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Watched this last night on BBC 1(its was ok),sort of based on a true story but a incident that hasnt happened yet(well 40,000 years over due).

Not many people know this but there a sort of faultline of the coast of Maderia(not far from Portugal but its in the sea),thats ready to erupt and go(BBC 2 covered this with there programme Horizon)Explaining most of europe coastlines and east part of America would get caught this if it ever became a big one).

Its a bit like what happened in Asia earthquake and followed by a tunsumi.

i be watching the 2nd part tonight,

Carl (Kriss kross)

p.s The British actor who in it,(the bald guy as one of the scientists,i think he scottish,its bugging me but i seen him in a british film and cant think what film i've seen him in

Well, Horizon likes theses doom&gloom stories, and the programme makers tend to present as near certainty what is at best a faint possibility. For example, they had this programme about a possible super-ice-age in which the Earth gets completely frozen over and takes 100s of millions of years to recover from that.

Compared to this, the supervolcano thing is quite likely. Last time it happened (Toba) was probably the event that created the human race, because only about a 1000 of our ancestors survived, probably the cleverer and more adaptable ape-men.

They wouldn't cancel each other out. The dust from the super volcano would block incoming solar radiation and create a 10-year winter.

ghostdog wrote:

> So why don't we have a super ice age and a super volcano
> erruption at the same time to cancel each other out, like a yin
> and yang kind of thing?

In the short term the supervolcano eruption would accellerate the super ice age, because as Alec ponted out the dust would lower temperatures for a while.

Funnily enough, in the long run the super ice age is defeated by volcanos, or rather: the global warming caused by the gases released by these eruptions accummulates. At least that was the theory put to us in that Horizon programme; they claimed that Earth had once experienced a super-ice-age, only microbes survived it, and it only ended because global warming eventually melted the ice.

this is confusing, If this were to happen how would it affect my Mortgage payments? I mean does home insurance cover this sort of thing?

just wondering.

"p.s The British actor who in it,(the bald guy as one of the scientists,i think he scottish,its bugging me but i seen him in a british film and cant think what film i've seen him in"

Dont know the guys name but he played Billy's dad in the film "Billy Elliot"

It's all very well for you guys. Here (Wellinton NZ) we've all just had a leaflet from Wellinton Region Emergency Management Group....
WHEN A TSUNAMI THREATENS, WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?

Mart

errr ...put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye ?

but seriously...what do they say you should do?