Did anyone watch Supervolcanoe last night?
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Did anyone watch Supervolcanoe last night?
It aired on Discovery at 8pm EDT and again at 11 EDT on 4/10. It was about a super eruption happnening today at Yellowstone. I thought it was done very well, lacked alot of cheesiness, lol. The only thing I wish it would have dealt with more is what would happen in the years following the eruption at Yellowstone. It didn't go into much detail about that and from what I've read, that's what will be the most devestating i.e. famine, disease, possible ice-age, etc.
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AirmaN wrote:I fell asleep with an hour left! Please say some spoilers... was there super eruption? If yes, what was it like? I can't believe I fell asleep...I was into that movie...
"LOL!" Me TOO........it was JUST getting good when I felt an elbow in the side, I was SNORING too loud I guess
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Being the disaster movie fan that I am, I watched it. I thought it was good, but like Sunny, wish they would do a sequel on the follow up years and what it would be like. I thought the part about the "walk to live" was kind of unrealistic. The two scientists and the military guy had been in that underground installation for days with it raining ash like the heaviest snowfall you have ever seen, but yet when they started to walk, the ash didn't even come up to their shins. That ash would have been extremely deep.
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depotoo wrote:really enjoyed it - they said it was not the super eruption if i recall - since it didn't last as long as they were afraid. was still a great eruption though - those that saw it all - did i get that right?
anyway - good movie - scary as all get out!
"Scary as all get out" Hmm..It was pretty good, I thought..
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Derek Ortt
it was the super eruption (VE-8)
Did a good job describing the effects just prior to the eruption due to the panic and the like and did an outstanding job of showing where and how severe the effects would be.
Was also good afterwards when the scientists indicated that Yellowstone does not only have super eruptions, but also lava flows, as well as pyroclastic flows, typical of normal volcanoes
Did a good job describing the effects just prior to the eruption due to the panic and the like and did an outstanding job of showing where and how severe the effects would be.
Was also good afterwards when the scientists indicated that Yellowstone does not only have super eruptions, but also lava flows, as well as pyroclastic flows, typical of normal volcanoes
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thanks for clarifying derek - i knew that there had been several eruptions - just didn't realize it was considered the super one. so it was a super reuption taht didn't last as long as they had anticipated, right? i just remember when they said it was sinking it was good news as that meant the lava was through flowing, i believe?
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weatherlover427
I do volcanology research as well, and I have been tracking yellowstone for some years now online, and through graphs, and webcams, gps, etc. I do believe this movie was a great interpretation of the real super eruption however not like they think. The eruption will most likely not blast through alot of vents like they showed until the caldara was completely outlined. Looks to be maybe 2 small blasts, and then the major blast of the whole caldara. There is evidence that the volcano is waking up even more as it is actually breathing. In the movie it was a super eruption classed VEI-8 with all the vents together, not just one big blast like it probably will be. In the movie they said the ground was sinking and that was good news. The reason for the ground sinking was simple. You have a big chamber of magma below that caldara, or crater like object. The vents open up, and the magma, and pressure, gases get released. Its so fast that the magma is drained out of that chamber. It becomes hollow, and after the pressure releases, the ground isnt sitting on the chamber anymore. Its actually sitting on where it use to be, which is now hollow inside. The ground needs to be on top of something, and sinks down into the chamber to fill in that hollow spot, and forms another caldara, ending the eruption process, and starting all over again, waiting for another magma chamber to pool underneath from the hotspot in the earth. A hotspot is an area where the molten rock can flow up into the crust, and pool out there. Not everywhere has this. Hawaii has a hotspot, and thats why the volcanoes there are ALWAYS active.
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Derek Ortt
depo,
what I was saying was that not all of Yellowstone's eruptions are super eruptions. The last eruption was about 70,000 years ago and it was just a lava flow. So it is possible that the next time it erupts, it may "only" be like Mt ST Helen's or Mt Pinotubo. However, we must prepare for a super eruption.
As an aside, we can kiss our civil liberties good bye if Yellowstone were to have a super eruption due to the threat to our species as a whole. The movie did a great job of indicating just how much the world would change after Yellowstone, including a posisble new calender with Yellowstone as the demarcation point (which would also make some sense as that would show just how different the world became with that one event)
what I was saying was that not all of Yellowstone's eruptions are super eruptions. The last eruption was about 70,000 years ago and it was just a lava flow. So it is possible that the next time it erupts, it may "only" be like Mt ST Helen's or Mt Pinotubo. However, we must prepare for a super eruption.
As an aside, we can kiss our civil liberties good bye if Yellowstone were to have a super eruption due to the threat to our species as a whole. The movie did a great job of indicating just how much the world would change after Yellowstone, including a posisble new calender with Yellowstone as the demarcation point (which would also make some sense as that would show just how different the world became with that one event)
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Derek Ortt
something els I have been thinking. In the very recent past, we have just started to see these types of shows on TV, when previously, the topic was never discussed. Could this be the government educating us on this subject because there is evidence that one may erupt, but to avoid complete chaos, they are not yet telling us this until there is a definitive answer (most likely being at Toba due to the recent quakes). It just seems strange to me that only within the last 4-6 months has this been presented in such quantity on TV (not just last night's movie, but also many documentaries on Doscovery and National Geographic channel as well)
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