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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Why wouldn’t lots of people survive in the east. Plenty of land to farm. It would be bad but the world has survived multiples of these. Also it has smaller events more frequently doesn’t have to be the big one.
I want to go peacefully in my sleep, like my grandpa, not screaming in terror like his passengers...
You have the free will to refuse the gift of life at any time. But it appears to me that all things that have the gift cling to it even blades of grass and microbes.
A couple of years ago I read a novel by Harry Turtledove about this event.
;’)
The world survived many VEL’s of 10 or more, but humanity barely survived one ... and that was 2800 times greater than the Mt St Helens eruption. This one could be bigger still as it historically has been ...
Lots of good farmland will do you went there is no sun for years, and the temperature drops an average of 38 degrees ...
The little eruptions of Yellowstone are not what the watchers are worried about ... it is over due, not for a little eruption, but a big one ...
I don’t know why but that made me laugh out loud!
Poor mastodons! :(
LOL
No one knows what will occur next, small or large. Further, the super volcano has erupted before and we are here and so are many species.
Will the sun be blocked for years so that no crops can grow?
Doubtful but even then there is nothing to stop power generation, greenhouses with artificial sunlight, etc over most of the planet.
Anything can happen I’m not convinced humanity let’s say in the East or in South America would be wiped out even by a super volcano here.
I guess I will my wife buy a small ranch.in Mexico.
Would there be more death than those through Obamacare in the future?
That's why I live in rural Idaho. BTT
Probably.
I was thinking more on the lines of the Amazon, or African jungles, perhaps some small Eastern Pacific Islands. Idaho and most of the US would be tostatdos.
Green houses can only feed a few, and in the ensuing panic to find food, they will be destroyed or plundered. And all of them rely on a constant source of electricity - where will the fuel come from, who will mine the coal, pump the natural gas? Wood will have to be chopped by hand as gasoline for chainsaws would be soon exhausted.
Natural air circulation will bring the stratospheric dust cloud over even the southern hemisphere. Winter will fall everywhere. High temperatures will range in the 40s in the summer, and the minuses in the winter.
Keep in mind, it will take who and whatever survives hundreds or thousands of years to recover ... if at all. An Age will have passed and a new one begun.
I disagree. We have tech, AND we have massive stores of food. Yes, it WILL be maximal suckage. But the human race will survive. The amusing part will be the war between the Russians and the Chinese. as the glaciers start advancing. . .
If it would get rid of the Democrats I could live with it. :-)
Not trying to be one of those guys. But a caldera explosion would make Krakatoa sound like a lady finger. I am not worried about it happening; but the result would be cubic yards of ash deep from Wyoming to Chicago, then just feet of it on the East Coast.
:’) So, it’ll be called “ash stone” or “gray stone” after that...
It would be called the Grand Canyon.
Good catch.
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