Posted on 05/02/2019 5:51:47 PM PDT by SJackson
YELLOWSTONE volcano could be about to erupt and challenge humanity’s existence as a spate of mini-quakes have been felt around the fearsome caldera.
During the month of April, a total of 63 earthquakes struck around the Wyoming based supervolcano. All of the tremors were relatively small, with the largest registering at 2.6 on the Richter scale, hitting on April 29. But experts have warned that it is not necessarily about the strength of an earthquake around a volcano, but more the quantity of them.
Some scientists believe that tremors around a volcano could be a sign that it might blow.
Portland State University Geology Professor Emeritus Scott Burns said a spate of small tremors around a volcano usually signifies that magma and gasses beneath the surface are beginning to navigate their exit.
He said: “If you get swarms under a working volcano, the working hypothesis is that magma is moving up underneath there.”
However, others disagree about whether an earthquake swarm near a volcano could be a sign of things to come.
Jamie Farrell at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, believes this is just part of the natural cycle for Yellowstone volcano, saying: “Earthquake swarms are fairly common in Yellowstone.
“There is no indication that this swarm is related to magma moving through the shallow crust.”
The Yellowstone Caldera supervolcano last erupted 70,000 years ago.
If the volcano were to erupt it would kill an estimated 87,000 people immediately and make two-thirds of the USA immediately uninhabitable.
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If Yellowstone has a mega-eruption I won’t be posting here any more.
(and, no, that’s not a good reason to hope for it.) :)
Crispy critters.....
Nah. It’s a bathroom...unless there are a bunch of urns or kegs that fit in those holes. To think that despite being invented thousands of years ago, widespread use of indoor plumbing is a relatively new phenomenon, even in the USA.
*ping*
Actually closer to 630,000 years.
Divert! Divert! Divert!
Trump is getting too much good news! Russia Narrative is on life support we need something!
How about a end of the world volcano eruption?
Can we blame it on Trump?
Don’t try to feed the “buffalo”.....
Do you know if the Great Salt Lake is one of the old calderas?
They know exactly when it’s going to blow. They’re just not telling you.
This is the USA where English is spoken. Cauldron is appropriate.
I heard the Russians planted a nuclear bomb there.
Yellowstone volcano: Earthquake swarm hits deadly caldera which could be sign of ERUPTION
Or not.
Openings make sense now. I remember some less savory establishments which probably served wine too. Less savory by our standards I suppose.
Wait, Beto said we had 10 more years, AOC said we had 12 more years! I’m too young to die! /sarc.
Looks like a shitter to me.
We ate buffalo... and elk...
Tween Mount Saint Helens in this cauldron up there in Yellowstone I can only imagine that the Sasquatch are getting a little peeved of relocating every 30 years or so.
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