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The supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park has once again become a point of focus for doomsdayers after scientists picked up some ominous earthquake activity this month.
Scientists from the University of Utah, responsible for monitoring the supervolcano in Wyoming, said a "swarm" of 464 earthquakes began on June 12 – the biggest being a 4.5 magnitude shudder on June 15.
"The epicenter of the shock was located in Yellowstone National Park, eight miles north-northeast of the town of West Yellowstone, Montana," UU scientists said in a statement. "The earthquake was reported felt in the towns of West Yellowstone and Gardiner, Montana, in Yellowstone National Park, and elsewhere in the surrounding region."
The 4.5 magnitude quake is the largest to hit the supervolcano since a 4.8 quake struck in March 2014. Scientists noted that the "energetic sequence of earthquakes... included approximately 30 earthquakes of magnitude 2 and larger and four earthquakes of magnitude 3 and larger, including today's magnitude 4.5 event."
They added: "This is the highest number of earthquakes at Yellowstone within a single week in the past five years, but is fewer than weekly counts during similar earthquakes swarms in 2002, 2004, 2008 and 2010."
Subbed because volcanoes are cool not because I'm askeert Yellowstone is going to blow any minute now.
Source: https://www.rt.com/viral/393331-yellowstone-swarm-earthquakes-supervolcano/
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 26 2017, @06:08PM (1 child)
As long as the world has girls and cameras that will pretty much take care of itself. Actually there are a lot of enjoyable Reddit subreddits about that general topic..
Sometimes I wonder if there's only a finite amount of that content, and once enough is generated, its done. I mean, they're not investing much money in plots or dialogue or setting. And much like the existence of Hollywood as a going financial concern means they aren't shutting down anytime soon, it also doesn't obligate anyone to pay attention, so most people don't, and a world without new pr0n might be "OK". The concept of a "pr0n recession" is interesting. In a digital world of storage can't they "pull a Disney" and stop production of 80% of their IP and then advertise special directors cuts after 20 years in a new-re-release at a higher price and new media format of course? You could sell some pr0n for centuries or millennia using that distribution strategy. Probably I'm wasting my talents and should have gone into pr0n. Its more respectable than working in IT anyway. Imagine ad copy in 2030... "You loved them in girls gone wild back in the '90s, now see our 3D 4K directors cut special re-release only in production for one year of Wild Girls 3 buy it now today!"
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday June 26 2017, @06:18PM
I think they get one more go-around to re-record everything in 4K.
After that, they need to figure out going around bandwidth caps, to VR you your own walk-around live orgy, with force-feedback...
All that tech, and the average hotel porn viewing is under 7 minutes...
Back on topic: the Earth won't lose much if we get wiped out by that volcano.