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(135,425 posts)People on West Coast would do well to refresh their earthquake supplies.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)bananas
(27,509 posts)GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)The Siberian Traps form a large region of volcanic rock, known as a large igneous province, in Siberia, Russia. The massive eruptive event which formed the traps, one of the largest known volcanic events of the last 500 million years of Earth's geological history, continued for a million years and spanned the PermianTriassic boundary, about 251 to 250 million years ago.
The term "traps" is derived from the Swedish word for stairs (trappa, or sometimes trapp), referring to the step-like hills forming the landscape of the region, which is typical of flood basalts.
Vast volumes of basaltic lava paved over a large expanse of primeval Siberia in a flood basalt event. Today the area covered is about 2 million km2roughly equal to western Europe in land areaand estimates of the original coverage are as high as 7 million km2. The original volume of lava is estimated to range from 1 million to 4 million km3.
That would certainly put a little glitch in the human destruction of the biosphere.
kristopher
(29,798 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)Stock up on extra food and water, keep the vehicle you would use to evacuate full of fuel, etc, etc.
Be ready by March 2nd.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)I guess it's past time for me to come right out and admit that I am looking for events of a scale that will stop the juggernaut of humanity from devouring the planet. A 1200-mile-long volcanic rift up the west coast, with the attendant possibilities of a basalt flood and the triggering of Yellowstone seems like a dream come true.
I've been looking for the hard stop for a while now. I've seen the possibility in peak oil, climate change, food supply reductions, the death of the oceans, economic collapse and even nuclear war. Now tectonic forces are added to the basket of near-term possibilities.
If life is to continue on this planet, humanity has to stop. If I was a religious man I would be saying, "Lord, hear my prayer."