Trust us: there is nothing the businesspeople of the Town of Mammoth Lakes, California hate more than discussions of earthquakes and super-volcanos. But that hasn’t stopped Discovery.com from bringing it all up again in a story titled: California Supervolcano Has Split Personality.
They say there is some good news and some bad.
The good news is that the Long Valley caldera, like her big sister Yellowstone in Wyoming, is not getting ready to super-erupt and again cover half of North America in ash. The bad news is that when Long Valley does someday get hot and bothered again, it may prove to be surprisingly bi-polar.
In other words it could blast and ooze, according to Stanford University geologist Gail Mahood. Mahood’s new research on the Mammoth supervolcano has not changed any future activity projections, though. That stat remains at “less than a one percent chance that it’s going to blow in any given year.”
[Link: Discovery.com]
