Warning signs that Yellowstone may Erupt

Joe For America ^ | on Feb 27, 2014 | Joe For America

[Lazamataz]

Some worrying developments are taking place at the Super Volcano located beneath Yellowstone National Park; the kind of developments that were seen shortly before other volcanoes erupted. Not only was there a sudden rise in the elevation of the ground, and development of new cracks, but a gas called Helium-4, a very rare type of Helium, has begun coming out of the surface. It is the presence of this gas that has scientists quite concerned. If the Yellowstone Super Volcano were to erupt, it would be 2,000 times bigger than the eruption of Mount St. Helens in the 1980′s. Everything within 500 miles would be dead or destroyed within minutes, 2/3rds of the entire United States would be covered in volcanic ash and the climate of the entire planet would cool within a month. On top of that, just this past week, the largest earthquake in the US took place just a few miles from Yellowstone proving hot magma is on the move. Here’s what has scientists concerned:

Since late summer 2013, the Yellowstone GPS network has tracked a small ” ground deformation episode” in north-central Yellowstone National Park.

During the past five months, the NRWY GPS station has recorded about 3.5 cm (1.4 in) of uplift (the ground is rising) and about 1 cm (0.4 in) of southeastward ground movement, relative to a stable reference station north of the Park.

Measurements from other GPS stations in northern Yellowstone show smaller displacements, forming a circular pattern of deformation (circular — as in the round mouth of a volcano) consistent with a minor pressurization (building-up underground), about 6 to 10 km (4-6 miles) deep, near Norris Junction.

What has scientists very concerned is that Yellowstone has suddenly begun emitting massive amounts of Helium-4. Helium-4 seems to be the predictor of activity, as proved with other volcanos.

[Two Kids' Dad]

California needs more FReepers. You guys are all welcome to come here and improve the ratio.

[Two Kids' Dad]

The caldera would erupt like a bat out of hell.

(cheesy, I know, but I appreciate your moniker)

[driftdiver]

I thought you might have that version trademarked,

[who knows what evil?]

Yellowstone finally blows or complete and utter financial collapse or nuclear annihilation from the Russians or Chinese...place your bets, ladies and gentlemen.

[COBOL2Java]

What has scientists very concerned is that Yellowstone has suddenly begun emitting massive amounts of Helium-4.

Hey! Was Wayne Newton born near Yellowstone?

[no-to-illegals]

My family doesn’t like my jokes either, so that places you in excellent company. {HUGS} dragnet2.

[teeman8r]

and there would be lots of ham to eat... along with venison, cattle, bald eagle, grizzly,... all very well “cooked”

[PIF]

“... the volcanic ash would in some places be several feet deep.”

Think rock or cement, not leaf ash ...

and:
How strong is your roof?

[Cyber Liberty]

I’m sure some pretty smart people plotted that map, but I just don’t believe it. It’s going to depend heavily on the prevailing winds at the time of the eruption. I don’t see the Southwest taking the initial cloud that heavily.

Eventually, no matter what the local winds are like, the dust cloud will cover the entire N. Hemisphere. A very large number of people will die in the years following such an event. I hope I’m dead of old age before this firecracker goes off.

[PATRIOT1876]

Have the Climate Nazis blamed this on hard-working people for driving their cars to work to make an honest living yet?

[PIF]

You’ll hear it long before you see it.

[tsomer]

if there was a very real indication it was going to erupt there would be a MASSIVE lockdown of information that would be released, by POTUS order

Depending on how long they considered it imminent, politicians would react by acting in certain predictable patterns:

They'd spend money like they never expect to have to repay it.
They'd buy as many bullets as they could, arming all of the agencies they have under control to the teeth.
They'd throw a lot of money to friends they think could help get them to safety.
They'd get themselves houses in places that would be least affected, like Hawaii.
They'd ignore the small stuff--foreign policy, budgets, etc, since "what difference does it make?"

[PATRIOT1876]

*Bush.
Behemoth Underground, Serious Harm.
Bush.*

I hate to mention it, since the NSA, Janeane Garofalo, or the “Please put us into the Gulag” crowd at Freeper Madness might see this and it gives them ideas, but I can't resist.

What if the econazis say this is caused by fracking?
The same lunatics that think fire will come out of your faucet because they saw it in a movie, just might be obtuse enough to believe it!

[citizen]

It’d be cool to watch
if a eruption just didn’t get one dead.

How'd that work out for Woody Harrelson in '2012' the movie?

[JohnBovenmyer]

Appease Pele. Thrown the highest ranking Hawaiian you can find into the volcano.

[depressed in 06]

I am going need more ammunition.

[COBOL2Java]

Appease Pele. Thrown the highest ranking Hawaiian you can find into the volcano.

Throw Michael Moore in. He'd plug the hole.

[blam]

"Not good. Not good at all. If that sucker does ever go we could have something akin to a nuclear winter in large parts of the country."

Don't kid yourself. The whole world would be severely affected:

Late Pleostocene Human Population Bottlenecks. . . (Toba)

"The last glacial period was preceded by 1000 years of the coldest temperatures of the Late Pleistocene, apparently caused by the eruption of the Mount Toba volcano. The six year long volcanic winter and 1000-year-long instant Ice Age that followed Mount Toba's eruption may have decimated Modern Man's entire population. Genetic evidence suggests that Human population size fell to about 10,000 adults between 50 and 100 thousand years ago. The survivors from this global catastrophy would have found refuge in isolated tropical pockets, mainly in Equatorial Africa. Populations living in Europe and northern China would have been completely eliminated by the reduction of the summer temperatures by as much as 12 degrees centigrade."

[blam]

"So which is the worst state to be and which would be the “relatively” safest?"

No state will be safe.

The Hobbits here on Flores Island, Indonesia survived the Toba supervolcano eruption 70,000+ years ago. They were very close too...the winds were blowing away from them.

[Scoutmaster]

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