up behind me on I-81 in Viginia.:o Shoulda kept the windows rolled up.
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited June 2009
    Killer Volcanoes are almost a cool as global killer asteroids.

    Joe vs. Volcano = Meg Ryan
    Armageddon = Liv Tyler

    I'd be concerned about anyone that worried about either even happening.
    That doesn't make it less interesting to me though. . Pompeii and Toba as historical cases in point. Toba may have almost extincted our species.
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,380
    edited June 2009
    Agreed... I am fascinated by the awesome power of the planet to remake itself with.... or without us. This is perhaps why I am inclined to believe the global warming crap can be attributed to one cause, the SUN. I don't loose sleep over it by any means, unless I cannot turn off the Discovery Channel.
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  • SKsolutions
    SKsolutions Posts: 1,820
    edited June 2009
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    Agreed... I am fascinated by the awesome power of the planet to remake itself with.... or without us. This is perhaps why I am inclined to believe the global warming crap can be attributed to one cause, the SUN. I don't loose sleep over it by any means, unless I cannot turn off the Discovery Channel.


    There was elephant in the room. I'm glad you said it. :D
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited June 2009
    If you don't believe in global warming......You're a WITCH!!!:eek::D



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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,380
    edited June 2009
    If you don't believe in global warming......You're a WITCH!!!


    Yeah... I guess you can burn me without the PF1,000,000 sunblock:p
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,952
    edited June 2009
    obieone wrote: »
    Should probably commission Watts to build a REALLY big one of these- and JAM it down Mt St Helens, AND 'Olde Faithful'

    Just make sure they're facing WEST!!!!:eek:

    Nah.....south...towards Cali,kill two birds with one stone sort of thing.
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  • jojomgee
    jojomgee Posts: 198
    edited June 2009
    2012 she's gonna blow....lol
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    heiney9 Posts: 25,163
    edited June 2009
    jojomgee wrote: »
    2012 she's gonna blow....lol

    Yer almost to 25 posts......whatcha got to **** in the FM?
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