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What Would An Eruption Of The Yellowstone Supervolcano Look Like?
Freedom Outpost ^ | April 1, 2014 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 04/02/2014 5:50:02 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

On Sunday, the worst earthquake in about 30 years rattled the Yellowstone supervolcano. Overall, there have been at least 25 significant earthquakes at Yellowstone National Park since Thursday, but it is the 4.8 earthquake that has many observers extremely worried. Could such a large earthquake be a sign that the Yellowstone supervolcano is starting to roar to life after all this time? And if it does erupt, what would that mean for the rest of the country? As you will see below, a full-blown eruption at Yellowstone would be absolutely catastrophic. It is estimated that such an eruption could dump a 10 foot deep layer of volcanic ash up to 1,000 miles away and render much of the nation uninhabitable for years to come. In essence, it would instantly bring the United States to its knees.

It is true that it is normal for Yellowstone to experience up to 3,000 earthquakes a year. But most of those earthquakes are extremely small and nothing to worry about.

But the 4.8 earthquake that struck on Sunday is definitely raising eyebrows – especially considering what else has been going on at Yellowstone lately.

For example, the scientists that monitor Yellowstone are telling us that the area where the earthquake was centered has been experiencing “ground uplift” in recent months…

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KEYWORDS: booboo; boring; catastrophe; catastrophism; disaster; earthquake; earthquakes; jellystone; supervolcano; volcano; yellowstone; yellowstonecaldera; yogibear
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Anyone not viewing it from space yet close enough to see and/or photograph it won’t survive the experience. The like has not been seen in recorded human history. Krakatoa, Santorini, Taupo, Mt. St, Helens, all were firecrackers in comparison with a super volcanic eruption.


61 posted on 04/02/2014 7:25:43 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: cripplecreek

I believe they’ve found a pattern with the Yellowstone Eruptions, doing so every half million years. Given it last blew at around six hundred thousand years ago, considering the pattern, one could reasonably assume it’s ‘overdue’.


62 posted on 04/02/2014 7:25:45 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: DuncanWaring
On the bright side, we wouldn't have to listen to The Won and his minions bloviating-on incessantly.

That's what the 'mute' button is for...

63 posted on 04/02/2014 7:27:04 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: blueunicorn6

*ouch*


64 posted on 04/02/2014 7:28:05 AM PDT by null and void ( Everything evil in the world may not be Islamic but everything Islamic is evil.)
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To: KoRn

Or it may never erupt again.


65 posted on 04/02/2014 7:30:28 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek

This is very true.


66 posted on 04/02/2014 7:32:33 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
It would look like this:


67 posted on 04/02/2014 7:33:41 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Safrguns

Sure, and that is why there isn’t anything like this under China and other places where they have been for worse for generations?

OK


68 posted on 04/02/2014 7:34:42 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Too bad we can’t move Yellowstone closer to D.C. or California :- )


69 posted on 04/02/2014 7:42:36 AM PDT by Lake Living
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To: Fiji Hill

“...as Russia, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia rise to dominate world politics...”

They will not escape either, nor will those south of the Equator. There will be no ‘world politics’, just a handful of people in isolated pockets struggling to find something to eat, mostly dying miserable deaths as they inhale the rock dust, ripping their lungs to shreds, shivering in temperatures as much as 38 deg F cooler, coughing to death in the years long dark.

It is difficult to contemplate just how much rock dust 240-600 cubic miles (Yellowstone historic range) creates ... and then there are all the millions of tons of aerosols - like sulfur dioxide, etc. - all shoved over 21 miles into the stratosphere.

If Mt. St. Helens was a one (with 0.048 cubic miles of ash), and Toba was a 2800 (191 cubic miles of ash), this one could be bigger still.


70 posted on 04/02/2014 7:45:30 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: onedoug

Thank you! The borders of NC in that map roughly approximate what the real colony of North Carolina’s borders were in about 1776 when that area was annexed into NC.


71 posted on 04/02/2014 8:06:38 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: carriage_hill

Dang it... Those shaded areas are all places I’ve looked at for moving to.


72 posted on 04/02/2014 8:09:56 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (Tre Norner eg ber, binde til rota...)
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To: KoRn; 75thOVI; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
Thanks KoRn. Any volcanic eruption is a mole on the ass of the Earth. It can do damage locally, but is never, ever on a scale of the large impacts that have brought on extinctions of whole taxa. Krakatoa caused beautiful sunsets for a couple of years, whoa. The "year without a summer" has been attributed to an eruption of Tambora along with a few other eruptions, but it was also (weird coincidence!) a period of very low solar activity; monitoring the solar disk was pretty new then. [ * ]
With a Volcano of that size, you’d think we would have obvious warning signs of an imminent eruption in the way of seismic activity.
The only thing the specialists can do is say whether a volcano is active, dormant, or extinct, and they're usually right about it. When a volcano starts throwing out gas, building a dome, or belching molten material, they know, but of course, everyone else does too.

73 posted on 04/02/2014 8:26:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
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To: SunkenCiv; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

When I go, I want it to be quick. I don’t want to linger.


74 posted on 04/02/2014 8:31:26 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth. ~~ Phil Robertson, Duck Dynasty)
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To: carriage_hill

I for one vote for a Mesa Falls eruption in 100,000 years.


75 posted on 04/02/2014 8:31:34 AM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: Lake Living

That was my first thought...


76 posted on 04/02/2014 8:32:14 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth. ~~ Phil Robertson, Duck Dynasty)
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To: Monkey Face

I think that’s pretty much everyone’s dream. I wouldn’t want to go the way each of my parents went. But, as you know, we get what we get. :’(


77 posted on 04/02/2014 8:35:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
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To: Safrguns

I still think we’re gonna get wyrmwood on this side of the earth.


78 posted on 04/02/2014 8:55:13 AM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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To: A CA Guy

>>> Sure, and that is why there isn’t anything like this under China and other places where they have been for worse for generations?

Who knows what China faces... Who cares? I would be more concerned about where we live first.

Who knows when this supervolcano will erupt? Will it be before or during the tribulation? I don’t know.

I do know this... during the tribulation, the entire WORLD comes under God’s wrath... not just the US.

How much do you want to bet that this volcano does NOT erupt during that time?


79 posted on 04/02/2014 8:57:04 AM PDT by Safrguns (PM me if you like to play Minecraft!)
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To: Constitution Day

‘Think David Crocket was born in the then State of Franklin.


80 posted on 04/02/2014 9:18:08 AM PDT by onedoug
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