Yellowstone "Supervolcano"

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By Brenda Bassett & The Associated Press

Story Published: Dec 26, 2009 at 7:30 PM MDT

Story Updated: Dec 28, 2009 at 12:06 PM MDT

BILLINGS - Yellowstone National Park will see some changes in the next two years.

Soon the Yellowstone "supervolcano" will be among the best-monitored hot spots in the world. New installation of earthquake monitoring equipment will be implemented into the park over the next two years complete with ten new seismic monitoring stations.

One feature includes an alarm system that small seismic events to be directly posted to the Internet so people can follow the action. The U.S. Geological Survey, Yellowstone National Park and the University of Utah will jointly share the information.

A portion of the funding will come from recovery act money given to the observatory.

Sunday, Jan 31 at 2:53 PM geery pissen wrote ...

The volcano is already listed in orange on numerous volcano monitoring sites worldwide. DDDDDDDDDDDOOOOOOOMMMMMM.

Monday, Jan 4 at 3:36 PM KMS wrote ...

The point your missing Anonymous, is that this money spent on monitoring the supervolcano could go to MUCH more important things. Like feeding the homeless, or creating jobs for Americans, not wasting it on a pointless endeavour.

Monday, Jan 4 at 3:01 PM Anonymous wrote ...

Then spending the money on monitoring isn't really a waste after all is it? It won't matter whether the volcano was monitored or not after it goes off so how could it be a "waste" if everything is wiped out anyway? If that volcano will be our extinction then there is really is no way to spend the money that isn't equally as "wastefull" as monitoring the volcano and all of Bobby Jindal's smugness about volcano monitoring will have been for nothing.

Monday, Jan 4 at 12:02 PM KMS wrote ...

This is a waste of money. When it goes, we here in Billings will be lucky- we'll see a bright flash, and then were gone. The rest of the world will suffer through an ELE (Extinction Level Event) and then more then likely, die from total loss of any and all food sources as the world is plunged into a 100 year winter, just like last time.

Sunday, Dec 27 at 9:30 AM Deal with it wrote ...

Why worry about it, go see the beauties of the park while you can, because it isn't going to matter if you are at ground zero or here in Billings, you are dust no matter what. So, enjoy while you can.

Sunday, Dec 27 at 1:31 AM Anonymous wrote ...

WHEN I GOES,,, IT WILL TAKE THE HOLD WORLD OUT.....

Saturday, Dec 26 at 8:31 PM Covin Prohn wrote ...

Fantastic, Now I can see first hand when the eruption takes me out....that would be nice...

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