Yellowstone Eruption?

A recent splurge of small earthquakes has caused people to believe that there is going to be a major eruption of volcano that is located beneath one of Yellowstone national park's geysers. The park alert level is still normal, but non-official websites are spreading warnings. "In the ancient past, the volcano has erupted 1,000 times more powerfully than the 1980 blast at Mount St. Helens, hurling ash as far away as Louisiana. No eruption that big has occurred while humans have walked the earth, however, and geologists say even a minor lava flow is extremely unlikely any time soon."

Nonetheless some observers are warning the public of an imminent catastrophe.

WARNINGS:

"To those of us who have been following these events, we know that something is brewing, especially considering that Yellowstone is over 40,000 years overdue for a major eruption," warned a posting on the online disaster forum Armageddononline.org.

Another Web site contained a page entitled "Yellowstone Warning" that encouraged "everyone to leave Yellowstone National Park for 100 miles around the volcano caldera because of the danger in poisonous gasses that can escape from the hundreds of recent earthquakes."

Source: 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28591072/