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In the seventies, Newsweek, Time and Nat Geo warned about the coming Ice Age. Then it was the ozone layer. Next up, Global Warming. Now, it’s more fear of a global cool down caused by a catastrophic volcanic eruption.
Yeah, no kidding. We’ve been fortunate not to be hit with a major catastrophe in modern history.
Yellowstone is within its normal window for a massive eruption, but not yet over due. Imagine that decimation. Here’s the sunny outlook from The Hill: When the Yellowstone Caldera, or “supervolcano,” in Yellowstone National Park erupts again, “its effects would be worldwide,” the U.S. Geographical Survey said. In the U.S., the closest states to Yellowstone, including Montana, Idaho and Wyoming, could be “affected by destructive pyroclastic flows, which are a mix of lava blocks, pumice, ash and volcanic gas that flows around a volcano after an eruption,” said The Hill. “Much of the rest of the country could be blanketed in falling volcanic ash — in some places, it could be more than three feet deep.” Globally, the volcano could also “impact the global climate by emitting ash and gas into the stratosphere, which could block sunlight and lower global temperatures for a few years,” Michael Poland from the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory said to LiveScience. The resulting catastrophe could “shut down transportation, collapse buildings, short-out the electrical grid and cause massive agricultural failure,” the University of British Columbia’s Johan Gilchrist said to CBC Radio.
Mono-Inyo in SE California is overdue. The last one created Mammoth Mountain.
How about the Cascades? Per Wikipedia, and a study quoted by KUOW in Seattle, “Statistics place the likelihood of a major eruption in the Cascade Range at 2–3 per century.” It’s been 44 years. Looks like the Cascades are due, and that includes Shasta. Lassen erupted in the early 20th century. Mt Adams in Washington appears to be the most dangerous, but behind St Helen’s as the most likely.
Fun times ahead!
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Ouch. I remember Mt. St. Helens.
Supposedly, Axial Seamount, 210 miles off the coast of Oregon is ready to erupt in 2025. It’s the most carefully measured undersea volcano in the world, last erupting in 2015. Apparently all the conditions are there again. It won’t/shouldn’t affect human life, but doesn’t look pretty.
Scientists Warn of an Undersea Volcano Eruption Near Oregon Coast in 2025
Audaces fortuna iuvat
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