Yellowstone Volcano

Jacques

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In that session, the C's answered Laura's question about the Yellowstone supervolcano:

Laura said:
Session Date: July 6th 2010

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Q: (Andromeda) Can I ask about Yellowstone? Is any of this "movement" is going to wake it up and cause a major eruption soon? Or is that too predictiony?

A: That is more likely than a cataclysmic ocean floor explosion of methane.

Q: (L) Okay, so in the next 5 years, what is the percentage of probability of the supervolcano at Yellowstone going off?

A: 58%

Q: (L) 58, is that it?

A: Yes.

Q: (L) 58 percent. Well, that's more than half, but still kind of 50/50 in the next five years.

Since the 5 years are passed and since it seems that there are quite a lot of activities right now in the Yellowstone Park, do you think that it could be a good question to ask the C's a refresh of that previous answer for the next 5 years(or less). Something like the original question of 2010:

Okay, so in the next 5 years, what is the percentage of probability of the supervolcano at Yellowstone going off?
 
And if the question is asked and if the C's say that the probability is higher than last time in 2010, could it be possible to add another question like:

How much magma will be ejected if there is an eruption?

See below a graph showing a comparison of eruption volumes:

supervolcano-eruptions-usgs-550.jpg
 
Just for the record, an article has been published on SOTT recently about that volcano

https://www.sott.net/article/377323-Yellowstone-super-volcano-under-strain-from-magma-chamber-pressure
 
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