Scientists Fear "Supervolcano" Eruption As Earthquake Swarm Near Yellowstone Soars To 800

Zero Hedge ^ | Jun 29, 2017 4:55 AM | by Tyler Durden

[laplata]

That’s funny.

[mountn man]

That sucker Obama loves hot dogs.

Some people call them wieners... :)

[MarchonDC09122009]

BTW, how did you post a thread using ZeroHedge as a news source?
I just tried citing their story about Aetna leaving democrat run near bankrupt CT, and got a post refused message that said: Reason: ZeroHedge - No Thanks.

[laplata]

You’re right.

[Kozak]

Because Bill Nye was busy?

[tired&retired]

“That thing will blow when it is ready.”

Exactly....

And since the solar activity is coming into a solar minimum, I don’t expect any major CME blasts for the next few years to shake things up here on earth. 2020-2021 might be a different story though as we are coming into a coronal shift moving into reverse polarity with the earth. Solar Cycle 24( which we are now in) has been a very unusual pattern in comparison to the previous cycles.

[NorthMountain]

No, they're not "hedging their bets". They're telling you that both types of lava flows have happened in the past at Yellowstone, and that they're very different from each other.

From the USGS link:

The most likely type of volcanic eruption at Yellowstone would produce lava flows of either rhyolite or basalt. These would be significant and produce flows with volumes greater than 1 km3, but all of these would most certainly remain within the boundary of Yellowstone National Park.

Since Yellowstone’s last caldera-forming eruption 640,000 years ago, about 30 eruptions of rhyolitic lava flows have nearly filled the Yellowstone Caldera. Other flows of rhyolite and basalt (a more fluid variety of lava) also have been extruded outside the caldera.

[laplata]

That’s interesting information. Thanks.

I think it’s possible that we could experience an EMP generated by the sun-a CME. What are your thoughts?

[ridesthemiles]

Also-—ALL of Wyoming & All of Utah & most of Colorado.

That should royally piss off all the marijuana advocates......

[Ancesthntr]

“The rest of the planet, and this would especially be true for the northern hemisphere, would experience what is known as a “nuclear winter”. An extreme period of “global cooling” would take place, and temperatures around the world would fall by up to 20 degrees.”

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Wait, can’t we just start up all of our SUVs and raise the temperature? Or, alternatively, wouldn’t burning cities accomplish pretty much the same thing? Why all the doom and gloom, we have the solution already!

Seriously, if this happens, the entire world is screwed. Oh, humanity will certainly survive, just not most of the individuals comprising it. But there is just about nothing that any one person can do about it short of moving far, far away and stockpiling YUUUGE amounts of food and water (and where they go may be subject to other disasters, natural or man-made). IOW, keep on with your life, prepare for a few weeks of real bad trouble, but if it is more significant than that, bend over real far and kiss your Obama goodbye.

[tired&retired]

My personal thoughts... and only thoughts (not based upon evidence based research) are that the alignment of the earth’s magnetic north pole (representing the axis of the earth’s core) and the geographic north pole (representing the axis of the earth’s crust) are decreasing the dynamo output created by the friction of the two earth layers. The decreased dynamo output decreases our magnetosphere which protects us from the CME’s blasting at us from the sun.

The perfect storm is a weak magnetosphere at a time when the sun is at peak activity of a solar reversal when the shift is in opposition to the earth’s current polarity. I spoke with an astrophysicist who specializes in planetary field reversals and he told me that the mass of the earth is too great and thus stabilizes us from frequent shifts. I still have several research papers on this subject in my to be read stack.

If you track pole movement, the greatest opposition of the axis of the earth would create the strongest dipolar field and magnetosphere and cool the earth. Polar alignment then should cause global warming. Not sure what man is doing to cause polar alignment within the earth’s axis.

[laplata]

Thank you. You are very knowledgeable. Retired scientist?

I like your final sentence: “Not sure what man is doing to cause polar alignment within the earth’s axis”.

I am sure you were being facetious.

