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Is the Yellowstone supervolcano close to erupting? Scientists detect more than 200 earthquakes
www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | 02/19/2018 | By Cheyenne Macdonald

Posted on 02/20/2018 9:59:10 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: jerod
But I have read that this ‘super volcano’ only goes off every million years or so

The last few eruptions have been roughly 600,000 to 700,000 years apart, and the last was 630,000 years ago.

If it erupts next year, it won't be early; if it erupts in 10,000 years, it won't be late.

21 posted on 02/20/2018 10:24:48 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Red Badger

Yellowstone can’t blow; EPA would never allow it. The last time it erupted, it blew a big hole in the Rocky Mountains. Plus much of the affected area is National Parks and National Forests. Of course, if it disobeys the regs and erupts anyhow, the dems will blame it on Trump’s deregulation.


22 posted on 02/20/2018 10:27:25 AM PST by sphinx
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To: DuncanWaring

That about sums it up.

The damage zones vary widely from the past eruptions. The Ash and Kill Zone area from the map posted on the prior page are just wide approximations. Could be somewhat less or a lot larger with variable shape.

If this goes, I will attribute it to excesses of the Obama years but it will change all of our concerns.


23 posted on 02/20/2018 10:30:00 AM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: G Larry

I’m in the kill zone for CW 2 as well.


24 posted on 02/20/2018 10:31:21 AM PST by Comment Not Approved (When bureaucrats outlaw hunting, outlaws will hunt bureaucrats.)
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To: Red Badger

It’s like the street preacher saying, “The world will end tomorrow!”

Or on a side tangent, my favorite line from a song - “Industrial Disease” by Dire Straits...

“Two men say they’re Jesus - one of them must be wrong...”


25 posted on 02/20/2018 10:35:15 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: John W

Oh yay...

I’m smack dab in the Secondary Ash Zone.

Boy, that’ll be fun...


26 posted on 02/20/2018 10:36:03 AM PST by MplsSteve
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To: Red Badger

27 posted on 02/20/2018 10:36:57 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Red Badger

These stories will continue for centuries so they can say, “See, we were among the first to warn Y’all...”


28 posted on 02/20/2018 10:37:51 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: catnipman
WHEN this thing finally does erupt, it’s gong to obliterate the U.S. nearly coast-to-coast ...

I've got my lawn chair and a good sized Maker's Mark at the ready to enjoy the show. Hopefully I'll get a few shots down...

29 posted on 02/20/2018 10:40:32 AM PST by COBOL2Java (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen)
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To: Comment Not Approved

Kill zone here.”

Lucky. We’ll die a slow painful death.


30 posted on 02/20/2018 10:42:59 AM PST by Mercat
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To: catnipman
In a state of Fear.
Asteroids, AIDS, Suitcase nukes, Swine Flu, Muzzies are coming, active shooters, Zika, West Nile, Solar flares, super volcano, global warming/ozone hole/climate change/climate deviation/new ice age...on and on and on.

I believe these sorts of stories (misinformation campaigns) are designed to keep Americans off balance and worrying rather than seeing the true picture.

Just my take.

31 posted on 02/20/2018 10:49:13 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: servantboy777

You might enjoy this data showing births and deaths in real time. Seems like people are being born more rapidly than are dying. There are about 7 billion humans breathing earth’s oxygen right now!!!!

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/a-real-time-map-of-births-and-deaths/280609/


32 posted on 02/20/2018 10:54:59 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: Red Badger
Is the Yellowstone supervolcano close to erupting?

Yes, it most likely is. My "sources" tell me that an eruption is scheduled for the second Tuesday of next week.

33 posted on 02/20/2018 11:30:39 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: servantboy777

You left “acid rain” off your list. An oldie but a goodie!


34 posted on 02/20/2018 11:32:05 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: John W

That doesn’t look too bad. It barely touches my Tennessee international ocean front seaport that will open any day now as global warming raises the sea level.


35 posted on 02/20/2018 11:33:12 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: John W
You call that a natural disaster? Almost everyone east of the Mississippi will have to wait around to be killed by a different cataclysm...
36 posted on 02/20/2018 11:34:13 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: WayneS
Yes, it most likely is. My "sources" tell me that an eruption is scheduled for the second Tuesday of next week.


37 posted on 02/20/2018 11:40:09 AM PST by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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To: John W

Don’t know if this would be applicable, but using NukeMap, I detonated a 100MT device 25 meters above ground, making a crater 2.5 KM diameter by 420m deep.

Prevailing winds took the fallout east north east across Montana, North Dakota, and into Canada west of Winnipeg. I assume that the volcanic ash fallout plume would take a similar direction.

The map does not seem to take into account prevailing winds.


38 posted on 02/20/2018 11:41:22 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: MplsSteve
I’m smack dab in the Secondary Ash Zone. Boy, that’ll be fun...

Me, too. I'm probably a bit rusty but I did get some practice with Mount St. Helen's ash.

39 posted on 02/20/2018 11:44:28 AM PST by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: CommerceComet

I’d worry more about the New Madrid. A while back i was a map that showed the result of an 8.1 or so on the NM. I’d be 300 ft underwater but my sister would have beach front property near Omaha.

They had a map but it has been taken down of that. I wish I had printed off a copy.


40 posted on 02/20/2018 12:04:54 PM PST by oldasrocks (rump)
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