Super Volcano?

JasonB · Apr 3, 2005

Quake site faces super volcano
01/04/2005 08:22 - (SA)

Sydney - As Indonesians struggled to recover from the second deadly earthquake to strike them in three months, an Australian expert warned on Friday that the country faced the prospect of a "super volcano" eruption that would dwarf all previous catastrophes.

Professor Ray Cas of Monash University's School of Geosciences said the world's biggest super volcano was Lake Toba, on Indonesia's island of Sumatra, site of both the recent massive earthquakes.

Cas told Australian media on Friday that Toba sits on a faultline running down the middle of Sumatra - just where some seismologists say a third earthquake might strike following the 9.0 magnitude quake on December 26 and Monday's 8.7 temblor.

Those quakes occurred along faultlines running just off Sumatra's west coast and created seismological stresses which could hasten an eruption.

Cas said Toba last erupted 73&nbbsp;000 years ago in an event so massive that it altered the entire world's climate.

"The eruption released 1 000 cubic kilometres of ash and rock debris into the atmosphere, much of it as fine ash which blocked out solar radiation, kicking the world back into an ice age," he said.

'Will definitely erupt'

The scientist said super volcanos represented the greatest potential hazard on earth, "the only greater threat being an asteroid impact from space".

"A super volcano will definitely erupt," he said.

"It could be in a few, 50 or another 1000 years but sooner or later one is going to go off."

Other super volcanos are found in Italy, South America, the United States and New Zealand - where Mount Taupo could be ready for eruption.

"It has a big eruption every 2 000 years, and it last erupted about 2 00 years ago," Cas said.

The potential death toll from a super volcano eruption "could reach the hundreds of thousands to millions and there are serious implications on climate, weather and viability of food production", Cas said.

"The big problem is a lot of the volcanoes that potentially could erupt are perhaps not monitored to the degree that they should be, and of course we learnt that lesson from the Boxing Day tsunami disaster," he said.
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SOURCE: http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/Ne...1683767,00.html

FreeYourMind · Apr 3, 2005

I hope it will definitly not explode.

LornVourkolakas · Apr 3, 2005

Originally posted by JasonB@Apr 3 2005, 03:03 PM

Quake site faces super volcano
01/04/2005 08:22 - (SA)

Sydney - As Indonesians struggled to recover from the second deadly earthquake to strike them in three months, an Australian expert warned on Friday that the country faced the prospect of a "super volcano" eruption that would dwarf all previous catastrophes.

Professor Ray Cas of Monash University's School of Geosciences said the world's biggest super volcano was Lake Toba, on Indonesia's island of Sumatra, site of both the recent massive earthquakes.

Cas told Australian media on Friday that Toba sits on a faultline running down the middle of Sumatra - just where some seismologists say a third earthquake might strike following the 9.0 magnitude quake on December 26 and Monday's 8.7 temblor.

Those quakes occurred along faultlines running just off Sumatra's west coast and created seismological stresses which could hasten an eruption.

Cas said Toba last erupted 73&nbbsp;000 years ago in an event so massive that it altered the entire world's climate.

"The eruption released 1 000 cubic kilometres of ash and rock debris into the atmosphere, much of it as fine ash which blocked out solar radiation, kicking the world back into an ice age," he said.

'Will definitely erupt'

The scientist said super volcanos represented the greatest potential hazard on earth, "the only greater threat being an asteroid impact from space".

"A super volcano will definitely erupt," he said.

"It could be in a few, 50 or another 1000 years but sooner or later one is going to go off."

Other super volcanos are found in Italy, South America, the United States and New Zealand - where Mount Taupo could be ready for eruption.

"It has a big eruption every 2 000 years, and it last erupted about 2 00 years ago," Cas said.

The potential death toll from a super volcano eruption "could reach the hundreds of thousands to millions and there are serious implications on climate, weather and viability of food production", Cas said.

"The big problem is a lot of the volcanoes that potentially could erupt are perhaps not monitored to the degree that they should be, and of course we learnt that lesson from the Boxing Day tsunami disaster," he said.
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SOURCE: http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/Ne...1683767,00.html
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Man, it's just one disaster after the next. I can't help but feel pity for that place.

hYbr1d_tH30rY_723 · Apr 3, 2005

thats some scary stuff right there ... I really hope something like this doesnt happen ... Its a real threat though... and if millions are going to die than we better be preparing ourselves right now ...

Jon[athan] · Apr 4, 2005

if that shit went off...it would be a disaster WHERE ever you are on the earth...

Ronin · Apr 4, 2005

yes, i would scream like a girl, while crapping myself..

lp_sk8ergurl · Apr 4, 2005

First the tsunami, then the earthquake and now this.

What's next?

Ronin · Apr 4, 2005

robot martha stewards with crafts from hell

ScrewOff · Apr 4, 2005

Originally posted by JasonB@Apr 3 2005, 03:03 PM

Quake site faces super volcano
01/04/2005 08:22 - (SA)

a "super volcano" eruption that would dwarf all previous catastrophes.
massive erathquakes

9.0 magnitude quake

hasten an eruption.

so massive that it altered the entire world's climate.

"The eruption released 1 000 cubic kilometres of ash and rock debris into the atmosphere, much of it as fine ash which blocked out solar radiation, kicking the world back into an ice age," he said.

'Will definitely erupt'

"the only greater threat being an asteroid impact from space".

"A super volcano will definitely erupt," he said.

"It could be in a few, 50 or another 1000 years but sooner or later one is going to go off."

"It has a big eruption every 2 000 years, and it last erupted about 2 00 years ago," Cas said.

The potential death toll from a super volcano eruption "could reach the hundreds of thousands to millions and there are serious implications on climate, weather and viability of food production"

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sounds like great fun to me.

minusxerø · Apr 4, 2005

Originally posted by FreeYourMind@Apr 3 2005, 09:17 AM

I hope it will definitly not explode.
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Speak for yourself.

Lisa · Apr 4, 2005

Originally posted by JasonB@Apr 4 2005, 01:03 AM

The potential death toll from a super volcano eruption "could reach the hundreds of thousands to millions and there are serious implications on climate, weather and viability of food production", Cas said.

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Creep · Apr 4, 2005

I didn't even know super volcanoes existed until now. I really hope the media is exaggerating this and trying to get ratings I doubt it will happen in our lifetime.

User Name · Apr 4, 2005

...I thought I was in Random Thoughts for a second...

But, wow. I knew that the disasters were going to get worse this year, but this is overdoing it. Poor Indonesia.

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