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What Would An Eruption Of The Yellowstone Supervolcano Look Like?
Freedom Outpost ^ | April 1, 2014 | Michael Snyder

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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KEYWORDS: booboo; boring; catastrophe; catastrophism; disaster; earthquake; earthquakes; jellystone; supervolcano; volcano; yellowstone; yellowstonecaldera; yogibear
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Yellowstone has elements of other-worldly beauty, but there remains the inevitability of active eruption.


21 posted on 04/02/2014 6:12:24 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Safrguns

22 posted on 04/02/2014 6:14:04 AM PDT by ToxicMich ((If you are reading this, you are wasting your time. There is nothing here...))
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To: Safrguns

Mother Gaia...getting even with vegans...

the vegans will be out of cats in about

six months....burp....

Rolaids anyone ( ; )


23 posted on 04/02/2014 6:15:03 AM PDT by DavidLSpud (No Yoke !)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

LOL


24 posted on 04/02/2014 6:20:43 AM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: amnestynone; SunkenCiv

From what I understand, that thing blows every half million or so years, and it has been around six hundred thousand since the last one, so it’s actually ‘overdue’. That’s fairly frequent, given the time scale of Earth’s existence.

With a Volcano of that size, you’d think we would have obvious warning signs of an imminent eruption in the way of seismic activity. The entire Western US would have to be evacuated. 200 years of migration would have to be undone within a decade. Then again, people at ‘ground zero’ might be the lucky ones, as life all over the planet could be affected. Don’t know whether it would be a planet wide EXTINCTION Level Event, but it would certainly mean the end of life for humans in North America, for the most part. (I’m sure cockroaches and liberals would survive)


25 posted on 04/02/2014 6:20:46 AM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Matthew 24

King James Version (KJV)

24 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

25 Behold, I have told you before.

26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.


26 posted on 04/02/2014 6:20:59 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: carriage_hill
That second map is quite interesting.

As a native North Carolinian, I'm glad to see that we have finally annexed the western half of our state back from those upstarts in "Tennessee". I can't imagine why I missed that news!

;^)

27 posted on 04/02/2014 6:25:24 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Doctor 2Brains
Not too much I can do about an eruption. But I can position myself to take advantage of the benefits. Fortunes were made in the aftermath of the black plague.

/johnny

28 posted on 04/02/2014 6:27:43 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: KoRn

The last one to go off was in Indonesia about 100,000 years ago. The human race went nearly extinct. That was the second largest one on the planet. The largest one is you guessed it Yellowstone. I take some comfort in the fact that experts tell us that it only goes off every 700000 years so it sholdnt go off for another 60000 years. As you know experts are never wrong.


29 posted on 04/02/2014 6:28:15 AM PDT by amnestynone (Lindsey Graham is a feckless, duplicitous, treacherous, double dealing backstabbing corksucker.)
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To: Levy78; Safrguns

GOD HATES PHELPS!


30 posted on 04/02/2014 6:29:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Why would the eruption of Yellowstone be such a terrible thing?
  1. It would solve the problem of overpopulation that Paul Ehrlich et al complain about

  2. A "volcanic winter" would solve the problem of global warming.

  3. The massive destruction will end America's role as a superpower. "American exceptionalism" which Obama et al deride and apologize for will come to an end and America's involvement overseas will cease. The world will be a better place as Russia, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia rise to dominate world politics.

31 posted on 04/02/2014 6:30:17 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: KoRn

Goody, my property investments in Florida may really pay off!


32 posted on 04/02/2014 6:31:38 AM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: Safrguns

Gee, and what about the other times in the past that Yellowstone has erupted (about every 600,000 years)? Were mastadons being punished?


33 posted on 04/02/2014 6:32:00 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_iNElWB6eE


34 posted on 04/02/2014 6:32:20 AM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: 2nd amendment mama

Looks like we’re all gonna die!

Bush’s fault……………….


35 posted on 04/02/2014 6:33:06 AM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

I can draw early Social Security (age 62) in 7 more years. I hope it holds off at least that long.... I’d like to get something back from this government.


36 posted on 04/02/2014 6:37:38 AM PDT by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: ToxicMich
"Bored much he must be..."

It wouldn't be the first time our Creator has cleaned the lab.

37 posted on 04/02/2014 6:38:42 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: KoRn

It would definitely be a world wide mass extinction event. Mankind has been through at least one similar event. Not sure if those down under would survive longer as in an “On the Beach” scenario.

The upwelling is the warning. Eventually the caldera collapses into itself triggering the eruption.


38 posted on 04/02/2014 6:40:06 AM PDT by meatloaf (Impeach Obama. That's my New Year's resolution.)
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To: KoRn
From what I understand, that thing blows every half million or so years, and it has been around six hundred thousand since the last one, so it’s actually ‘overdue’.

There is no overdue about it. The earth doesn't necessarily hold to schedules we make for it. There are plenty of places on the earth where eruptions went on for millions of years and then just stopped.
39 posted on 04/02/2014 6:41:28 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Minorities and women will be hurt the most.


40 posted on 04/02/2014 6:43:06 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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