I'd take that source with a boat load of salt. If the whole calderra went up, yes it would be very very serious with worldwide effects but E.L.E. is borderline mass hysteria! The volcano blew up before and guess what, much less of a die off than 65M years ago when Mexico was pummelled by a meteor. Secondly, the whole calderra doesn't alway blow. There have been many documented mini-blows and lava flows that are a lot more common than the big one. The number of small quakes is an indicator of activity. They had a flurry of small quakes in the caldera a few years ago and then quiet since then. You can go to the website and check into the monitoring activities yourself. If the underlying lava pool did burst you would see higher quake activity and a growing measuable lift to the caldera. The only relevant thing that has happened since that burst of activity a few years ago is that they have mapped the volume of the lava bubble more accurately and it appears to be much larger than first calculated.

Everything else - is just tabloid fodder.

Spoken like someone with a decent head on their shoulders. I like your attitude.

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This is a real eye opening thread,not so much because it alerts anyone to a likely hazard, but because it shows just how much silliness and raw misinformation, unintentioned or otherwise, exist today. Following some of the lined threads is mind blowing.

I think Wildman has the right attitude toward this stuff.