http://www.komonews.com/news/national/Swarm-of-earthquakes-shakes-Yellowstone-224773612.html
Not many noticed since the park was closed for the shutdowns. Some Yellowstone conspiracy types even suggested the shutdown was a coverup for the swarm, which I thought was pretty funny. :)
That’s a lot of gas buildup.
WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!!
I say we take off and nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
I’m sorry but your super volcano does not have permission to erupt. It would kill all of the grizzlies and they are a protected species under Federal law.
We can fix this, we need to drill multiple deep “wells” to harvest geothermal energy and harvest the excess heat energy and gas wells to relieve the excess pressure.
Below: yellow circles are the previous locations.
Driving from West Yellowstone down the Snake River Valley makes the thing seem really large.
Surely, surely the PhD, 6-figure superheros as the EPA can put their collective heads together to solve this...I figure if 1000 Priuses drive around the volcano for 10 hrs straight, and utter, “Ummmmm” and spin around some crystals and vibrating rocks and smoke some weed, the volcano will listen to their pleas.
Apology for inserting something irrelevant, but reading about the earthquakes and Prof Bob Smith’s name made me free associate to the Freeper Wobbly Bob, but looking him up reveals we haven’t heard from him for almost two years. I miss him, as I do other Freepers who suddenly drop from the forum without a trace, I hope he is doing well.
Yellowstone volcanos explodes!!!! Women, children and minorities hit hardest!!!! Film at ELEVEN!!!
Well heck, let’s just start fracking there. Pump the molten rock up and make bricks.
An even more troubling spot is in Africa’s Great Rift Valley where a 500 Cubic Mile magma chamber his been discovered. The Rift Valley is one of the most active and continually active zones in the world. The existence of this chamber complicates the usual definition of a rift and may lend some further possibilities to such as the Deccan and Siberian traps.
Everyone left in Wyoming, Idaho and everywhere else east of that region, should get out as fast as possible.
What you really should be thinking about is what happens when all those nuclear power plant reactors and their spent fuel pools all go bang from lack of cooling. Really think about it now and tell me that they will be able to maintain cooling on dozens of these things with power out and transportation impossible. And everything buried in Ash. Look what happened to world from just one power plant in Japan. In this case there will be dozens. And it will be even far more impossible to deal with.
The NY post said it is between 125 and 185 billion cubic miles of molten rock.
wow, we really need Obama’s “Affordable Care Act” in case this Yellowstone thingy blows up!!
What’s interesting is Yellowstone Lake is rising. While out on a visit there a couple years ago they pointed out how once submerged boats are now on dried lands. This is caused by a growing volcanic gas pocket underneath the lake pushing the lake upwards. To get the full effect of what this super-volcano would do, one just has to look at a map of the US and see how it changed the geographic landscape west of the Mississippi.