[tired&retired]

Earth’s magnetic field seems to be weakening and potentially migrating

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/north-pole-could-soon-drift-over-siberia-180952016/#CWmsPHluVk87m2jp.99

Earth’s magnetic field is weakening, and may be getting set to flip—in just a few thousand years north will become south and south will become north, LiveScience reports. But before it can do that, the magnetic field may wander around a bit. Right now, say scientists with the European Space Agency, the Earth’s magnetic north pole seems to be wandering over to Siberia.

The strength of the Earth’s magnetic field is always changing, with patches of stronger or weaker shielding found across the planet. Right now, the weakest spots hover above the Western Hemisphere, whereas places around the Indian Ocean have been growing stronger. The wobbles in magnetic field strength, says LiveScience, could mean that the planet’s magnetic field is entering a period of flux that will last up to a few thousand years and may ultimately end in a flipping of Earth’s magnetic poles.

Researchers with the European Space Agency noticed the abnormalities in the Earth’s magnetic field strength while analyzing data collected by magnetometers attached to a new three-satellite system called Swarm. Here’s LiveScience:

Previously, researchers estimated the field was weakening about 5 percent per century, but the new data revealed the field is actually weakening at 5 percent per decade, or 10 times faster than thought. As such, rather than the full flip occurring in about 2,000 years, as was predicted, the new data suggest it could happen sooner.

[tired&retired]

Illustration of the difference between geomagnetic poles (Nm and Sm) and geographical poles (Ng and Sg)

The geomagnetic poles are antipodal points where the axis of a best-fitting dipole intersects the Earth's surface. This dipole is equivalent to a powerful bar magnet at the center of the Earth, and it is this theoretical dipole that comes closer than any other to accounting for the magnetic field observed at the Earth's surface. In contrast, the actual Earth's magnetic poles are not antipodal—that is, they do not lie on a line passing through the center of the Earth.

Owing to motion of fluid in the Earth's outer core, the actual magnetic poles are constantly moving. However, over thousands of years their direction averages to the Earth's rotation axis. On the order of once every half a million years, the poles reverse (north changes place with south).

[tired&retired]

If the Earth's magnetic field were a perfect dipole then the field lines would be vertical at the Geomagnetic Poles, and they would coincide with the North and South magnetic poles. However, the approximation is imperfect, and so the Magnetic and Geomagnetic Poles lie some distance apart.

[Maelstrom]

That clip is actually wrong.

The ground will move up and crack the way dirt would separate if you inflated a balloon under it.

Then, as cohesion failed, the ground would FALL into the caldera, last, as it hit the molten magma, the dirt would cook off into gasses and ash and finally explode and smoke.

[tired&retired]

It has been long understood that dip poles migrate over time. In 1831, James Clark Ross located the north dip pole position in northern Canada. Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) tracked the North Magnetic Pole, which is slowly drifting across the Canadian Arctic, by periodically carrying out magnetic surveys to reestablish the Pole’s location from 1948 to 1994.

An international collaboration, led by a French fundraising association, Poly-Arctique, and involving NRCan, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and Bureau de Recherche Geologique et Miniere, added two locations of the North Magnetic Pole in 2001 and 2007. The most recent survey determined that the Pole is moving approximately north-northwest at 55 km per year.

[tired&retired]

Four North Poles?
There are four “North Poles” that can be defined in the Arctic:

+ Geographic North Pole (also known as True North): The northernmost point of the Earth as determined by the northern axis of its rotation. It has a known fixed position, at latitude 90° North.

+ Magnetic North Pole: A moving location where lines of magnetic force enter and exit the Earth vertically. The north point of a magnetic compass points to this pole. It’s location was discovered by James Clark Ross in 1831.

+ Geomagnetic North Pole: The pole of the Earth’s geomagnetic field that surrounds the Earth and extends into space as the magnetosphere. This is the centre of the region in which the Northern Lights can be seen.

+ North Pole of Inaccessibility: At approximately 85°N-175°W, this represents the point on the surface of the Arctic Ocean which is the farthest distance (about 1100 km / 684 miles) from any coastline.

[tired&retired]

The North Geomagnetic Pole is the north end of the axis of the magnetosphere, the geomagnetic field that surrounds the Earth and extends into space. It is the center of the region in which the Northern Lights or “Aurora Borealis” are seen.

[tired&retired]

North Pole Movement