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Subject WTF? Risk of disastrous-for-mankind simultaneous eruption of volcanoes Aso, Ira and Yellowstone has increased much in recent hours

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from the article:

[i][color=brown]"The long recurrence time is an indication of the potential. Statistically, the longer the time between repeat eruptions, the larger the eruption can be. Statistics of known eruptions indicate that for eruptions of size VEI7.5, the repeat period is 40,000 yr. Thus, an eruption larger than this is theoretically possible in Aso."[/color][/i]

so it's 50.000 years overdue for a large eruption..

[color=brown][i]"There has never been a VEI 7-sized eruption in a modern, developed country. The world has gone through a quiet spell, volcano-wise, over the past 150 years. We do not know how resilient our society is to a Tambora-sized eruption. That one will happen is certain. Japan is a likely place where this will occur, because of its sheer number of volcanoes. [b]Mt Aso is a particular worry because of its history, location, and magma reservoir that one publication describes as ‘charged’.[/b]"[/i][/color]

oh sh*t :-/

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Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The risk of the disastrous-for-mankind simultaneous eruption of Aso, Ira and Yellowstone has increased sharply in the last few hours.

Eruption of volcano Aso on the Kyushu island started at 1:50 on 8 October (Japan time). The Japanese Meteorological Agency assigned the third level of danger on a 5-point scale to the eruption. The column of ash has already climbed by several thousand meters up. Within the next few hours there are possible heavy ashfalls in the range of 30 km to the north-east from the volcano, as well as moderate and light ashfalls at distance of up to 250 km from the crater. Danger zone has been already established within radius of 2 km from the crater.

If the eruption intensifies, Japan may be completely destroyed. Also, there is a real risk that the Aso is able to trigger an eruption of another volcano in Kyushu - Caldera Ira. In this case, explosion of the Yellowstone volcano in the United States is almost inevitable.

In any case, the European Seismological Center and U.S. scientists stated on the basis of their research about a high probability that the eruption of Ira will also trigger the explosion in the Yellowstone Caldera.

In the case of such a triple blast the ash will cover Japan, the U.S. and Canada and the particles released into the stratosphere will cover the sun from the earth, provoking the so-called "nuclear winter".

what the hell is this?

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