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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

Boy I sure feel better, I'm just out of the "potential range of the 
total destruction"  down at the bottom of the page <g>.
<shrug>
Then again after my first winter in the upper mid-west I realized 
that a 'real' winter is a regularly scheduled natural disaster....

Rob
becida AT comcast.net
Western WA state


At  1/4/2009 12:37 PM,Leslie wrote:
> Yikes - check out this link.... 
> http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://people.uwec.edu/ERICKSKM/yellowstone-volcano.gif&imgrefurl=http://people.uwec.edu/ERICKSKM/hazards.html&h=632&w=725&sz=40&tbnid=SJuAHEU45vtqRM::&tbnh=122&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dyellowstone%2Bvolcano&usg=__i1I1-E3EVcOShXnN82eTDHKsupk=&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=5&ct=image&cd=1
>
> (not current on the seismic act, but interesting....)
>
> --- On Sun, 1/4/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Yellowstone heating up
> To: cayadopi AT yahoo.com
> Date: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 1:38 PM
>
> that is nothing in geological time, but yes, the plates did 
> shift.  Part of the
> system is under Idaho.  The caldera is huge...even if the plates 
> moved 50 miles,
> it would still be over the caldera.
>
> Leslie wrote:
> > Yellowstone supervolcano -  642,000 years ago.
> >  Wouldn't the tectonic plates have moved a fair bit since that time?
> I.E. the way the plates have shifted forming a string of islands spreading out
> from one particular volcanic "hot spot".
> >