• Question: When do you think the earths super eruption from Yellowstone national park will happen & will the earth blow up blow up anytime soon?

    Asked by meadhbh17 to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean, Viv on 16 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Lena Ciric

      Lena Ciric answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      We don’t know when this might happen. If and when it does, it’ll cause a lot of destruction, but it won’t blow up the Earth. Phew!

    • Photo: Sean Murphy

      Sean Murphy answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      There is no evidence that a catastrophic eruption at Yellowstone National Park (YNP) is imminent. Current geologic activity at Yellowstone has remained relatively constant since earth scientists first started monitoring some 30 years ago. Though another caldera-forming eruption is theoretically possible, it is very unlikely to occur in the next thousand or even 10,000 years.

    • Photo: Laura Waters

      Laura Waters answered on 16 Mar 2012:

      I watched a tv show where they implied it would happen any day now. I think the media sometimes makes things seem more dramatic than they actually are! You never know though, it could happen. Poor Yogi.

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