Yellowstone is scary even for Calgary but it's doesn't appear to be overdue as people claim, Yellowstone has experienced three super eruptions at 2.08, 1.3, and 0.631 million years ago, math says we have almost 100,000 years to plan our demise.
The Cascadia subduction zone is in their window for a big quake and that has a good chance to greatly affect Yellowstone and its time-line.
And if the big one was to go off I'd be more concerned about Mt . Baker tbh. Not a super volcano but the potential for a triple whammy is crazy. Big quake, massive tsunami and a big eruption in the same spot.
The area around St. Helens is still a wasteland. It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire, ash, and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume.
Not mentioned there, but plate tectonics are also a major driver of biodiversity and evolution. If it wasn't a geologically active planet, life may have never developed or survived.
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It was a class 5 on the Volcanic explosivity Index. To put that in perspective, in our life time we've only seen one bigger which was Krakatoain 1883 and Pinatua in 1993, and those were class 6
You're pretty good at computers for someone who's at least 137 years old.
The southernmost Cascade volvano is Lassen Peak, and it's a great park to visit if you're in northern California. I took my 10 year old son there last summer and he had an amazing time climbing the volcano. I'd recommend it, it's not busy at all.
I saw many Volcanos in the Andes and climbed to the summit of Volcan Villarica in Chile. The guide tied a rope around our waist and held on so we could lean over the crater and see the magma.
Chimoborazo in Ecuador is interesting. At 6,200 m it is not the highest peak above sea level, but due to the bulge in the middle of the earth, the peak is actually the furthest point from the center of the earth, and closest to the Sun.
I saw many Volcanos in the Andes and climbed to the summit of Volcan Villarica in Chile. The guide tied a rope around our waist and held on so we could lean over the crater and see the magma.
I bet that was incredible but I don't think I could do that without having a panic attack.
We lived about 50 miles south and west of Mt St Helens when I was a toddler. Apparently I've been up there, according to my mother, prior to us moving to Canada late in 1971, but I have zero recollection of it. I remember thinking at the time of the eruption, what a choking mess it would have been, to have still been living in the area when it went off. My dad had some fond memories of the area.
