Yellowstone Pops- then what

[longbow]

If yellowstone errupts, how will it impact central and southern indiana.

All I could find out is about an inch to 3 inches of ash makes it our way. Am I missing something.....

I know to the west and north they are screwed. The drawing I remember says everything within 600 miles could be toasted.

[Clay]

Supervolcano FTL!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember watching something on the Yellowstone supervolcano a couple of years ago, probably on the discovery channel. I remember it saying the ground there was raised up like 12" in the last few years, like something is building. Possible ash covering this area is what I remember the possible outcome, but the worst part would be the ash could put into the atmosphere causing the next ice age, or something like that.

[Rooster Cogburn]

I'd like to think I'm a bit Irish: "God tells me he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure your fLucked." Best. Movie. Evah!

The atmosphere would be the most deciding factor in how Indiana, and the rest of the World, would fare after an eruption. Ash fall here in Indiana would be minimal. Our greatest worry would be refugees overloading our system and the atmosphere that ash cloud would produce.

Here is a great link: Yellowstone Eruption

[CarmelHP]

If It can hold off for a thousand years or so I'll be satisfied.

[JBrockman]

Yellowstone uncorking its fury on us is definately a possibility and one that would test each one and our ability to survive. But we have another natural disaster here in our area that if it were to occur would put a strain on our infrastructure and each families capability.
That would be the New Madrid earthquake zone, as a local firefighter we have seen training scenerios showing the damage that would be done to the infrastructure. And in a worse case scenerio what we could expect as far as damage estimates and the time it would take before aid would reach many within the zone area.
Of course living as close as we do to Camp Atterbury and Fore Knox we would have military running over one another but I for one still feel that my families safety and well being is my responsibility.

[agentl074]

Originally Posted by JBrockman

Yellowstone uncorking its fury on us is definately a possibility and one that would test each one and our ability to survive. But we have another natural disaster here in our area that if it were to occur would put a strain on our infrastructure and each families capability.
That would be the New Madrid earthquake zone, as a local firefighter we have seen training scenarios showing the damage that would be done to the infrastructure. And in a worse case scenario what we could expect as far as damage estimates and the time it would take before aid would reach many within the zone area.
Of course living as close as we do to Camp Atterbury and Fore Knox we would have military running over one another but I for one still feel that my families safety and well being is my responsibility.

There is a fault line somewhere around here....

[flagtag]

Type in New Madrid Fault line in the search area and it will take you to a list of links. Click on the second one to see a map.

It hits the south/eastern edge of IL and pretty much follows the Mississippi river south.

[Warwagon]

I saw this on the Drudge Report the other day.

http://www.seis.utah.edu/req2webdir/recenteqs/Maps/Yellowstone.html

[Justus]

I guess it depends on how bad it pops.
We were just talking about this last night.

Could be as bad as a lack of sunlight and poor harvest throughout the grain belt.
When MT St Helens erupted IIRC, the area immediately around there had some severe problems but
it wasn't that bad around here.

You might take comfort in knowing that these recent quakes aren't that unusual.

Yellowstone Recent Status Report, Updates, and Information Releases

[Marc]

yea it Yellowstone has a 65mile wide caldera and i saw something on the discovery channel that is starting to bulge. they looked at a lake and the water had ran 2 ft up shore on one side of the lake and on the other the water had subsided exposing what was part of the lake bed. 2 feet may not be much but its enough to let me know there is something going on there.