> > Hmm, yes...terrible news, except that Horizon seems solely to come up with more and more ways for everyone on the planet to die. If I remember rightly, within the next few years not only will a supervolcano erupt in Yellowstone Park, wiping out most of America (does Horizon have some sort of a vendetta against America?)
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> Yeah, I remember watching something about this supervolcano underneath Yellowstone on a Discovery program at one in the morning (shut up, I couldn't sleep that night). About every 600,000 years or so, a huge packet of lava contained under the area where Yellowstone is located explodes. This leaves a huge impact crater. This has happened three times in the past and the last one errupted, yep, you guess it, 600,000 years ago. So scientists predict that within the next 200,000 years, Yellowstone with explode again.

If we get an undersea supervolcano, current models predict a 'hypercane': huge, stationary, long-lasting, and capable of flooding vast and distant parts of the earth simultaneously.

And scientists are expecting a magnitude 10 earthquake along the Pacific Northwest coast sometime in the next hundred years.

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