Tuesday, April 14, 2015

The Warm Pacific Blob

As you may have heard, a portion of the Pacific Ocean is much hotter than expected, and no one knows why:



Although the two are probably not related, this is about the size of previous eruptions of the Yellowstone supervolcano:




Should this Pacific Ocean anomaly be related to subsurface temperature, and should this lead to an eruption, I would say this area of the world will become a real mess for a long time.

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