{"id":291,"date":"2003-09-12T20:27:48","date_gmt":"2003-09-12T23:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=291"},"modified":"2003-09-12T20:27:48","modified_gmt":"2003-09-12T23:27:48","slug":"volcano-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Volcano thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>R<\/span>eport over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinejournal.com\/Special_Reports\/091103Gurney\/091103gurney.html\">Online Journal<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/28263\">MetaFilter<\/a>): apparantly there&#8217;s something brewing underneath the Yellowstone park: geologists suspect that a masssive supervolcano is lurking and possibly about to erupt. The vulcano is long overdue too: its regular eruption cycle is 600,000 years. It has already  been 640,000 years since the last erruption.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Pessimistic stories too. Apparantly the situation is pretty critical:\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;There&#8217;s nowhere to hide from the effects of a supervolcano. One day &#8211; perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in fifty years, perhaps in 10,000 &#8211; it will erupt; once again wreaking devastation across the North American continent and bringing the bitter cold of Volcanic Winter to Planet Earth. Mankind may become extinct.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>The last supervolcano eruption was 74,000 years ago, when the <a href=\"http:\/\/volcano.und.nodak.edu\/vwdocs\/vw_hyperexchange\/toba.html\">Toba<\/a> blasted that much ashes and sulphur in the air that the temperature on Earth plummeted drastically, reducing population to a few thousand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report over at the Online Journal (via MetaFilter): apparantly there&#8217;s something brewing underneath the Yellowstone park: geologists suspect that a masssive supervolcano is lurking and possibly about to erupt. The vulcano is long overdue too: its regular eruption cycle is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=291\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}